Underwater Mortgages, Drowning Cities, and Rogue Financiers
Release Date:
08/06/2013
A blog post by Robert C. Hockett, Fellow at The Century Foundation.
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Release Date:
08/06/2013
This article on the increasing closure of small, independent hospitals in New York quotes James Tallon, President of the United Hospital Fund.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America Receives $1 Million for High School Success Campaign
Release Date:
08/06/2013
The New York Life Foundation’s four-year grant to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America will strengthen the organization's academic programming for high school students.
New Jersey Recovery Fund Awards $3.8 Million for Sandy Relief
Release Date:
08/07/2013
Created with a lead gift from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and hosted by the Community Foundation of New Jersey, the fund is a collaborative effort of local and national foundations, New Jersey-based corporations and individuals committed to...
Atlantic Philanthropies to Award €15 Million to Address Child Poverty
Release Date:
08/07/2013
The $19.78 million grant from Atlantic to the Irish state agency Pobal will be used to support children at risk of poverty within the mainstream education and child care systems.
Inaugural Bellagio/PopTech Fellows Announced
Release Date:
08/07/2013
The Rockefeller Foundation and PopTech have announced the inaugural recipients of the Bellagio/PopTech Fellows program, a collaborative incubator that works to foster ideas for improving the lives of poor and vulnerable populations.
Talking Optimism and Opportunity With New Ford Foundation Head
Release Date:
08/08/2013
A profile of Darren Walker as he prepares to assume the role of President of the Ford Foundation.
Good Charity, Bad Charity
Release Date:
08/10/2013
This op-ed by Princeton University professor Peter Singer on how to choose between different areas of philanthropy cites information from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Red Cross Awards $1 Million to Staten Island Foundation for Sandy Recovery Efforts
Release Date:
08/14/2013
The grant from the American Red Cross will be distributed through the foundation's Hurricane Sandy Nonprofit Recovery Fund and help support community-based organizations providing home repairs for seniors, mental health services and coordination of...
It’s Time to Cut Through the Hype of Impact Investing
Release Date:
08/19/2013
This op-ed mentions the roles of the Ford Foundation and the F.B. Heron Foundation in the evolution of impact investing.
COF 2.0: Is This What The Field of Philanthropy Really Needs?
Release Date:
08/21/2013
An op-ed by Doug Bauer, Executive Director of The Clark Foundation, in NCRP’s Summer 2013 issue of Responsive Philanthropy.
Art Groups Fear Losing a Mayor, and His Money
Release Date:
07/01/2013
With less than six months remaining in Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor, and the recent end of a two-year grant program from Bloomberg Philanthropies, many artists and art-supporting organizations have grown concerned.
From Health-Care Reform, Lessons for Education Policy
Release Date:
07/09/2013
An op-ed by Greg Anrig, Vice President of Policy and Programs at The Century Foundation.
Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces $16.3 Million in Grants
Release Date:
07/10/2013
The second-quarter grants have been made to over two dozen organizations and institutions.
New York Life Foundation Awards $1 Million to Comfort Zone Camp
Release Date:
07/13/2013
The two-year, $1 million grant is in support of organizational capacity building for Comfort Zone Camp, a bereavement camp for youth between the ages of 7 and 17, and a new program model designed to increase the number of campers it serves.
Open Society Foundations Announces 2013 Soros Justice Fellows
Release Date:
05/15/2013
A mix of emerging and established social justice leaders, the fourteen fellows include investigative journalists, lawyers, grassroots organizers, policy advocates and scholars who will take on a range of reform issues that relate to broader OSF...
A Foundation Risks All of Its Endowment on Creating Jobs
Release Date:
05/19/2013
As part of its effort to rethink its approach to fighting poverty, the F.B. Heron Foundation will fully invest its $274 million endowment in the next five years to advance its mission.
Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close
Release Date:
05/20/2013
The country’s only independent polling agency has been accused under a new law of overtly political activity, due in part to a series of grants it has received from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute...
Morgan Stanley Pledges Additional $8 Million to Feeding America
Release Date:
05/21/2013
The new $8 million commitment is part of its continuing Fill the Plate initiative and an expansion of its employee volunteer arrangement with Feeding America.
To Be a True Practitioner of Democracy
Release Date:
05/22/2013
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