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Justine Koch Joins Leon Levy Foundation
Release Date:
05/01/2013
The Leon Levy Foundation has appointed Justine Koch as its new Controller.
16
Jan
2013
Service for Impact Meeting
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 -
8:00am to 10:30am
Whether you fund housing, hunger or higher education, investments in a nonprofit’s ability to maximize the time and expertise of volunteers provide a high return on that investment. A study from the TCC Group found that "when nonprofit organizations...
Kresge Foundation, NCB Capital Impact Launch $30 Million Detroit Revitalization Fund
Release Date:
09/18/2013
With support from MetLife and the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, among others, the fund will provide long-term fixed-rate loans to mixed-use, mixed-income, transit-oriented projects that promote density, diversity, vibrancy and...
Rockefeller Foundation President Profiled in BusinessWeek
Release Date:
10/03/2014
... its own money, it’s focusing on what it calls “impact investing ”—highly targeted spending that opens the ...
How Institutions Take Risks
Release Date:
10/12/2014
... Philadelphia; her work in developing the field of impact investing ; and her big bet at the Rockefeller Foundation on ...
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Launches Program to Support Community Development in Underserved U.S. Regions
Release Date:
10/23/2014
The program will fund development in Appalachia, Maine, Puerto Rico, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.
A Great Wall of Funding? American Philanthropy and the Rise of China
Release Date:
11/11/2014
... think that U.S. foundations and philanthropists would be investing heavily in work that aims to ensure the best ... in some way over the past decade. But funders are not investing as heavily in China as you...
Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark
Release Date:
03/12/2015
... industrial site in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ into the world’s largest indoor vertical farm and global ...
JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Lead the Charge to Develop Dementia Treatment
Release Date:
03/18/2015
... launch a new multimillion pound fund to encourage research into treatment for dementia. The New York-based investment ...
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names the 2015 Doris Duke Artists
Release Date:
04/02/2015
... in their continuing work and well-being as they forge into the future...." The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation .....
Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?
Release Date:
07/02/2015
... Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access? Investing in clean energy access provides a disruptive ...
Ford Foundation Appoints John Irons as Director of Inclusive Economies
Release Date:
05/19/2016
... of work: 'Quality Work and Economic Security' and 'Impact Investing .' As director, he will advance Ford's work in .....
Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil
Release Date:
07/28/2016
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund took its first direct stake in a renewable energy company in a move meant to bolster the fight against climate change.
Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees
Release Date:
02/01/2017
With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.
Foundation for Child Development Publishes New Index on the Economic Stability of the American Family
Release Date:
02/06/2017
New research funded by the Foundation for Child Development, Children’s Experience with Parental Employment Insecurity and Family Income Inequality, provides a more accurate picture of the economic health of families and the ability of parents to...
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children
Release Date:
07/25/2017
The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday, positively impacts children up through the age of 12 but affects male and female children differently, according...
Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/01/2017
... program. Or Heron’s unparalleled commitment to impact investing . Or Wallace Global Fund’s incubation of the ...
Citi Foundation Partners with LISC, Commits $10 Million to Help Train American Workers for Growing Job Sectors
Release Date:
07/16/2018
... Workers for Growing Job Sectors The Citi Foundation is investing $10 million in the Local Initiatives Support ...
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan
Release Date:
11/29/2018
... Count, the latest effort led by the foundation, is investing in research to hear directly from teens about what ...