President, Again, Attacks Charitable Deduction
Release Date:
04/11/2013
This examination of President Obama’s federal budget proposal includes comments from Michael Peterson, President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
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Release Date:
04/16/2013
The nearly $2 million bequest from the estate of Margaret "Meg" Jacobs is the largest bequest in the organization's forty-year history.
Small Nonprofit Newsroom Wins Pulitzer for Reporting
Release Date:
04/16/2013
InsideClimate News, a five-year-old nonprofit environmental journalism outlet supported in part by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its investigation of a pipeline oil spill in Michigan.
The Role of Philanthropy and Advocacy in Healthcare Reform Implementation
Release Date:
02/21/2013
A report from Philanthropy New York’s “Money and Power in Post-Election America: Where Is Philanthropy?” conference's Health Reform breakout session.
Sequestering the Sector
Release Date:
02/28/2013
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors President & CEO Melissa Berman discusses what the sequester could mean for the nonprofit sector.
Anti-Polio Campaign Gets Big Cash Infusion
Release Date:
02/28/2013
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a $100 million donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, bolstering fellow philanthropist Bill Gates' support of GPEI.
Biggest Givers of 2012
Release Date:
03/04/2013
Melissa Berman, President & CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is quoted in this analysis of 2012's top donors.
Four charter schools will be launched under initiative started by Mayor Bloomberg
Release Date:
03/05/2013
The state Education Department has received applications to open the schools as part of the mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative, which is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Open Society Foundations.
Ford Foundation’s President to Depart in September
Release Date:
03/06/2013
An examination of Luis Ubiñas' tenure as President.
Ford Foundation President to Step Down
Release Date:
03/06/2013
President Luis Ubiñas has announced that he will leave his position in September of this year.
Providence Wins Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Cities Challenge
Release Date:
03/13/2013
The Providence Talks project, which will help low-income parents improve their kids’ language skills, secured the $5 million top prize for Providence, R.I., in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayor’s Challenge.
Critics of State’s Campaign Finance Laws Seek Philanthropists’ Help
Release Date:
01/24/2013
Representatives from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Open Society Foundations attended a meeting organized by the Piper Fund to enlist support for changing New York’s campaign finance laws.
Salk Institute Receives $42 Million From Helmsley Charitable Trust to Create Research Center for Genomic Medicine
Release Date:
01/24/2013
The Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine will enable scientists in a range of fields to explore how certain cellular pathways serve as lynchpins for chronic diseases, which could lead to new therapy targets.
Russia's Real Friends in the West
Release Date:
01/27/2013
An op-ed by Deana Arsenian, Vice President for International Program and Program Director for Russia and Eurasia at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Atlantic Philanthropies Awards $3.25 Million to Expand Children's Access to Health Coverage
Release Date:
02/01/2013
The grant to the National League of Cities will help increase children's access to health insurance.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Announces $10.9 Million in Grants to Greek Organizations
Release Date:
02/05/2013
The organizations are working to ease the effects of the ongoing socioeconomic crisis in Greece.
With A.L.S. in Family, Chief at Bloomberg Joins Fight
Release Date:
02/06/2013
Bloomberg L.P. CEO Daniel Doctoroff is working with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Carlyle Group Co-Founder David Rubenstein to put together a $25 million package of donations to support research to cure amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Education Tech Nonprofit Launches with Gates, Carnegie Support
Release Date:
02/06/2013
The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have provided startup funding for the new nonprofit, inBloom, which aims “to make personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student by improving the effectiveness...
Philanthropy 50—No. 39: Jon Stryker
Release Date:
02/10/2013
Mr. Stryker made the Chronicle’s list of the top 50 donors of 2012 with the $30.1 million he gave to the Arcus Foundation, which he founded 13 years ago.
Philanthropy Must Do More to Influence Policy, Say Government Officials
Release Date:
02/13/2013
An in-depth profile of Philanthropy New York’s “Money and Power in Post-Election America: Where Is Philanthropy?” conference.