Arcus Foundation Establishes Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
Release Date:
12/04/2015
... Social Justice Leadership (ACSJL) at Kalamazoo College has named four Southwest Michigan social justice activists to its ...
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Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
Release Date:
01/07/2016
Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’ s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School ... Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son' s friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for...
F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century
Release Date:
06/08/2016
F.B. Heron Foundation' s Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the ... fifty years, the global economy (and that includes the U. S . economy) has felt the effects of three related long-term .....
Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... BRKA ), according to an official filing Thursday. He' s now made a huge donation 11 years in a row. This year, ... links to the Buffett family will share the rest: Buffett' s education-focused...
NYTimes Examines the Legacy of Newman’s Own Foundation
Release Date:
11/03/2016
NYTimes Examines the Legacy of Newman’ s Own Foundation Mention the name Paul Newman and many movie ... Mr. Newman as the philanthropic kingpin, whose Newman’ s Own food brand has raised hundreds of millions of...
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Views the Arts as a "Community Anchor"
Release Date:
12/12/2016
... cities and states (where its banks have a presence). It’ s an extensive list that currently covers 34 states plus ...
Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101
Release Date:
03/20/2017
David Rockefeller, the banker and philanthropist with the fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded vast influence around the world even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on...
'Marjorie Prime' Wins Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at Sundance for Focus on Science and Technology
Release Date:
03/29/2017
... Focus on Science and Technology FilmRise has acquired U. S . rights to Sundance winner “Marjorie Prime” and is ... of Walter provides companionship and stimulates Marjorie’ s memory as she lives with dementia...
Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75
Release Date:
04/04/2017
... be described? What lessons can it offer? The Fund’ s founding brothers represented an evolution within ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies: Six Things Cities Need to Know About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Release Date:
05/08/2017
... About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles Wired magazine named 2016 “the year of autonomous driving,” and CNN says ... as those fostered by the automobile a century ago. That’ s why it’ s so...
Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation
Release Date:
05/12/2017
... students. The largest single grant in the law school' s history includes $7 million to establish and endow the ... scholarship fund designed to encourage donors to endow named scholarships; and $3 million...
Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use
Release Date:
08/10/2017
... Justice (MFJ), better data is key to reforming America’ s hyper-localized criminal justice system. Plenty of ...
NYPD Boss James O’Neill Vacated Guilty Verdict Against Officer Accused Of Using Banned Chokehold: Sources
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... The secret is out — at least part of it. The city’ s top cop recently overturned a guilty verdict against an ... James O’Neill rejected the administrative judge’ s findings last month. It was the first time O’...
Family of Boy Who Wears Dresses Sues Education Department
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... Who Wears Dresses Sues Education Department A 5-year-old named Leo sat surrounded by toys on the floor of his bedroom ...
A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... In The Fight Against Islamophobia In Illinois, a mother’ s heartache over her daughter’ s autism led to a nonprofit that helps Muslims with ...
Raising Money from the Modern Family
Release Date:
09/06/2017
When fundraising efforts focus on couples, nonprofits miss some of their best potential donors. The typical donor profile is shifting fast, in part because women are often earning as much as or more than their husbands.
Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... hear a lot about the lack of diversity in philanthropy’ s upper leadership, and also about the lack of support to ... headed by women and people of color. Well, here’ s one funder that’ s...
Route Fifty Recognizes Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities at Second Annual Navigator Awards
Release Date:
11/17/2017
... Philanthropies-funded program begun in April 2015, was named a 2017 Navigator Award recipient for demonstrable ...
The Whiting Foundation Announces The 2018 Whiting Award Winners
Release Date:
03/22/2018
... don't even have a second book to their names. But that' s the idea here. The Whiting Foundation announced the 10 ... poetry and drama in its bid to honor literature' s most promising emerging...
The Rockefeller Foundation Announces the Communities Thrive Challenge Grantees
Release Date:
12/05/2018
Today, we are thrilled to share the names of the 10 organizations that will each receive a $1 million grant as part of the Communities Thrive Challenge, a joint funding opportunity from The Rockefeller Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Each...