Capital One Foundation Sees Departure at the Top, Appoints New President
Release Date:
06/09/2016
... long-serving President Carolyn Berkowitz stepping down to pursue other opportunities. Berkowitz, who had served as ...
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Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building
Release Date:
07/05/2016
... the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure ... President of the Ford Foundation, has gone so far as to issue this brave statement about...
Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... York City. Each year, SQS members award one or more grants to advance programming and services that directly benefit LGBTQ New Yorkers. This fall, a one-year general operating support grant of $12,500 will be...
Century Foundation Fellow Comments on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status
Release Date:
08/12/2016
... denied a request by a Utah-based for-profit college chain to convert to nonprofit status for federal financial aid purposes. ... six states as well as an online degree program, will have to...
Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations
Release Date:
09/09/2016
... the myriad responses that animals, including humans, use to lower their temperature—from “automatic” ... physiological processes such as sweating and panting, to complex behaviors, such as moving to...
Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition
Release Date:
01/10/2017
... Charles F. Feeney '56, has made a $7 million grant to The Cornell Tradition, a fellowship program offering ... distinctive service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the university's most...
Philanthropy 101: Re-Thinking Power Beyond the Grantmaking Role
Release Date:
02/14/2017
... Philanthropy 101 series was designed for an audience new to the philanthropic sector. For the fifth module on power, the facilitators pushed participants to think beyond power in a grantmaking role. The...
Laura Walker Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors
Release Date:
03/28/2017
Laura Walker Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors Laura Walker, ... and CEO of New York Public Radio, has been elected to The Commonwealth Fund’s Board of Directors, effective ... York Public Radio’s...
A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others
Release Date:
05/23/2017
... in New York’s East Village in mid-April, promising to donate 100% of all profits to charities whose missions might be affected by the Trump ... and the Ex Novo brewpub, also in that city, which gives ...
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair
Release Date:
06/02/2017
... term that concluded May 31, 2017. "It is my privilege to serve the Weinberg Foundation in this new capacity," said ... Chair of the Board Robert T. Kelly, Jr. "Since my election to the Board of...
Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting
Release Date:
06/05/2017
... Enter The GroundTruth Project, a non-profit with a mission to support emerging journalists in pursuit of stories all ...
Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders
Release Date:
07/25/2017
Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders Just as ... blamed for complex brain disorders like autism, according to a Keck School of Medicine of USC...
Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint
Release Date:
08/08/2017
... experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was the first to measure coherent scattering of low-energy neutrinos off ...
Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines
Release Date:
08/10/2017
... big data initiatives and the efforts of market leaders to derive critical business insights faster. Less has been written about initiatives by some of these same firms to apply big data and analytics ...
Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion
Release Date:
08/21/2017
... resources and expertise from across its operations to address income inequality "through the lens of financial ... system — no bank accounts, no credit, no access to loans and other financial instruments...
Unemployment’s Steady Fall Could Signal Trouble—or a Broader Structural Shift
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... Broader Structural Shift The unemployment rate has fallen to a 16-year low of 4.3% and may not be done falling. The ... that is good news because it means the economy is still operating below capacity and has...
At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity each year; in 2016, $50 million went to organizations and programs in the Bay Area. (Google’s ... last week, Google.org announced a $1...
No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... bikes that would rent for as little as $1 and did not have to be picked up or returned to fixed locations. But before it could even start, the ... from city transportation officials. A news conference ...
The New York Times Is Looking for Nonprofit Funding. Will It Succeed Where Others Have Failed?
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... and editor at the paper, would "build an operation" to seek philanthropic funding. The Times' move is predictable ... more than 2 million digital-only subscribers, in addition to 1 million print...
Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion ... Citi Bike will also add seven “infill” stations to fill out thin parts of the bike-...