Simons Foundation Initiative Provides Support for Early Career Scientists
Release Date:
03/25/2015
... Support for Early Career Scientists They will award up to 70 grants every 2.5 years to promising scientists ...
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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research
Release Date:
04/10/2015
... a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein Innovation Award totaling $300,000 for research into molecular activity ...
Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta
Release Date:
04/13/2015
In the Niger Delta, gender inequality is compounded by the competition for oil, which often leads to violence.
Citi Foundation, America's Promise Alliance Launch $3 Million Fund
Release Date:
04/27/2015
... collaborations across sectors. To that end, the fund will award grants of up to $250,000 in support of local nonprofit ...
Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South
Release Date:
05/29/2015
The South makes up 49 percent of all new HIV diagnoses.
JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities
Release Date:
06/02/2015
“These grants allow cities, systems, and non-profit partners to test interventions and help us develop best practices for encouraging more people to use bike share."
Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research
Release Date:
06/02/2015
The funding will lead biology and genetics research for education programs.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Facilitates Clinical Research with $8.7 Million in Grants
Release Date:
07/14/2015
The foundation has awarded $8.7 million to 18 physician-scientists to reserve 75 percent of their time for independent research.
Philanthropists, Lawmakers Behind New Push for College Education in Prison
Release Date:
07/29/2015
Move comes as criminal-justice policies place more emphasis on preparing inmates for life beyond bars.
Wallace Foundation Releases Reports on Successful Audience-Building Efforts
Release Date:
08/14/2015
The case studies are the eighth and ninth in the 10-part Wallace Studies in Building Arts Audiences series.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO
Release Date:
10/16/2015
... anything they wish. Think of it as a MacArthur "genius award " for nonprofits — courtesy of the Ford, Hewlett, .....
Ford Foundation Appoints David Barth as Director of Youth Opportunity and Learning
Release Date:
10/19/2015
... He was the recipient of the Harold Shapiro Public Service Award and the Murray Snider Public Interest Fellowship. In ... the only foreign recipient of the tri-annual Silver Light Award for altruism for his...
Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows
Release Date:
04/08/2016
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2016 class of fellows. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were selected from a group of nearly three thousand applicants.
Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign
Release Date:
04/19/2016
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support of United States Artists (USA), a non-profit organization that awards annual $50,000 fellowships to artists around...
Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 33 Winners of Its Prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellows
Release Date:
04/19/2016
Each of the 2016 winners of the so-called "brainy awards" will receive up to $200,000 to fund one or two years of scholarly research in areas including education, law, technology, business and public policy.
Mellon Grant Aims to Leverage Linked Data for Enhanced Information Access
Release Date:
04/28/2016
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Stanford a $1.5 million grant to support library initiatives that develop and advance the use of linked open data.
Tow Foundation, Columbia University Arts Announce Winners of Play Reading Series
Release Date:
05/19/2016
The reading series awards three playwrights from the current MFA program and recent alumni with a cash prize as well as two readings in Roundabout's Black Box Theatre.
Twenty Cities Advance in Bloomberg Philanthropies' Latin American and Caribbean Mayors Challenge
Release Date:
06/20/2016
Finalists selected from pool of 290 cities that submitted bold ideas to address urban challenges and improve city life.
Bank of America Announces $300k to Boost Workforce Skills Among Local Youth, Veterans and People With Disabilities
Release Date:
06/20/2016
Bank of America announced $300,000 in grants to be distributed to 12 nonprofits in the Long Island community.
Applications Invited for Soros Justice Fellowships in Advocacy and Media
Release Date:
09/21/2016
A program of the Open Society Foundations, Soros Justice Fellowships support outstanding individuals working to implement innovative projects that advance reform and spur debate on a range of issues facing the criminal justice system in the United...