The Equal Justice Initiative will open the nation’s first memorial dedicated to lynching victims and a new museum dedicated to slavery on April 26 in Montgomery.
Members of Prosperity Together, a nonpartisan coalition of 29 public women’s foundations dedicated to empowering low-income women and their families, are joining together for a #GivingTuesday campaign.
The Good Jobs Index is a new data platform that provides a window into the shifting realities of employment opportunity in the US, including the finding that two-thirds of states have added good jobs for workers without a bachelor’s degree.
Relationships Matter: Program Officers, Grantees, and the Keys to Success sheds light on what constitutes a strong funder–grantee relationship, what nonprofits say it takes for funders to foster such relationships, and the crucial role that program officers play in the equation.
Today, World Wildlife Fund and the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, unveil results from a set of projects demonstrating innovative strategies aimed at reducing food waste in the hotel...
This is a follow-on session to the event earlier this year, “Helping Foster Care Youth Succeed: Skills and strategies that support the transition to adulthood.
Ebony will honor Dr. Jackson as a Community Crusader for his work as a strategic leader in philanthropy and a staunch advocate for public school students
With a new round of grants, the philanthropic arm of Aetna is getting out of doctors’ offices and into the neighborhoods where Americans live, work and play to improve health outcomes. The foundation pledged $2 million in grants to 25 community-...
The Century Foundation (TCF) has obtained new data from the U.S. Department of Education about nearly 100,000 “borrower defense claims”—applications for loan relief from students who maintain that they have been defrauded or misled by federally...
As funders we talk a lot about inclusive philanthropy. But how often these days do we get to experience – from the grantee perspective – what inclusion looks and feels like?
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Invites Applications for its Eighth Class of Macy Faculty Scholars The Macy Faculty Scholars Program is designed to identify and nurture the careers of promising educational innovators in medicine and...
A new study shows that today's preretirement generation already has more health issues and health-related limits on their lives than prior generations did when they were in their late 50s.
A new study shows that today's preretirement generation already has more health issues and health-related limits on their lives than prior generations did when they were in their late 50s.
Mr. Rockefeller, who gave away $20 million to $30 million a year in the last 10 years of his long life, found another way to use philanthropy to make a difference — a big difference, if the sales at Christie’s bring in the $700 million that some...