Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/01/2017
... movement. Many of these early adopters are, in fact, working on a meta level, trying to change how the ...
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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years
Release Date:
08/09/2017
Dozens of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. Carpenter is one in an army of social justice change agents that the Baltimore office of the...
Executive Director of the Staten Island Foundation to be Honored by City & State NY Media Company
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... as one of the most influential individals living or working in Staten Island. As City & State visits Staten ... who are 25 prominent individuals living or working in Staten Island in five key sectors. The...
Raising Money from the Modern Family
Release Date:
09/06/2017
When fundraising efforts focus on couples, nonprofits miss some of their best potential donors. The typical donor profile is shifting fast, in part because women are often earning as much as or more than their husbands.
From the Ground Up
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... model" created by locals, funders, and government agencies working together as equals. Global developmental mandates and .....
Opinion: A Bipartisan Approach to Stabilizing Our Nation’s Health Insurance System
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... efforts, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are working together on something all sides can agree upon: ... menu of plans to buy on their exchange. We have been working for months — on both sides of the...
Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Almost seven years after winning high-profile competition, Cornell Tech opens on Roosevelt Island, with 30 faculty members and almost 300 graduate students.
The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’s Hard.
Release Date:
09/21/2017
A new health care bill before the Senate would require every state in the country to make a ssoup-to-nuts evaluation of how they’d like their health care systems to work, to build such a system and be ready to open their doors in substantially less...
Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... criminal justice system that are afoot, city officials are working with top data scientists to develop a computerized ... more pretrial defendants out of the city’s jails while working to eventually end cash...
Kathy Halbreich of MoMA to Lead Rauschenberg Foundation
Release Date:
09/28/2017
MOMA's Kathy Halbreich has decided to leave the museum to head the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Manhattan as its new executive director.
NADA to Launch Acquisition Gift Fund for Pérez Art Museum Miami
Release Date:
10/05/2017
With the Bass Museum of Art reopening this month and the Institute of Contemporary Art putting the finishing touches on its new permanent home, this season is a big one for the Miami museum world, and this December, an art fair has a plan to help an...
Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational
Release Date:
10/10/2017
Thaler showed how very human traits, such as lack of self-control, habits, and fear of losing pushed people toward decisions that were not the most advantageous in the long term.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Exploration Into Labor and Civil Rights History at National Park Service
Release Date:
11/28/2017
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides a nearly $1 million grant to the National Park Foundation to establish the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Fellows, three new research positions that will allow the service to expand its storytelling...
Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”
Release Date:
12/20/2017
... this. Wallace’s approach is grounded in the notion of “ working in and through” the marketplace of ideas to find ...
Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Former Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground, Will Join Foundation For A Just Society
Release Date:
02/01/2018
Paulina Helm-Hernandez, former co-director of Southerners on New Ground, will join Foundation for a Just Society as a Program officer focusing on the US Southeast.
William Randolph Hearst Foundations Provides Hefty Grant to SOPAC to Partner with School District
Release Date:
04/26/2018
The South Orange Performing Arts Center received a $75,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundations to advance its arts education program.
Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows
Release Date:
07/24/2018
Hundreds of changemakers working to solve pressing inequality issues around the world.
Gary Stehr Appointed Altman Foundation Chief Financial Officer
Release Date:
10/31/2018
Gary Stehr Appointed Altman Foundation Chief Financial Officer The Altman Foundation announces that Gary Stehr has been appointed Chief Financial Officer as of November 1, 2018. Mr. Stehr will oversee the Foundation's finance and accounting...
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Announces the Election of Ana Marie Argilagos and Anand Babu to Its Board of Directors
Release Date:
01/29/2019
... (HIP), a network of foundations and philanthropists working to increase the power and influence of Latino ...
Weinberg Foundation Partners with Major Donors in Groundbreaking $25M National Initiative to Increase Mobility from Poverty
Release Date:
02/04/2019
A pioneering $25 million, four-year initiative to spur the development of new solutions to sustainably lift families out of poverty, and to promote dynamic leaders who will aim to change the national conversation around social and economic mobility...