Arabella Advisors Noted in NPR Report: Solutions that Could Help The U.S. Slash Food Waste
Release Date:
03/16/2016
... probably know that Americans waste a lot of food. Each year , an estimated 133 billion pounds of food that farmers ...
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Clark Foundation Illustrates Grantmaking for a Rainy Day
Release Date:
05/02/2016
Following the 2008 financial crisis, Clark identified working capital as a much more critical need for the nonprofits in its portfolio.
Peterson Foundation's Fiscal Summit Convenes Leaders To Discuss Economic Priorities for Next President
Release Date:
05/11/2016
Leading experts and policymakers from across the political spectrum gather today to discuss the fiscal and economic priorities for the next president, at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's 2016 Fiscal Summit: Leadership for a Secure Future.
Bessemer Trust Among Experts Tapped by NYTimes for Piece on Social Change Major Gifts
Release Date:
05/16/2016
... peanut paste to feed malnourished children, and another in Year Up, a nonprofit group started in Boston that teaches ...
Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building
Release Date:
07/05/2016
Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money.
Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... chance as white kids of getting a good education. The next year , in another Gallup survey, almost half of whites said ...
Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
“This is a preference that preferences the already advantaged,” observed Richard Kahlenberg, a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and a prolific writer on higher education issues.
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... going back to the previous decade, like the seven- year -old, still-healthy alliance between the nonprofit ...
Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors
Release Date:
09/29/2016
Yale University researchers conducted a study with the Milbank Memorial Fund to learn what the challenges were in implementing a more social services-oriented approach within health departments and across communities.
Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism
Release Date:
11/18/2016
Mark Lilla, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, writes in the New York Times to advocate for a "post-identity liberalism."
Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition
Release Date:
01/10/2017
The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur 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...
Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees
Release Date:
01/23/2017
... a third group, who told him about a crossing that, one year later, would come to exemplify Europe’s refugee ...
Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma
Release Date:
01/31/2017
... chronic illnesses, including asthma. The video follows 14- year -old Angel as the program works to remedy issues at home ...
Mellon Foundation Supports African, Latin American and Native American Collections Research at Princeton
Release Date:
02/14/2017
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Princeton University a grant of $300,000 to support three years of specialist research in targeted areas of the collections as part of the Art Museum’s multiyear Collections Discovery Initiative.
Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia
Release Date:
04/03/2017
... of inflammatory bowel diseases in Asia. The three- year grants will support researchers affiliated with the ...
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens
Release Date:
04/14/2017
The foundation is particularly interested in applicants with training in different fields who want to apply their experience to understanding the role of microorganisms in shaping ocean processes and vice versa, including applicants with experience...
NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing
Release Date:
04/17/2017
... must spend at least 5 percent of their endowment every year on charitable purposes. In Ford’s case, that amounts ...
Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"
Release Date:
04/26/2017
... improve a city or communities’ outcomes. A three-to-five- year philanthropic grant cycle will not allow philanthropy to ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies: Six Things Cities Need to Know About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Release Date:
05/08/2017
... of Autonomous Vehicles Wired magazine named 2016 “the year of autonomous driving,” and CNN says we’ve reached ...
Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution
Release Date:
05/12/2017
... in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution. The three- year awards are intended to help launch the careers of ...