Nourishing Strong Communities: Thoughts on Food Policy from Karen Karp
Release Date:
03/15/2010
... ways that the public, private, and government sectors are working together to improve the food system. This program was ...
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Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice Pedro Abramovay to Join Open Society Foundations
Release Date:
08/22/2013
... entrenched issues facing the region, and I look forward to working with him.” Abramovay was nominated to become ...
Personal Strategy: Mobilizing Your Self for Effective Grantmaking
Publication date:
09/2005
Whether it's introducing new ideas into your foundation or offering constructive feedback to a grantee, grantmakers can develop personal strategies to meet the "soft" challenges of grantmaking. Effective personal strategy helps practitioners use their understanding of self and role - as learner, analyst, bridge builder - to manage the tensions that come with the job. In this guide, contributors discuss the elements of personal strategy and how it helps grantmakers to leverage their strengths in service to their objectives. The guide also explores why some grantmakers are able to think and...
TD Charitable Foundation Awards $2.5 Million for Affordable Housing
Release Date:
12/11/2012
... annual Housing for Everyone competition to nonprofits working to provide transitional housing and homeless shelters ...
Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms
Release Date:
02/15/2013
Mr. Bagwell, a director and producer of some of the most influential documentaries about the civil rights movement and the black American experience, will leave the foundation in June to make his own documentaries once again.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Announces $10.9 Million in Grants to Greek Organizations
Release Date:
02/05/2013
The organizations are working to ease the effects of the ongoing socioeconomic ...
With Latest $350 Million Gift to Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg Surpasses $1 Billion in Giving to Alma Mater
Release Date:
01/29/2013
The gift includes $250 million in support of a $1 billion effort to facilitate cross-disciplinary work across the university. Mayor Bloomberg, who earned his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1964, made his first donation, a...
The Met and Crystal Bridges to Share a Trumbull Portrait
Release Date:
03/14/2013
A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, the celebrated Revolutionary War-era painter, has been given by its owner, Credit Suisse, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas in a 50-50...
CECP Announces 2013 Excellence Awards in Corporate Philanthropy
Release Date:
02/26/2013
The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy awarded its Chairman's Award to IBM for the Smarter Cities Challenge, a three-year, $50 million competitive grant program to make cities around the world smarter and more livable.
Carnegie Corporation Commits $15 Million for Rethinking School Design
Release Date:
03/25/2013
This initial commitment to support district-based school design work uses the principles in a new Carnegie Corporation report as a starting point.
William T. Grant Foundation Awards $1.7 Million for Research to Benefit Youth
Release Date:
08/03/2013
... million are in support of researchers and organizations working to understand and improve the environments in which ...
Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passes Legislature
Release Date:
09/12/2013
Bend the Arc was among the organizations mobilizing support in California on behalf of legislation requiring overtime pay for domestic employees, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
B. Altman, a Store From Yesteryear, Still Makes Its Presence Felt in the City
Release Date:
11/28/2013
The New York Times examined the history and work of the Altman Foundation and spoke with its president, Jane B. O'Connell, who is the daughter and sister of the last two presidents of the store and the foundation.
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 Plans to Unveil a Program for Job Skills
Release Date:
12/11/2013
JPMorgan Chase's new $250 million initiative aims to close the "skills gap in in some of the largest United States and European job markets, reports The New York Times.
New York Life Foundation Awards $1.4 Million to National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
Release Date:
12/23/2013
A four-year grant from the New York Life Foundation will build the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement's capacity to provide bereavement resources in schools, reports Philanthropy News Digest.
Spending Down the Family Foundation
Release Date:
03/10/2014
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors CEO Melissa Berman and Arabella Advisors Managing Director Elliot Berger share their thoughts in a Wall Street Journal article on the growing spend-down trend at family foundations.
Peggy Saika Named a 2014 North Star Award Honoree
Release Date:
04/15/2014
Peggy Saika, President and Executive Director of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy has been named a 2014 North Star Award Honoree for her commitment and work in social justice.
The F.B. Heron Foundation Welcomes New Team Members
Release Date:
04/15/2014
... in International Affairs. She brings 5 years of experience working as a research analyst at the investment consulting ... is currently an MBA student at Columbia University and working part-time with Heron as...
Effective Philanthropy Takes Time
Release Date:
06/26/2014
... Foundation, discusses why effective philanthropy is about working toward a long-term goal, even if change is barely ...