A Nobel Prize For The Voluntary Sector
Release Date:
11/15/2009
... A few words about a recent Nobel Prize and its relevance to philanthropy. No, this isn’t about the Peace Prize to ... simple solutions to complex problems.” As she and a co -...
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United Hospital Fund Issues Report on Pediatric Primary Care
Release Date:
01/08/2016
... Fund Issues Report on Pediatric Primary Care According to a new United Hospital Fund report, resolving four key ... to ensure that each contact a young child has with the health care system...
JPMorgan Chase Announces new business and philanthropic commitments to help close the housing affordability gap in Washington D.C. and beyond
Release Date:
06/28/2023
... Chase Announces new business and philanthropic commitments to help close the housing affordability gap in Washington ... totaling $7.65 million to support three nonprofits working to...
Take This Opportunity to Understand Disaster and Resilience through a Gender Lens
Release Date:
10/28/2015
Take This Opportunity to Understand Disaster and Resilience through a Gender Lens ... By Ana Oliveira, President and CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation In Fall 2012, The New York Women’s Foundation...
Racial Equity Resource Guide
Publication date:
05/2014
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation offers an online racial equity resource guide. The ... provides individuals and organizations with access to extensive learning materials, tools and data on racial ... and tools of individuals and organizations that have been working to foster racial healing and racial equity in ...
National Geographic Documentary Films Announces Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Paris to Pittsburgh
Release Date:
09/13/2018
... Films Announces Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Paris to Pittsburgh National Geographic Documentary Films announced ... Michael Bonfiglio. Beaumont also produced the film. Executive Producers are Academy Award-...
Issue Guide: Capping the Charitable Deduction
Publication date:
08/2013
Philanthropy New York's public policy issue guide on the Obama Administration's proposed percentage cap for charitable deductions.
Economic Recovery Through Racial Equity: Thoughts from Maya Wiley
Release Date:
01/07/2010
... the Center for Social Inclusion on current strategies to increase the equitable impacts of government stimulus ... spending. One of the presenters was Maya Wiley , Executive Director of the Center for Social...
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Feb
2016
The Art of Moving Research to Impact
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 -
2:45pm to 5:00pm
... registration is currently at capacity. We encourage you to join the conversation via live stream below.* Many ... What role, if any, should foundations play in pushing out foundation -funded research and...
What’s at Stake and What’s at Play: My Reckoning with Philanthropy
Release Date:
12/02/2022
... By: Travis Baird, Program Officer, Maverick Capital Foundation I entered this sector because I wanted to be a driving force of change and create a different ... If funders don’t have members of the community...
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2016
Powerful Resource or Unhealthy Distraction? The Ongoing Debate about Young People and Technology
Thursday, January 7, 2016 -
8:45am to 10:30am
... for learning—but their use by youth has also been linked to attention problems, obesity and other issues. ... An-Me Chung, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Mozilla Foundation Michael Levine, ...
Impact Investing in New York and Beyond
Release Date:
07/12/2012
... return expectations, impact investors are finding new ways to affect issues from human health to community development to environmental protection. ... happening in New York...
B. Altman, a Store From Yesteryear, Still Makes Its Presence Felt in the City
Release Date:
11/28/2013
... New York Times examined the history and work of the Altman Foundation and spoke with its president, Jane B. O'Connell, ... and sister of the last two presidents of the store and the foundation . There was...
Private Funding Provides Lifeline For Stem Cell Researchers
Release Date:
07/07/2014
... in medicine is taking place at the New York Stem Cell Foundation , and almost all its work is being paid for by ... said Susan Solomon, C.E.O. of New York’s Stem Cell Foundation .... Private Funding Provides...
Individuals Addressing Open Society Challenges Invited to Apply for Fellowship
Release Date:
11/07/2016
Individuals Addressing Open Society Challenges Invited to Apply for Fellowship A program of the Open Society ... the Open Society Fellowship was founded in 2008 to support individuals around the world pursuing...
Rockefeller Cited As Trendsetter in Focusing on Resilience Over Climate Change
Release Date:
03/06/2017
... on Resilience Over Climate Change The Rockefeller Foundation has invested more than $500 million in resilience ... and other disasters. Sam Carter, a director at the foundation who works on resilience,...
New York Community Trust's HIVE Grants to Boost Digital Media Learning
Release Date:
06/02/2014
... After-School Programs Teens will record residents' stories to make a multimedia map of the Bronx; make, play, and remix ... Fund was started by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and The...
Reflections on Launching a Philanthropic Fund in Six Months
Release Date:
09/19/2019
... Services (WES), awarded over $1.2 million in funding to five inaugural grantee partners: The Beeck Center for ... Center for New Pennsylvanians . All are U.S. organizations working to support...
Bloomberg Funds Road Safety in World Cities
Release Date:
09/29/2014
Bloomberg Funds Road Safety in World Cities The World Health Organization estimates that traffic incidents will be linked to 1.4 million deaths in 2015. More than 90% of traffic ... which funds programs to...
United Way of New York City Joins Cuomo and Other Leaders for Economic Justice
Release Date:
09/18/2015
... "The current minimum wage has trapped millions of hard working New Yorkers in poverty and has prevented them from ... the minimum wage twice while in office, amounting to a total increase of 28 percent...