Two new strategies show promise in battling malaria, a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, mostly children ages five and under in sub-Saharan Africa.Both new strategies involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria...
The once sleepy world of corporate philanthropy has been perking up lately. An older model of giving—which often involved cutting lots of checks to local charities without asking many questions—is giving way to a more focused and strategic approach...
While evaluation seems like work that requires more resources (dollars and staff) than you have, foundations of all sizes – especially small-staffed ones – can position themselves for successful evaluation of their impact.
Cofounder and former Executive Director of Young Invincibles Jen Mishory and Skadden Fellow and attorney Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation, a leading progressive public policy think tank with offices in New York and Washington, D.C.
The News Integrity Initiative at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism announced $1.8 million in grants that aim to improve people’s lives by fostering trust between newsrooms and the public and nurturing constructive, inclusive community...
New York's health care spending overall and per capita are among the highest in the nation. Health care expenditures were the second highest in the country, totaling $193 billion in 2014, up from $165 billion in 2009. A new data snapshot from...
United Hospital Fund paid tribute tonight at its annual gala to leaders in philanthropy, banking, and health care—James H. Simons, PhD, Priscilla Almodovar, Robert Gore, MD, and James R. Tallon, Jr.—in recognition of their important contributions to...
Day after day, month after month, crisis upon crisis comes. Just last month, I used this space to talk with you about what has been learned over the years from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy that could be applied to Harvey. This month we must face...
Could the solutions to some of America’s most vexing social issues originate in a faraway land? Although social challenges in education, health, youth engagement, and community development play out differently in locations and contexts across the...
The Kessler Foundation, of East Hanover, NJ, has just awarded Reeves-Reed Arboretum a grant for $8,000 towards the completion of the first phase of this ambitious project.
The Wallace Foundation’s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: Pathways, Partnerships and Fidelity,” is the latest entry in what the Wallace Foundation itself calls the “field of scale-up studies.”
International grantmakers often find ourselves working in areas where laws and conditions for grantmaking are challenging to navigate. Recent times have seen an increase in laws and regulations in many areas that are unwelcoming to philanthropy and...
The UJA-Federation of New York has announced a $20 million legacy gift from the Jack S. & Shirley M. Silver Foundation in support of the organization's Jewish Day Camp Centennial Signature Initiative.
For the first time in several years, the Ford Foundation disclosed the investment performance of its $12.1 billion endowment, saying it generated a return of 7 percent in 2016. By comparison, the median return of more than 5,700 foundations that...
The Ford Foundation today announced 25 new Art of Change fellowships that will support visionary artists and cultural leaders in creating powerful works of art that help advance freedom, justice, and inclusion, and strengthen our democracy.