Ford Foundation’s President to Depart in September
Release Date:
03/06/2013
An examination of Luis Ubiñas' tenure as President.
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Recent News
Ford Foundation President to Step Down
Release Date:
03/06/2013
President Luis Ubiñas has announced that he will leave his position in September of this year.
Infusion Bolsters Nonprofit
Release Date:
03/11/2013
Community Preservation Corp., a 38-year-old nonprofit lender, has received a $250 million infusion of capital from Citigroup to revive the organization and allow it to refocus on its core mission of rehabilitating affordable housing in lower-income...
Providence Wins Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Cities Challenge
Release Date:
03/13/2013
The Providence Talks project, which will help low-income parents improve their kids’ language skills, secured the $5 million top prize for Providence, R.I., in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayor’s Challenge.
The Met and Crystal Bridges to Share a Trumbull Portrait
Release Date:
03/14/2013
A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, the celebrated Revolutionary War-era painter, has been given by its owner, Credit Suisse, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas in a 50-50...
The Boom in Charitable Funds
Release Date:
01/23/2013
2012 was a record year for donor-advised charitable gift funds at Fidelity Investments and Vanguard Group.
Critics of State’s Campaign Finance Laws Seek Philanthropists’ Help
Release Date:
01/24/2013
Representatives from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Open Society Foundations attended a meeting organized by the Piper Fund to enlist support for changing New York’s campaign finance laws.
Salk Institute Receives $42 Million From Helmsley Charitable Trust to Create Research Center for Genomic Medicine
Release Date:
01/24/2013
The Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine will enable scientists in a range of fields to explore how certain cellular pathways serve as lynchpins for chronic diseases, which could lead to new therapy targets.
Russia's Real Friends in the West
Release Date:
01/27/2013
An op-ed by Deana Arsenian, Vice President for International Program and Program Director for Russia and Eurasia at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
With Latest $350 Million Gift to Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg Surpasses $1 Billion in Giving to Alma Mater
Release Date:
01/29/2013
The gift includes $250 million in support of a $1 billion effort to facilitate cross-disciplinary work across the university. Mayor Bloomberg, who earned his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1964, made his first donation, a...
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