The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Seeks to Do Things Differently
Release Date:
04/13/2018
... is emblazoned on the wall right outside of Carson’s office , and says that its goal is to “partner with donors ...
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Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards Critical Path Institute a Grant to Focus on Crohn's disease
Release Date:
04/16/2018
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded Critical Path Institute (C-Path) a grant to support a Crohn's disease biomarker pre-consortium. The pre-consortium will identify unmet needs for the use of biomarkers in developing new...
Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2018 U.S. Mayors Challenge Entry Helps Homeless Store Their Vital Documents Digitally
Release Date:
04/19/2018
... School at The University of Texas, the City of Austin Office of Innovation, and Austin-Travis County EMS will be on ... in October, with four additional cities earning another $ 1 million each to further...
Silicon Valley Community Foundation Statement on Allegations of Workplace Misconduct
Release Date:
04/19/2018
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a values-driven organization, built on the contributions and the selfless efforts of our entire network. Of the core values at SVCF, accountability and transparency have helped our organization grow to where it...
OSF Leaving Hungary Under Government Pressure
Release Date:
05/15/2018
Under intense political pressure and the threat of legal sanctions, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations said on Tuesday that it had become impossible to work in Hungary, whose prime minister has blamed Mr. Soros for the country’s problems, and...
Salesforce Staff Ask CEO to Revisit Ties With Border Agency
Release Date:
06/28/2018
Hundreds of Salesforce.com Inc. employees signed a letter to Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff criticizing the company’s contracts with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, the latest in a series of staff protests at technology firms...
New York Foundation and New York Community Trust Create New Fund Aimed At Supporting A Fair and Accurate Census
Release Date:
07/02/2018
... State Grantmakers for Census Equity which plans to raise $ 1 to $2 million to help mobilize local and statewide efforts ...
Ford Foundation Joins Funders To Launch The Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund
Release Date:
08/13/2018
The Ford and W.K. Kellogg foundations recently teamed up with Borealis Philanthropy to launch the Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund. The fund just released its first round of grants, totaling $14 million, which will go to advancing racial equity...
Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Researchers Find Alzheimer's One Day May Be Predicted During Eye Exam
Release Date:
08/23/2018
Using technology similar to what is found in many eye doctors' offices, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have detected evidence suggesting Alzheimer's in older patients who had no symptoms of the disease.
Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program
Release Date:
09/05/2018
To support that activism, and help build a pipeline to develop the leaders of Puerto Rico’s future, the Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce the Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships program, open to Puerto Rican youths age 18–27 with proposed...
New Report Funded By The New York State Health Foundation Offers Solutions to Help NY’s Unpaid Family Caregivers
Release Date:
09/17/2018
... Foundation (NYSHealth) and the state Health Department and Office for the Aging with family caregivers, aging-service ...
Remembering Paul Newman
Release Date:
09/26/2018
... footage as the actor gives a tour of the Newman’s Own office , pointing to the outdoor furniture he brought over ...
Latest Installation of OSF’s Annual Moving Walls Series Depicts Migrants ‘As They’d Rather Be Seen’
Release Date:
10/09/2018
... The show opened on September 26 at the group’s office in New York City and runs until July 2019. The ...
Funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Launches Chicago Music Pathway Initiative to Diversify the Next Generation of Musicians
Release Date:
10/25/2018
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced a $3.5 million grant to seven Chicago area music organizations to establish the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative (CMPI). CMPI will support promising young musicians from underrepresented backgrounds and...
Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality Appoints Diahann Billings-Burford as New CEO
Release Date:
10/30/2018
... as CEO for two years and is moving on to run for political office in Michigan. Billings-Burford, who formerly held ...
Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis
Release Date:
02/13/2019
... Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis, the World’s # 1 Infectious Killer Ahead of the first-ever United Nations ... TB pandemic by 2030. With the goal of saving an estimated 1 .8 million lives and preventing 12...
New Paper From Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Perella Weinberg Partners Finds Investors Can Pursue Impact Without Sacrificing Returns
Release Date:
02/20/2019
... PWP Agility has served as the Outsourced Chief Investment Office (OCIO) for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which ... the Fund has committed more than $227 million of its $ 1 .16 billion endowment to ESG...
New York Life Foundation Invests in Expanding Access to Summer and Afterschool Learning
Release Date:
04/23/2019
BellXcel, a national education nonprofit, today announced a $3 million, three-year grant from the New York Life Foundation that will help the organization to expand access to evidence-based summer and afterschool learning for 12,000 at-risk middle-...
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2020 Census Funder Learning Series: Effective Strategies for Business Engagement - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP
Monday, May 13, 2019 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
This discussion will focus on strategies to engage and build partnerships with the business sector around the 2020 Census. Presenters will share resources, approaches to census engagement, and insights into how to mitigate potential barriers, with a...
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces Two New Board Members
Release Date:
05/08/2019
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation today announced the recent election of Kofi Appenteng and Justin McAuliffe to serve as members of its board of directors.