Site Search

Funding Area

In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... This Teen Is On The Front Lines North Carolina has become a flashpoint for transgender rights, and Rory Philbrick is ... acceptance and inclusion. Philbrick, 19, who identifies as a trans man...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... piece-rate in the city's textile factories for more than a decade to support her three children after she emigrated from China in the late 1980s. She sometimes labored until 2 a .m. for...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Health

Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... International announced it would fund and help set up a new body called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The ... this new organization with a mission of reducing the harm from...

Find More By

News type

International/Foreign Affairs

Funding Area

Health

Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety For a guy who likes eating fast food because it’s “very ... of controlling policy, he’s already gotten angry letters from almost every influential watchdog...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Food Systems

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

Release Date:

10/05/2017

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding A coalition of nonprofit ... Gonzalez’s decision to eliminate funding for nonprofits from his proposed 2018 city budget said that “recall ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

Release Date:

10/06/2017

... and Police Immigrant communities in general have a fear of police interactions, but this fear has been ... climate of crackdowns on immigration and increased raids from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Immigration

Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... in Lewiston and Niagara Falls, warning they still pose a serious threat to public health. The EPA recently abandoned ... cleanup activities to clean up hot spots that resulted from radioactive waste byproducts...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... and white pine, is so narrow that you could easily hurl a polished rock from one bank to the other. But ever since a century-old bridge nearby closed several years ago, ...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job The recovery from the crisis of 2008 has been one of the weakest on ... the developed world is down to 5.5 percent and approaching a 40-year low. This flies in the face...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Workforce Development

As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

Release Date:

10/18/2017

As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His ... Philanthropies recently gave another $64 million to a campaign that’s closing down coal plants in the United States, one telling headline came...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund

Release Date:

10/27/2017

... Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund The JDRF T1D Fund, a venture philanthropy fund focused on developing ... and treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D), has announced a $5 million commitment from...

Find More By

News type

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

Release Date:

11/02/2017

... to wear your password on your sleeve? Computer scientists from the University of Washington can make it so. A research team led by UW’s Shyam Gollakota has ... today in a news release. “You...

Find More By

News type

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Funding Area

Science

Related Organizations

The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste

Release Date:

11/14/2017

... American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, unveil results from a set of projects demonstrating innovative strategies aimed ... WWF, AHLA,...

Find More By

News type

The Rockefeller Foundation

Funding Area

Food Systems

Related Organizations

Brooklyn Community Foundation Encourages Donors to Give Where They Live with $100,000 Match

Release Date:

11/20/2017

... this holiday season with #BrooklynGives on Giving Tuesday, a 24-hour giving day that aims to raise hundreds of thousands ... Tuesday after Thanksgiving celebrated around the world as Giving Tuesday—#...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

Release Date:

11/27/2017

... financier and philanthropist George Soros has denounced a Hungarian government campaign against him as "distortions and lies" designed "to create an outside ... the resettlement of "at...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Open Society Foundations

“Arabella Advisors Partners with Fannie Mae to Announce Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge”

Release Date:

12/20/2017

... housing issues. The company expects to receive proposals from across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. ... stakeholders, can ultimately scale. “The Challenge is a responsible way for Fannie Mae to...

Find More By

News type

RFPs Etc

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

Arabella Advisors

The Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust Gives $740,000

Release Date:

01/16/2018

... With federal and state funding for schools under siege, a leading group of education funders is committing three-quarters of a million dollars to help students, teachers, and parents advocate for their needs...

Find More By

News type

The New York Community Trust

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

Release Date:

02/07/2018

... Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President The Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ... who has served as President since 2013. Alexander, a renowned writer,...

Find More By

News type

Appointments & Transitions

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

Anisa Kamadoli Costa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. Is A Vogue "2018 Game Changer"

Release Date:

03/15/2018

... Costa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. Is A Vogue "2018 Game Changer" The philanthropist is also the ... chairman and president of The Tiffany & Co. Foundation. As the woman...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area