When the Biomedical Industry Can’t Prioritize Diseases, Private Money Can Save Lives
Release Date:
09/19/2014
Foundations like the Helmsley Charitable Trust fund groundbreaking research when the medical industry refuses to do so.
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New Philanthropy Center, Fund for 2025 Respond to Funders’ Needs
Release Date:
10/24/2014
PNY SVP, Michael Remaley, contributed a blog to PhilanTopic about how the Fund for 2025 addresses the needs of PNY members.
NYCT Believes Backing STEM Education is Critical to Building a Strong Workforce
Release Date:
04/28/2015
Patricia Jenny, VP for Grants, discusses the need for tech-focused investments so NYC can stay competitive.
United Way of New York City Partners With Bank of America for Volunteer Day of Action
Release Date:
05/13/2015
One hundred volunteers assembled 2000 "Basics for Babies" kits.
U.S.-Cuba Thaw Reverberating Through Nonprofits
Release Date:
06/04/2015
Ford Foundation and other international funders have received inquiries about working in Cuba.
PNY Offers Unique Benefits to Family Foundations
Release Date:
06/15/2015
How can Philanthropy New York be more supportive to family foundation staff and trustees?
City Year Receives $2.5 Million Grant from the New York Life Foundation
Release Date:
06/16/2015
The funding will impact as many as 150,000 middle school students.
Michael Burke Joins New York Life Foundation as COO
Release Date:
06/22/2015
New York Life announced that Michael Burke has joined the company as chief operating officer, New York Life Foundation and corporate vice president in the Corporate Responsibility Department.
Do Corporate Grantmakers Care More About the Poor Than Other Foundations?
Release Date:
06/30/2015
Corporate foundations like JPMorgan Chase have increased giving to underserved communities by as much as 40 percent in the last decade.
Bloomberg's Investment in Renewable Energy Instrumental in Phase Out of the United States' 200th Coal Plant
Release Date:
07/16/2015
In 2009, the pollution from the 200 coal plants now slated for retirement caused 6,000 heart attacks, 60,000 asthma attacks and 3,600 deaths each year.
The Century Foundation Welcomes New Trustees Sonal Shah and Damon Silvers
Release Date:
09/25/2015
Sonal Shah and Damon Silvers will be joining The Century Foundation board of trustees. Together they bring decades of rich experience in public service, social innovation, and economics to TCF.
Is Travel the New Face of Philanthropy?
Release Date:
09/28/2015
... has always been considered one of the most generous nations , but now there's even more evidence in a new study .....
Jessie Smith Noyes At Top of the List of Family Foundations Who Fund Social Justice Work
Release Date:
10/07/2015
The Noyes Foundation devotes 74 percent of grant dollars to social justice causes.
Atlantic and Bronfman Philanthropies Among Those Profiled for Spend Down Strategies
Release Date:
10/08/2015
Questions abound regarding how best to sunset. When should the spend-down begin and end? What practical challenges does it entail?
MetLife Foundation Supports Expansion of Green Schoolyard Initiative
Release Date:
10/20/2015
The MetLife Foundation joined other private funders and the Trust for Public Land in a green schoolyards initiative in Philadelphia.
Ellen Liu, Director of Women's Health, Ms. Foundation for Women, Selected as American Express NGen Fellow
Release Date:
10/27/2015
... of Grantmaking, Development and Communications, First Nations Development Institute Michele Frix, Director of ...
Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)
Release Date:
11/12/2015
At Communities In Schools, we went through a decade-long effort to emphasize quality over scale, writes Dan Cardinali, CIS president.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces New VP of Programs Kaberi Banerjee Murthy
Release Date:
12/02/2015
Brooklyn Community Foundation is pleased to welcome Kaberi Banerjee Murthy as the organization’s new Vice President of Programs.
Critics of Health Insurer Mergers Urge States to Act; Commonwealth Fund Quoted
Release Date:
12/03/2015
Eric Schneider, senior vice president for policy and research at the Commonwealth Fund, notes that state regulators typically have been more active in intervening against proposed mergers of providers such as hospitals in their states.
Commonwealth Fund Scorecard: New York Ranked 13th in Overall State of Health
Release Date:
12/11/2015
New York may be ranked 3rd for per capita health funding, but it is 40th when it comes to physical activity according to the 26th American’s Health Rankings Annual Report. In addition, New York was ranked 13th in the nation on a separate scorecard...