Commonwealth Fund Blasts Digital Data Breaches
Release Date:
04/15/2015
Dr. David Blumenthal urges for more security regarding health and medical information.
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Arcus and Other Organizations Shift Focus to Stop LGBTQ Violence and Intolerance
Release Date:
10/02/2015
As same-sex marriage legalization come to the forefront, organizations have shifted away from fighting for marriage equality legislation.
Rockefeller’s Sarah Geisenheimer to Step in for Chen at Fund for Public Schools
Release Date:
12/03/2015
Sarah Geisenheimer, of the Rockefeller Foundation, will replace Iris Chen, executive director of the NYC Department of Education’s private fundraising arm, who resigned earlier this week.
HSBC Cuts Links With Big Muslim Aid Charity
Release Date:
01/04/2016
Global bank HSBC has halted services to international humanitarian agency Islamic Relief, allegedly over concerns that the nonprofit's funds could end up in the hands of terrorist groups, Economic Times writes, citing reporting by London's Sunday...
NYTimes Examines Hartford Foundation Work on Geriatrics
Release Date:
01/29/2016
Terry Fulmer, president of the Hartford Foundation, observed, in the New York Times article noting the foundation's work, how support is needed for a high quality of life for the elderly.
Bloomberg Report: 'Data Gap' at City Halls Across the Nation
Release Date:
03/10/2016
... 40 percent of all midsize U.S. cities. With a goal of closing the city hall “data gap,” What Works Cities ...
Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign
Release Date:
04/19/2016
... night at the New World Center in Miami Beach during the closing night festivities of the 2016 USA Artists Assembly, ...
New York Community Trust Helps Mexican Students with Resident-Led Advocacy and Organizing
Release Date:
04/28/2016
The Mexican American Student Association (Masa), a New York Community Trust grantee and small grassroots organization that works closely with its South Bronx and Mott Haven communities on education and immigrant issues, engages families through...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Anti-Coal Campaign Reaches Milestone
Release Date:
05/04/2016
An effort to shut down coal-fired power plants reached a major milestone Tuesday, with 100,000 megawatts of coal electricity capacity having announced shutdown plans since 2010.
NYS Health Foundation Leads to Financially Sustainable Care Model For Resettled Refugees
Release Date:
05/05/2016
The influx of newly resettled people in upstate New York has forced several nonprofit health care clinics to either shut their doors to new refugees or close down altogether because of the financial burden of treating these patients.
Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation
Release Date:
05/05/2016
Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation Surdna has an idea: Give more ownership of companies to workers. It’s not a new idea — worker cooperatives have been around since the 19th century — but it’s an idea that...
PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem
Release Date:
04/18/2017
One of the PIMCO Foundation’s philanthropic focus areas is gender equality, which coincides with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”
Soviet-Era Program Gives Even Unoppressed Immigrants an Edge
Release Date:
08/29/2017
A growing number of Ukrainians who have streamed into the United States in recent months even as the country has closed the door on other refugees.
Inside The NYC Schools Critics Call ‘Failure Factories’
Release Date:
09/05/2017
They are the schools Mayor de Blasio doesn’t mention. At 32 city elementary and middle schools, the average English-math proficiency rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students for four years in a row.
Whatsapp Co-Founder Brian Acton Is Leaving The Company To Start His Own Foundation
Release Date:
09/13/2017
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving the company to start his own non-profit.
'We're Trying to Go All In': Chocolate Giant Mars Pledges $1 Billion To Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The chocolate giant Mars is promising to spend close to $1 billion over the next few years fighting climate change.
School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students
Release Date:
10/03/2017
School districts from Florida to Massachusetts are anticipating an influx of Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria and have begun preparations to identify which schools have space and which resources will be needed.
A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah
Release Date:
01/12/2018
The former USAID administrator, and president of one of the United States’ largest foundations, reflects on the role of philanthropy in times of austerity and the greatest challenges Rockefeller is undertaking both domestically and abroad.
Capital One and Others Fund Tech Training for Youth
Release Date:
06/29/2018
Operation Spark is training local youth and adults for high-tech careers of the future.
The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation
Release Date:
07/06/2018
At a time when the danger of opioids is clear, UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory are collaborating to form the Connecticut Pain Consortium.