Jennifer Correa has joined the staff of The Pinkerton Foundation, which supports community-based programs for children, youth, and families in economically disadvantaged areas in New York City, as an Associate Program Officer.
Altogether, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals made 847 grants to 636 organizations in 49 states during the first six months of this year. (ASPCA Vice President of Grants Management Michael Barrett is also quoted in this...
Join us for a discussion about the effects natural gas drilling has on community infrastructure. Amy Panek from the Park Foundation and Marilyn Bok from the Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers will also talk about their work to educate the...
All New York State funders are invited to participate in this special event at the Grantmakers Forum of New York's annual meeting. To solve complex community problems, grantmakers must work more closely with their grantees, community leaders and...
Usually, disasters bring out the best in people. Donations to charities surge as television coverage increases. Government agencies work closely with nonprofit organizations, private philanthropy and corporations. Yet we know from experience that...
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the appointment of Risë Wilson as their first-ever Director of Philanthropy. Wilson will join the senior staff of the Foundation and oversee all of its philanthropic programs, which support the...
The dream of many family foundation donors is to instill a lifelong love of philanthropy and giving back to future generations of one’s family. In some cases, this love of philanthropy translates into a desire on the part of younger family members...
The Simons Foundation has launched the Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem, with the goal of revolutionizing our ability to calculate and understand the properties of molecules and solids important in chemistry, physics and everyday...
Please join us to celebrate another year of organizing funders to transform our regional food system! Gather with colleagues for a relaxed evening featuring locally-sourced bites, wine and brews, networking and brief updates on CFF's work, and...
Governor Cuomo named Tow Foundation Executive Director, Emily Tow Jackson, to the Commission on Youth, Public Safety & Justice, which will provide concrete, actionable recommendations regarding youth in New York's criminal and juvenile justice...
The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today the launch of www.PoliticsOfSpecies.com , an online resource that takes a look at the way humans regard and interact with other...
[Ford Foundation] - President Darren Walker: Strategic philanthropy too often minimizes or ignores complexity because it is difficult to understand and predict.
[Edna McConnell Clark Foundation] Unless we invest more resources in our capacity to measure the performance and evaluate the impact of programs, how can funders and nonprofits be confident that they are making a real difference in people’s lives?
The Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation is awarding $652,000 to winners of a special grant initiative to support efforts to improve the lives of blind and visually impaired people
A new light rail line that connects the downtowns of Saint Paul and Minneapolis for the first time in decades is being hailed by the Ford Foundation as an example of how strategic public investments in transit and transit-oriented development can...
In an effort to raise the quality of teaching and learning in schools, The Wallace Foundation is investing $30 million over five years to help 14 urban school districts improve the effectiveness of their principal supervisors.
The idea of building a resilient city is not limited to a handful of people, but from workshops being conducted as part of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities Challenge, people from all walks of life want to be part of the effort.