Rausch and Long Island Community Foundations Partner to Expand Tourism in Riverhead
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... New York City and promoting Riverhead as a place people plan their vacations around — and emphasizing the town’s ...
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Rockefeller Exec Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments
Release Date:
07/15/2016
The grant maker's plans includes helping finance efforts to develop renewable-energy technogies, deliver clean electricity to rural India, and create insurance products for extreme-weather events in Africa.
Mellon Foundation Awards Wilson College $100K to Strengthen Writing Instruction
Release Date:
07/25/2016
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Wilson College a $100,000 grant to strengthen writing instruction for students, especially those in their first year.
Why Ford Foundation Is Underwriting Black Lives Matter
Release Date:
08/08/2016
The Ford Foundation is planning on studying and underwriting what it calls a “new and dynamic form of social justice leadership and infrastructure,” by investing in the Black-Led Movement Fund.
Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities
Release Date:
09/12/2016
... of its New York headquarters. The foundation does not plan to start a new program on disabilities, wrote Darren ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Brings More Data to NGOs in Africa
Release Date:
10/19/2016
... and government in an attempt to create a comprehensive plan to secure “women’s economic development and ...
Rockefeller Family Fund Calls ExxonMobil’s Conduct ‘Morally Reprehensible’
Release Date:
11/29/2016
David Kaiser, a fifth-generation member of the Rockefeller family, and Lee Wasserman, director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, wrote an article in the New York Review of Books calling out ExxonMobil for “morally reprehensible conduct.”
Former Capital One Foundation President Forms Consulting Practice to Strengthen Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships
Release Date:
12/02/2016
... One Foundation’s $450 million, 10-year charitable plan , has teamed up with longtime communications ...
A NYS Health-Funded Report in 'Consumer Reports' Offers National and Local Ratings of Health Cost Estimator Tools
Release Date:
12/02/2016
This NYSHealth-funded report in Consumer Reports offers ratings of health cost estimator tools, both nationally and New York State-specific, that help consumers make better-informed decisions about their health care.
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Workshop To Further Innovation And Sustainability in New Jersey
Release Date:
12/20/2016
From finding ways to better engage the city’s youth to empowering the disenfranchised, a new collaborative group is working to establish solutions to keep the city moving forward.
Mellon Foundation Gives $1.02 Million to New Critical Theory Initiative
Release Date:
03/30/2017
Using a $1.02 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Northwestern will collaborate with worldwide professionals to develop a curriculum on critical theory, a stream of philosophy that critiques the ways culture is formed and discussed.
Gay Rights Group Turns Down Bank of America’s Money Over HB2 Compromise
Release Date:
05/09/2017
The nation’s largest gay rights group plans to reject $325,000 in Bank of America sponsorships to protest the role bank executives played in brokering a replacement for North Carolina’s House Bill 2 - known as "the bathroom bill."
Tiffany & Co. Makes Its Point: Presidents Come and Go, But Climate Change is Forever
Release Date:
05/11/2017
As the firing of FBI Director James Comey swamps the news cycle, an amazing public statement by Tiffany & Co. still glitters through the muck. On Tuesday morning, the legendary American jeweler issued a terse but vehement pitch in favor of the...
Rockefeller, Gates and Norway to Bolster ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Following Climate Change Flooding Fears
Release Date:
05/22/2017
The Norwegian government has confirmed plans to boost defenses at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault after reports of flooding at the facility prompted panic that the world’s future food supply could be destroyed. The Crop Trust is targeting a $850...
With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Urban Design Team Proposes Outer Borough Light Rail
Release Date:
06/30/2017
... bring the "summer of hell" into sharp focus, the Regional Plan Association and Rockefeller Foundation have come up with .....
Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup
Release Date:
08/01/2017
... back to their causes, officials from the group said with a plan to announce the initiative later on Tuesday. The ...
Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries
Release Date:
08/18/2017
The Westchester Community Foundation (WCF) is funding a series, which will focus on the 200-year history of Sing Sing and its impact on prison reform, as well as current issues of incarceration, reform, rehabilitation and return to prison.
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Release Date:
08/28/2017
Successful schools, analysts say, will increasingly be the ones that expand their programs to suit the changing needs of employers.
Trump Administration Considering Cuts to Cultural Exchange Visas
Release Date:
08/28/2017
The Trump administration is considering major reductions in cultural exchange programs, including those for au pairs and summer workers, that allow young people from foreign countries to work in the U.S., people familiar with the administration’s...
Nonprofit Supporting NYCHA Adds to Early Fundraising & Programs
Release Date:
08/29/2017
More than a year-and-a-half after the Fund for Public Housing officially began soliciting donors, the nonprofit has raised approximately $1.5 million, according to New York City Housing Authority Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye.