Ford Foundation Appoints John Irons as Director of Inclusive Economies
Release Date:
05/19/2016
... He also helped guide Rockefeller's program-related investments ... Ford Foundation Appoints John Irons as .....
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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil
Release Date:
07/28/2016
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund took its first direct stake in a renewable energy company in a move meant to bolster the fight against climate change.
Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap
Release Date:
10/21/2016
... annually per company on data-related activities. These investments are made with the understanding that they will ...
Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees
Release Date:
02/01/2017
With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.
Foundation for Child Development Publishes New Index on the Economic Stability of the American Family
Release Date:
02/06/2017
New research funded by the Foundation for Child Development, Children’s Experience with Parental Employment Insecurity and Family Income Inequality, provides a more accurate picture of the economic health of families and the ability of parents to...
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children
Release Date:
07/25/2017
The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday, positively impacts children up through the age of 12 but affects male and female children differently, according...
Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... general vision of the rezoning while calling for certain investments and strategies. Some demands were similar to the ...
Advancing The Mental Health And Well-Being Movement Through Grant Making: Engaged Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/02/2017
Investing in the health of a nation requires thoughtful deliberation and vision. Grantmakers, especially those with a focus on health, play a unique role in helping support community innovation that can advance health.
Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP
Release Date:
11/28/2017
Socially conscious investors can look forward to two new exchange-traded funds that aim to direct capital to companies that do well by minorities and women.
Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies
Release Date:
02/21/2018
... 5% of their endowments, putting 95% back into fund-related investments . In 2017, Ford pledged that it would deploy $1 ... of its endowment over the next decade on mission-related investments to match the...
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan
Release Date:
11/29/2018
... organizations to collect data that will inform how future investments can best reflect youth interests and create more ...
The New York Women’s Foundation Receives $2.25 Million Grant from CBS to support the Fund for the Me Too Movement and Allies
Release Date:
12/14/2018
The New York Women’s Foundation (The Foundation) today announced receipt of a $2.25 million grant from the CBS Corporation.
UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot
Release Date:
05/20/2019
UJA-Federation of New York announced today that its Day School Challenge Fund (DSCF) has generated $84 million in new endowment dollars for participating Jewish day schools and yeshivot in New York.
The Century Foundation Adds New Senior Fellow
Release Date:
03/01/2013
The Century Foundation has announced the addition of Michael Likosky as Senior Fellow. Likosky founded and directed the Center on Law & Public Finance at New York University, and was Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge.
Young Black Males and the Urgency of Now
Release Date:
11/19/2012
The Schott Foundation for Public Education’s new report paints a bleak picture—nationally, 52 percent of black males, 58 percent of Latino males, and 78 percent of white males graduate from high school in four years
The Secret to More Effective Philanthropy: Funding the Unknown
Release Date:
03/28/2013
... D.C. What’s often forgotten in discussions of social investments , and measurements of their success, is that the ...
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2012
Black Communities and Philanthropy: A Conversation on Past Trends, Current Challenges and the Future
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 -
8:30am to 11:00am
Philanthropy New York 79 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, NYC
... will share her views about opportunities for philanthropic investments in Black communities and how the sector could ...
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Feb
2013
TDA Plan Administrators' Annual Meeting: Philanthropy New York's 403(b) Tax-Deferred Annuity Retirement Program
Friday, February 22, 2013 -
8:15am to 11:00am
This is the annual meeting for plan administrators, with representatives from Diversified Investment Advisors and American Funds, our pension plan providers and Cammack LaRhette and Thesco Benefits, our brokers. Please join us for discussion around...
Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy
Release Date:
12/02/2013
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation President Nancy Roob shares with the Stanford Social Innovation Review how the foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works.
JPMorgan to Commit $100-Million to Boost Detroit’s Recovery
Release Date:
05/21/2014
Wall Street giant JPMorgan Chase will commit $100-million in grants and loans over five years to aid Detroit’s revitalization effort as the city recovers from the country’s largest municipal bankruptcy, The New York Times and the Detroit Free Press...