Stavros Niarchos Foundation Launches Initiative to Protect Refugee Children in Greece
Release Date:
03/29/2016
... grant initiative to support nongovernmental organizations working to protect refugee children arriving in Greece. As ...
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Despite Legacy Connections, Rockefeller Family Fund Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments
Release Date:
04/04/2016
The Rockefeller Family Fund has long campaigned for green energy and against carbon emissions, so its fossil fuel investments certainly did not make sense ethically, but financially. Other organizations and investors are also questioning fossil fuel...
Nathan Cummings Foundation Selects Loren Harris as Vice President of Programs
Release Date:
04/19/2016
The Nathan Cummings Foundation announced that Loren S. Harris, a philanthropic leader with more than 20 years experience challenging structural barriers to equality and creating economic opportunity and social inclusion, will join the Foundation as...
Clark Foundation Illustrates Grantmaking for a Rainy Day
Release Date:
05/02/2016
... but following the 2008 financial crisis, Clark identified working capital as a much more critical need for the ...
U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance
Release Date:
05/31/2016
While there are distinct differences between younger and older owners, entrepreneurs of all ages share a strong desire to control their own destiny.
Citi Foundation Gives $20M to Accelerate Economic Opportunity in Six U.S. Cities
Release Date:
05/18/2016
Forty nonprofit organizations will use funds to address urban challenges ranging from affordable housing to environmental sustainability and infrastructure.
Alfred P. Sloan, Time Warner 'Fast Track Grant' Goes To Film That Explores Science and Technology
Release Date:
06/07/2016
Film Independent Selects 10 Projects And 20 Filmakers For 2016 Fast Track Program And Awards $20K Alfred P. Sloan Fast Track Grant To Mark Levinson For 'The Gold Bug Variations'
Carnegie Backs New Learning Pilot Targeting Interstate Passport Initiative
Release Date:
06/10/2016
Six institutions to use Aqua by Taskstream to assess student learning and proficiency as part of a new framework to aid student transfer and improve graduation rates.
F.B. Heron's Clara Miller on Changing Operating Models to Expand Effectiveness and Impact
Release Date:
06/10/2016
In this second of a two-part series, Clara Miller, president of the F.B. Heron Foundation, discusses the ways in which a change in the operating model of philanthropic foundations can expand their purviews, effectiveness and impact.
Supported by Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Riveting Short Film Takes You Under the Sea in 360 Degrees
Release Date:
06/21/2016
Few people will get to visit eastern Indonesia's remote Bird's Head region, but a new immersive film brings the crystalline waters and exceptionally diverse marine life directly to you.
Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships
Release Date:
07/08/2016
I grew up thinking journalism was just for rich white people. I was mostly right.
Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces
Release Date:
07/29/2016
This fall, a one-year general operating support grant of $12,500 will be awarded to an organization or project focused on the safety of marginalized LGBTQ communities.
Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy
Release Date:
08/22/2016
Thanassis Cambanis, senior fellow at the Century Foundation, advocates that the United States escalate its existing military intervention in Syria to raise the chances of a political solution to Syria’s civil war while limiting the potential for...
Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change
Release Date:
09/06/2016
As the globe continues to spin toward a future with higher temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease if farmers do not adapt to new management or technology practices.
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize
Release Date:
09/07/2016
At least five New York based scientists will each be awarded $200,000/year – for up to three years – to enable them to pursue groundbreaking research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking.
Rockefeller Foundation and New York City Join Forces to Fund Internships at Cultural Organizations
Release Date:
09/09/2016
The $1 million initiative, half financed by the city and the other half by the Rockefeller Foundation, will place City University of New York students as interns at places like Carnegie Hall, MoMA PS1 and the Museum of Natural History.
Ms. Foundation Releases New Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America
Release Date:
09/15/2016
... cost of the impact that a lack of access child care has on working mothers, especially low-income women of color. With ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions
Release Date:
09/19/2016
... interviews with mayors, artists and cultural leaders working together to develop risk-taking public art projects, ...
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices
Publication date:
09/2016
For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their strategy, culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they share what they have learned
Video: Rockefeller Features Jada Pinkett Smith in Latest Insight Dialogues
Release Date:
10/03/2016
On September 19th, Pinkett Smith joined Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin for the third edition of Insight Dialogues, touching on the many roles she balances in Hollywood, her vocal advocacy for girls and women and youth empowerment and...