The World Has Pledged To Divest $2.6 Trillion From Fossil Fuels
Release Date:
09/22/2015
... pressure from students and faculty to divest the world’ s largest university endowment, totaling some $32 billion.... ...
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Ford’s Walker Weighs in on New Rules Allowing Pension Funds to Invest with Conscience
Release Date:
10/22/2015
Ford’ s Walker Weighs in on New Rules Allowing Pension Funds to ... problems." Statement from Darren Walker, chair of the National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (NAB) and president of the Ford ...
Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)
Release Date:
01/11/2016
... years," said Inder Verma, professor in the Salk Institute' s Laboratory of Genetics and senior author of the paper ... Science Advances. . . The work was funded by the National Institutes of Health,...
Mayor's Fund Hires New Director of Development
Release Date:
03/15/2016
Mayor' s Fund Hires New Director of Development The Mayor' s Fund to Advance New York City announced that Joy Shigaki ... new Director of Development. Shigaki comes to the Mayor’ s Fund...
Carnegie, Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects
Release Date:
05/03/2016
... Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects The U. S . Department of Education is collaborating with ASCD and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards ... supported by the Leona M. and Harry B...
Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services
Release Date:
05/24/2016
Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’ s Role in Child Welfare Services The national effort spearheaded by the federal government and ... in the Child Welfare System” and launched by the U. S ...
Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia
Release Date:
06/17/2016
... that unusual. It was the right alliance.” This week’ s summit was organized by national foundations including the Rockefeller Family Fund. ...
Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism
Release Date:
11/18/2016
... better than any European or Asian nation today. It’ s an extraordinary success story. But how should this ... principle of moral pedagogy — but disastrous as a foundation for democratic politics in our...
NYSHealth Funding Opportunity Now Open: Spreading OpenNotes in New York State
Release Date:
04/24/2017
... OpenNotes in New York State The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) is pleased to launch a Request for ... in New York State in adopting OpenNotes. OpenNotes is a national movement to give patients...
Unbound Philanthropy is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It?
Release Date:
07/17/2017
... that elected a blatantly anti-immigrant president? That’ s a question lots of funders have been asking themselves ... of rapid response giving. Grantmakers in the mix include national outfits like the Open...
Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change
Release Date:
08/21/2017
... But heirs Nat and Liz Simons are taking the family’ s hedge fund fortune a different direction with some serious ... personality, crazy life story, and his and wife Marilyn’ s game-changing giving. But his...
Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... participating in Day Without a Woman and the Women' s March. In record numbers, more and more of us are becoming ... in the political process, advocating with state and national elected officials, and...
Advancing The Mental Health And Well-Being Movement Through Grant Making: Engaged Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/02/2017
Investing in the health of a nation requires thoughtful deliberation and vision. Grantmakers, especially those with a focus on health, play a unique role in helping support community innovation that can advance health.
Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... change. Debra Meyerson and Megan Tompkins’ s research, using the National Science Foundation ’ s ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan, ...
OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros
Release Date:
11/27/2017
OSF Denounces Hungarian Government' s Attacks Against Soros Hungarian-American financier and ... The Open Society Foundations, in a note posted on Soros' s personal website, responded to a "...
Why We Support Media
Release Date:
07/05/2018
... By Mark Bieler, Chairman of the Board of the Edwin Gould Foundation For the last two decades or so, the Edwin Gould ... Award, which recognizes journalism that contributes to the national discussion about the...
Philanthropic Leaders Call for Protecting the Independence of Special Counsel Investigation
Release Date:
11/20/2018
... the Independence of Special Counsel Investigation It’ s astoundingly rare for foundation leaders to make statements about national political issues, but yesterday, through the ...
SNF Temporarily Pauses Submission of New Grant Requests for Projects in Greece
Release Date:
12/11/2018
... Grant Requests for Projects in Greece The Stavros Niarchos Foundation ( SNF ) announced that temporarily pauses ... we are and where we need to be going.” Follows SNF’ s announcement: “The Stavros Niarchos...
Bloomberg Awards $10 Million to Address Opioid Crisis in Michigan
Release Date:
03/17/2019
... Charitable Trusts, Johns Hopkins University, and the CDC Foundation , the initiative will focus on addressing gaps in ... and now ranks eighth in that category nationally. In the U. S ., more than two million...
Commonwealth Fund Launches A New Tool for Comparing ‘Medicare for All’ Plans
Release Date:
03/15/2019
... Plans The Commonwealth Fund, a non-partisan health care foundation , introduced an interactive tool this week that ... hope and fear across the country depending on people’ s perspective or financial stake in...