Measuring Staff Diversity at America's Art Museums
Release Date:
06/26/2018
In this short video, Westermann and Ford Foundation President Darren Walker discuss why the effort to survey art museums on the diversity of their employees was critical.
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Fitting The Image To The Spirit
Release Date:
06/26/2018
Yvonne Moore, Principal philanthropic advisor, Moore Philanthropy writes "If a picture is worth a thousand words, what exactly was the magazine trying to convey with this graphic? A typical grant recipient? Poverty, instability or transience?...
Jessie Smith Noyes Report Finds Gaps, Opportunities in Impact Investment Field
Release Date:
06/26/2018
The report, Building Power Across the Impact Investment Field (29 pages, PDF), highlights findings from the foundation's seven-month-long search for a mission-driven investment advisor as part of an effort to better align its endowment with its...
Report Funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation Shows Many Aging NYC Parks Have Infrastructure Problems
Release Date:
06/26/2018
The 53-page report, released by the Center for an Urban Future, found that the average NYC park is 73 years old. (The oldest parks in each borough are Bowling Green in Manhattan, Commodore Bark Park in Brooklyn, Drew Playground in the Bronx, Daniel...
Novo Foundation's Push For Bottom-Up Power
Release Date:
06/26/2018
The Radical Hope Fund embodies NoVo’s bottom-up approach, seeking to elevate leaders in the communities to which funding is flowing.
Seven Performing Artists Win 2018 Doris Duke Artist Awards
Release Date:
06/26/2018
In a short film released today by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the foundation’s president and CEO, Edward P. Henry, was joined by several previous Doris Duke Artist Award winners in announcing the 2018 recipients of the $275,000 award.
With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT To Conduct an Environmental Scan of Open Source Publishing
Release Date:
06/25/2018
With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT To Conduct an Environmental Scan of Open Source Publishing The MIT Press has announced the award of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a landscape analysis...
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats
Release Date:
06/25/2018
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind...
A Look At How Surdna Foundation is Backing Water Infrastructure in American Cities
Release Date:
06/25/2018
For Surdna’s environment program, that focus is uniquely all about infrastructure, including sustainable and equitable water infrastructure in American cities, ranging from Los Angeles to New Orleans.
Research Funded By The Commonwealth Fund Shows Overdose Risk Quintuples With Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use
Release Date:
06/22/2018
In the first 90 days of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use, the risk of opioid-related overdose increases five-fold compared to opioid-only use among Medicare recipients, according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh School of...
Rockefeller President Cleared After Review Triggered by Employee Complaint
Release Date:
06/22/2018
The Rockefeller Foundation earlier this year hired outside counsel to review internal complaints alleging that President Rajiv Shah mismanaged staff and steered contracts and grants to individuals with close professional and personal ties to him...
United Hospital Fund Releases Report Finding Wide Variation in Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescribing for NYS Medicaid Patients
Release Date:
06/22/2018
An analysis of potentially inappropriate antibiotic prescribing patterns among New York State’s Medicaid population, released today by United Hospital Fund’s Medicaid Institute, found wide variations in prescribing rates based on patient age, gender...
With Support from The Andrus Family Fund, Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 Cohort
Release Date:
06/21/2018
Firelight Media, the production company that documentarian Stanley Nelson (“Tell Them We Are Rising”) co-founded 18 years ago, created the Impact Producer Fellowship last year to train social justice-minded artists and activists of color. The...
Through Its Piper Fund Initiative, The Proteus Fund Works to Educate Communities About Judicial Independence
Release Date:
06/21/2018
Community support for independent judiciaries is key to their continued development and existence. However, this support can be a challenge to build, given the political and social diversity of individuals and organizations whose lives are directly...
Rockefeller Foundation, FAO Supporting Africa to Halve Food Loss
Release Date:
06/21/2018
Food that ‘disappears' from the food chain after harvest owing to spoilage could feed an estimated 48 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa. A project by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the African Union and The Rockefeller Foundation...
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Advancing Racial Equity for Corporate Success
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10:30am to 12:30pm
By 2044, America will be a majority people of color nation. Yet, there are enormous inequities that people of color face in health, wealth, employment opportunities, etc. These opposing forces of rising diversity amidst persistent exclusion form a...
PNY Members Are Taking Action on Justice Summit Learning
Release Date:
06/20/2018
"The Nation's Eyes on Rikers" is an easy-to-scan report featuring strategic takeaways from the Funders Summit on Justice Reform, an overview of the justice funding landscape, appraisals of potential funding strategies and additional resources for...
Unbound Philanthropy and OSF Among U.S. Foundations Taking Action to Address Refugee Crisis, Report Finds
Release Date:
06/20/2018
In response to the global refugee crisis and the U.S. government's increasingly hard-line immigration policies, foundations are taking action to support refugees and asylum seekers, a report from Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees...
Weinberg Foundation Announces Darius Graham as New Program Director
Release Date:
06/20/2018
The Weinberg Foundation welcomes Darius Graham as the Foundation’s newest program director. Graham will be responsible for refining and communicating the Foundation's place-based philanthropic strategy for Baltimore, working across sectors to...
With Support From the Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Genetic, Environmental, Microbial (Gem) Project Has Reached Its Goal of 5,000 Participants
Release Date:
06/20/2018
After 10 years and a worldwide effort, Crohn's and Colitis Canada is pleased to announce that the world-renowned Genetic, Environmental, Microbial (GEM) Project has reached its goal of 5,000 participants. Launched in 2008 at Mount Sinai Hospital in...