Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup
Release Date:
08/01/2017
The Rockefeller Foundation is helping to finance a startup hoping to build exchange-traded funds for nonprofit organizations and direct the profits back to their causes.
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Release Date:
08/01/2017
In honor of their extensive support and contributions to the advancement of nursing, Frontier Nursing University awarded honorary doctorate degrees to philanthropists Barbara and Donald Jonas.
Atlantic Philanthropies Funds New “Leadership In Action” Program to Improve Healthcare for the Most Vulnerable
Release Date:
08/01/2017
The Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation has launched a new, year-long program called Leadership in Action to connect staff at state-based consumer health advocacy organizations with well-known and distinguished senior leaders.
Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/01/2017
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Oct
2017
Building Racial Equity with Race Forward
Friday, October 27, 2017 (All day)
Philanthropy New York, in partnership with Race Forward, presents Building Racial Equity with Race Forward , a six-month peer cohort learning experience designed to help foundation leaders gain the tools and resources to work...
NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation
Release Date:
07/31/2017
The NoVo Foundation is seeking Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for its Radical Hope Fund to support efforts that are bold and imaginative, focused on building the required movements, with efforts that will springboard communities forward in this moment of...
Can Humanities Grants to Universities Be a Bridge to Something Bigger? Mellon Foundation Backs Humanities
Release Date:
07/31/2017
The humanities are on a roll. Perhaps it's some perverse byproduct of the Trump effect, but recent developments suggest that funders increasingly view the humanities as a concept that can benefit individual communities, job seekers and society as a...
Ford Foundation: On Privilege - Why Discomfort Is A Sign Of Progress
Release Date:
07/31/2017
I could not stop thinking about my initial discomfort. It nagged at me. What had caused this feeling of displacement? This was not my first time in an elite space. And I'm actually accustomed to feeling like I don’t fit in with those kinds of...
Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics First Annual Meeting
Release Date:
07/31/2017
The Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics will hold its first Annual Meeting at the Simons Foundation on September 14 & 15, 2017. Spaces with special holonomy are of intrinsic interest in both mathematics...
More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers
Release Date:
07/28/2017
Three years ago, just four cities affiliated with 100 Resilient Cities employed a "chief resilience officer." As of late July, there were officially 79 within the initiative’s namesake cohort.
The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion
Release Date:
07/28/2017
The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation funds $150,000 pilot to pair Baltimore police officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the throes of a mental health crisis in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Adds Two Staff, Promotes One
Release Date:
07/27/2017
The Brooklyn Community Foundation is pleased to welcome two new members to the Foundation's team - Andrea MacDonald as manager of donor services and Chelsea Smith as a program officer, as well as announce the promotion of LIane Stegmaier.
Doris Duke Foundation Awards 17 Physician Scientists DDCF’s 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards
Release Date:
07/27/2017
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced the 17 junior physician scientists receiving the 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards of $495,000 each over three years.
Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures
Release Date:
07/27/2017
The Folger Shakespeare Library has been awarded a four-year, $1.5 million grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a collaborative research project, Before Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures.
Citi Foundation Helps NYC Nonprofits & Cornell University Prepare Underserved Youth for Foodservice, Customer Service, & Hospitality Jobs
Release Date:
07/27/2017
The nonprofit STRIVE New York has broadened its impact on urban youth unemployment by partnering with eCornell and local city organizations to launch Serve UP Harlem, an initiative to prepare 18- to 24-year-olds for career paths in food service,...
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Aug
2017
What is Climate's Impact on Migration? A Look Beyond the Headlines - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR
Wednesday, August 9, 2017 -
3:00pm to 4:15pm
The terms ‘climate migration’ and ‘climate refugee’ are increasingly seen across headlines. Less clear is how, why, and to what extent the impacts of climate change actually drive migration and influence the experience of migrants and refugees...
Nathan Cummings, Ford, Heron & Others Are Leaders in the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance
Release Date:
07/27/2017
The U.S. Impact Investing Alliance announced the launch of its expanded network of impact investing leaders dedicated to advancing this growing market.
Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published
Release Date:
07/26/2017
Current scientific research demonstrates that the first three years of a child’s life are the most important in terms of brain development. If we want children to start school prepared to learn, and to succeed, then we must support young children...
Sarah Eagle Heart to Receive 2017 American Express NGen Leadership Award
Release Date:
07/26/2017
Sarah Eagle Heart, Oglala Lakota, CEO of Native Americans in Philanthropy is the recipient of the 2017 American Express NGen Leadership Award, honoring her as an emerging leader under age 40 who has already demonstrated significant impact in...
Seeking Just & Sustainable Communities: Surdna Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $14 Million
Release Date:
07/26/2017
The New York City-based Surdna Foundation awarded 72 grants totaling more than $14 million to organizations working to foster just and sustainable communities in the United States.