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.
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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
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat visiting the United States saw a new phenomenon in America. In Democracy in America, the book that emerged from his experiences, he called it "individualism," a word he coined to describe the...
Though Enrolling More Poor Students, 2-Year Colleges Get Less of Federal Pie
Release Date:
05/22/2013
A review of the findings from The Century Foundation’s report on the nation’s community colleges.
Donor Collaborations: Size Matters Less Than You Think
Release Date:
05/24/2013
SeaChange Capital Partners’ John MacIntosh responds to a recent SSIR article on high stakes donor collaborations, using the New York Merger, Acquisition, and Collaboration Fund (NYMAC) as a case study.
Scathing Report Highlights Forgotten Role of Community Colleges
Release Date:
05/26/2013
Century Foundation Trustee Melissa Harris-Perry and Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg discuss the findings from the foundation’s new report.
Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Releases Final Report
Release Date:
05/28/2013
The foundation’s $340 million graduate-level fellowship initiative has, over the past twelve years, helped more than 4300 social justice leaders from 22 countries advance their education and bring new knowledge and skills back to their home...
Teagle Foundation Awards More Than $1.5 Million
Release Date:
05/29/2013
Most of the eleven grants were awarded through the foundation's Larger Vision for Student Learning: Education for Civic and Moral Responsibility initiative.
RE.invest Initiative to Partner With Eight Cities to Develop Resilient Stormwater Systems
Release Date:
05/29/2013
The Rockefeller Foundation-funded initiative is a two-year effort to help municipalities rethink the way they design, plan, implement and finance infrastructure.
Red Cross gives $1.25M grant to Brooklyn Community Foundation
Release Date:
05/30/2013
The grant from the American Red Cross in Greater New York will support long-term recovery efforts for people affected by Superstorm Sandy.
The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill
Release Date:
06/01/2013
The Commonwealth Fund’s recent report on health care spending in 13 industrialized nations helps demonstrate that the U.S. spends more on health care than any other country. (Fund President Dr. David Blumenthal is also quoted in this article.)
World Bank Looks to Leverage Partnerships With Foundations
Release Date:
06/02/2013
The World Bank is looking to increase the number of such partnerships — which include a recent effort with the Ford and Open Society foundations — to help reduce global poverty and boost incomes for the bottom 40 percent in developing countries by...
Breadth, lack of checks distinguish NSA surveillance
Release Date:
06/10/2013
In this video Century Foundation Senior Fellow Barton Gellman discussed his reporting on PRISM, the NSA’s data collection program that sweeps up information from major Internet sources.
Continued discussion about the NSA Leaks
Release Date:
06/11/2013
In this video Century Foundation Senior Fellow Barton Gellman is part of this panel discussion on Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency leaks.
Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects
Release Date:
06/12/2013
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School have announced the six winners of a national competition to provide technical assistance to state and local governments looking to develop "...
2013 Black Male Achievement Fellows Announced
Release Date:
06/12/2013
The Open Society Foundations, in partnership with Echoing Green, have announced the 2013 class of Black Male Achievement Fellows.