Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings
Release Date:
12/09/2015
... 2010 he launched HelloWallet as a for-profit company, with investments from billionaire AOL founder Steve Case, venture ...
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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement
Release Date:
12/10/2015
... love. By emphasizing strategy and viewing grants as “ investments ,” donors prize head over heart and the spirit ...
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Expands SEED Program, Adding 3 Locales in 2016
Release Date:
12/11/2015
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the expansion of its SEED program, which focuses on innovation in arts and culture, into Appalachia, Houston, and Santa Fe in 2016.
Rita Allen Foundation Announces More Than $1.1 Million in Grants to Promote Early-Stage Approaches in Government and Journalism
Release Date:
12/18/2015
Recent grants from the Rita Allen Foundation support emerging efforts to expand opportunities for civic participation and knowledge sharing.
Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)
Release Date:
01/07/2016
Many experts concur that two of the challenges keeping people underserved, underbanked and underemployed are a lack of digital skills and financial literacy.
Peterson Foundation Says Obama Budget Doesn’t Address Unsustainable Debt
Release Date:
02/09/2016
... over the next 10 years, threatening to crowd out critical investments in our nation’s economic future." "Budgets .....
Five Questions for Pamela Shifman, Executive Director, NoVo Foundation
Release Date:
04/01/2016
Philanthropy News Digest interviews Pamela Shifman of the NoVo Foundation, a private foundation created in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett that has long worked in the U.S. and Global South. Last week, it announced a $90 million commitment to...
The Daphne Foundation Appoints Yvonne Moore to Its Board of Trustees
Release Date:
04/28/2016
... & Pierre N. Hauser, The Daphne Foundation focuses its investments in organizations that confront the causes and ...
Commonwealth Fund's Blumenthal on Patient Difficulties Accessing Medical Records
Release Date:
09/09/2016
“Average people encounter a huge amount of difficulty,” said David Blumenthal, a former national coordinator for health information technology for the Obama administration, now president of the Commonwealth Fund. He said he had heard countless...
Marlow Kee Named Chief Financial Officer at Simons Foundation
Release Date:
10/14/2016
... domestic and international financial operations, grants, investments and internal audit. Prior to working at PATH, Kee ...
NY Women’s Foundation Projects Precarious Situation for Young Girls Dependent on Struggling Caregivers
Release Date:
12/01/2016
Report finds that tens of thousands of low-income girls in NYC lack strong, consistent nurturance from well-supported and well-prepared adults.
Public-Private Partnership With Ford, Surdna, Niarchos, Bloomberg, Mellon, and Rockefeller Award Placemaking Grants Totaling $11 Million
Release Date:
12/09/2016
... in 187 communities with a total of $77.7 million in investments ... Public-Private Partnership With Ford, Surdna, ...
Arabella Advisors Study Finds Global Funds For Fossil Fuels Are On The Decline
Release Date:
02/02/2017
As the Trump administration threatens to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement and double up on efforts to revive a slowing fossil fuels industry, the rest of the world is pulling out of coal projects and redirecting investment towards renewables...
Arlene Isaacs-Lowe Named New President of the Moody’s Foundation
Release Date:
02/22/2017
... and academic boards including Enterprise Community Investments , NYSSCPA Career Opportunities in the Accounting ...
Ford Foundation Hires Detroit Native, Kevin Ryan, as Program Officer for its New Detroit Office
Release Date:
05/31/2017
Ford Foundation opens a Detroit office after 64-year hiatus and hires Detroit native and New York Foundation staffer as program officer.
The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced
Release Date:
06/05/2017
Early-career biomedical scientists who explore mechanisms of memory, injury and immunity in the nervous system and beyond, are recognized as young leaders in science.
Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published
Release Date:
07/26/2017
Current scientific research demonstrates that the first three years of a child’s life are the most important in terms of brain development. If we want children to start school prepared to learn, and to succeed, then we must support young children...
Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector
Release Date:
09/08/2017
In talking with the leaders of nonprofit organizations across the sector, there is a single truism that undergirds all of our conversations: limits on overhead create a pressure that deeply impacts the choices and tradeoffs leaders wrestle with...
The Tinker Foundation Announces Next President, Caroline Boyd Kronley
Release Date:
10/12/2017
The Tinker Foundation is pleased to announce that Caroline Boyd Kronley will succeed Renate Rennie as its next President.
George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations
Release Date:
10/18/2017
George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager and a major Democratic donor, has given $18 billion to his Open Society Foundations, one of the largest transfers of wealth ever made by a private donor to a single foundation.