Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million
Release Date:
11/21/2014
... First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million A new , seven-foundation partnership created to support ...
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Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities
Release Date:
12/10/2014
... to historic buildings or passing bonds to pay for new fiber networks. Though the group is in its infancy, ...
How Public Policy Can Support Collective Impact
Publication date:
12/2014
... How Public Policy Can Support Collective Impact, a new learning brief co-authored by FSG and the Forum for Youth ...
MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
01/21/2015
... Roy, President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation. "This new Fund will stimulate private sector organizations to .....
Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Warns Against Education Tax Credit
Release Date:
01/30/2015
... education tax credit, or ETC, a term unfamiliar to most New Yorkers. We would all do well to pay better attention, as ...
Increasing Public Understanding of Muslim Societies Drives Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program
Release Date:
03/16/2015
... is awarding nine U.S. nonprofit organizations a total of $ 1 ,653,698 in grants as a result of the Building Bridges ... than1.6 billion Muslims—we need imaginative ways to open new pathways for connection and...
MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa
Release Date:
03/17/2015
... formal jobs or explore opportunities in agriculture. The new program is noteworthy not only for its scope, but for its ...
Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark
Release Date:
03/12/2015
... and AeroFarms, together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), announce ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing
Release Date:
03/19/2015
... prompting many in the foundation world to operate in new ways — and with approaches that could eventually turn ...
Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
Release Date:
03/25/2015
... for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) today announced a $ 1 million pledge from the MasterCard Center for Inclusive ... The Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project is a new NFTE initiative which offers dedicated...
Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'
Release Date:
04/03/2015
... $515,000 to technology and media organizations to "support new work to build civic literacy and engagement...." Rita .....
Atlantic Awards $14.8 Million to Transform the U. S. Health Care System
Release Date:
04/06/2015
... to assess the financial complexity and risk involved with new models of care. The funds also will support efforts to ...
Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017
Release Date:
04/10/2015
... Michael Brune said at an event Wednesday announcing the new goal.... Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project
Release Date:
04/13/2015
... Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities ...
JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good
Release Date:
05/21/2015
... designed to address global economic challenges. The new think tank released a groundbreaking inaugural report, ...
Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education
Release Date:
06/01/2015
... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include .....
Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd
Release Date:
06/04/2015
... should highlight a more surprising possible engine of new employment for Americans: China. China’s middle ...
Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research
Release Date:
06/11/2015
... that drive cancer drug resistance and pave the way for new treatments. “Cancer treatment has seen amazing ...
John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes
Release Date:
06/12/2015
... research that has been shown to reduce the number of new type 2 diabetes cases among Medicare-age individuals by ... of 173 local Y associations, to reach a total of least 1 ,124 of each Y's program sites...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients
Release Date:
06/16/2015
... Doris Duke Impact Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $ 1 .6 million to 20 new grantees. Since April 2014, the foundation has awarded a ...