Scientists Supported by Simons Foundation Determine How Birds Soar to Great Heights
Release Date:
08/12/2016
Migratory birds often use warm, rising atmospheric currents to gain height with little energy expenditure when flying over long distances.
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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status
Release Date:
08/12/2016
Bob Shireman, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, said the department’s decision on the application should put an end to colleges’ attempts to dodge oversight by converting to nonprofit status.
ASPCA Survey Finds Consumers Concerned About Farm Animal Welfare, but Confused by Food Labels
Release Date:
08/12/2016
They're also willing to pay more for the better treatment of animals in the food system.
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Aug
2016
Hacking Immigration: Funding Technology for Advocates - Webinar
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Technology is now fundamental to how so many of us work, play, and interact. Yet the tools it offers are only beginning to be integrated into how we pursue our goals as grantmakers. The creation of software that makes outreach, education, screening...
Proteus Fund Reports on Orlando Rapid Response Fund Grantmaking
Release Date:
08/11/2016
After the tragic shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL on June 12, 2016, Proteus Fund quickly launched a Rapid Response Fund to support LGBTQ and Muslim, Arab & South Asian communities grappling with the implications of this massacre.
Century Foundation Publishes Report on Reducing Economic Inequality
Release Date:
08/11/2016
Income inequality in the United States has not been this bad in almost a century—not since the end of the 1920s, just before the country crashed into the Great Depression.
Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year
Release Date:
08/11/2016
100-day challenges will start on Sept. 7 in Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Austin.
Ford Foundation Paper Cited in Wired Article on the Future of Open Source Code
Release Date:
08/11/2016
Our modern society runs on software. But the tools we use to build software are buckling under increased demand.
Ford and #ReasonsforHope Foundations Want You To Know They Make A Difference—Not Just Write Checks
Release Date:
08/10/2016
The #ReasonsForHope campaign is trying to make people understand the powerful work of philanthropic foundations.
Helmsley Charitable Trust Contributes to Startup to Develop a Novel Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
Release Date:
08/10/2016
Pacific Diabetes Technologies (PDT), a Portland, Oregon-based medical device startup, will develop a novel treatment for type 1 diabetes.
Ford Foundation and Leading Thinkers Discuss A New Gospel of Philanthropy
Release Date:
08/10/2016
In many cases, foundations wish to solve social problems like extreme poverty and hunger — but acquire their resources through forces that have arguably helped create those very problems.
Simons Foundation Researchers Flag Hundreds of New Genes That Could Contribute to Autism
Release Date:
08/10/2016
Investigators eager to uncover the genetic basis of autism could now have hundreds of promising new leads thanks to a study by Princeton University and Simons Foundation researchers.
NY Community Trust Teams Up with Muslim-American Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes
Release Date:
08/09/2016
More than 80 percent of media coverage of Muslims is negative.
Celebrating Black Philanthropy Month and Our Collective History
Release Date:
08/09/2016
Yvonne L. Moore of Moore Philanthropy says she and Black colleagues share the deeply frustrating experience of having decisions, grant recommendations and analyses consistently questioned, unjustly critiqued and sometimes even undermined.
With Funding from Mellon Foundation, Documentary Celebrates Career of Filmmaker
Release Date:
08/09/2016
The Double Exposure Series, part of Carnegie Museum of Art's Time-Based Media Project, presents contemporary perspectives on pioneers of the past.
JPB Foundation Plays a Role in Improving a Blighted Park in Baltimore
Release Date:
08/09/2016
The Great Urban Parks Campaign aims to improve environmental and social outcomes in underserved communities through “green infrastructure” projects.
Why Ford Foundation Is Underwriting Black Lives Matter
Release Date:
08/08/2016
The Ford Foundation is planning on studying and underwriting what it calls a “new and dynamic form of social justice leadership and infrastructure,” by investing in the Black-Led Movement Fund.
Doris Duke Environmental Program Director Comments on Global Poo Menace
Release Date:
08/08/2016
When ivermectin knocks down the population of dung beetles in a cattle field, an extra 312 pounds of dung can pile up on every acre every year.
Poll Supported by Ford Foundation Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence
Release Date:
08/08/2016
The first-of-its-kind poll pays special attention to the voices of young adults of color, highlighting how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of a new generation.
16
Sep
2016
Philanthropy and the Sustainable Development Goals: Funding at Home and Abroad
Friday, September 16, 2016 -
9:00am to 11:00am
In September 2015, world leaders from all 193 United Nations member countries universally ratified the Sustainable Development Goals, representing a historic global consensus about the shared responsibility that all nations have in achieving global...