John A. Hartford Foundation Named One of Nation’s Top Funders Addressing Aging America
Release Date:
12/15/2017
... its work has focused on affordable housing in an effort to keep poverty rates low among older people. Many of the ...
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With Support from Gerstner and Heckscher Foundations, SUNY Announces Emergency Aid to Support Degree Completion Among Students
Release Date:
12/19/2017
... statewide selected to participate, and its goal will be to keep students on track to graduate even when unforeseen or ...
Trinity Joins Brief Filed in Support of Dreamers
Release Date:
01/29/2018
Trinity joined 86 other religious organizations that recently filed an amicus curiae brief supporting an injunction against overturning DACA “on the basis of faith and morality, that these children and young adults must be protected.”
Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body
Release Date:
02/06/2018
The study in mice found that a brain region called the lateral vestibular nucleus, or LVN, accomplishes this feat by moving muscles in a two-step, kneejerk response that first widens the animal's center of gravity, and then strengthens and...
Annie E. Casey Foundation Funded Research Shows Close to Home is Worth Fighting For
Release Date:
03/30/2018
... on the program’s results in the midst of the effort to keep it alive. “You can’t continue to reform like this ...
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Seeks to Do Things Differently
Release Date:
04/13/2018
From the start, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation sought to do things differently. Its mission, which Carson calls a “radical departure” from the way other community foundations operate, is emblazoned on the wall right outside of Carson’s...
Silicon Valley Community Foundation Statement on Allegations of Workplace Misconduct
Release Date:
04/19/2018
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a values-driven organization, built on the contributions and the selfless efforts of our entire network. Of the core values at SVCF, accountability and transparency have helped our organization grow to where it...
New Report Supported By The New York Community Trust and United Hospital Fund Examines Threat Posed By The Federal Association Health Plan Regulation
Release Date:
06/11/2018
A proposed federal rule on Association Health Plans (AHPs), expected to be finalized soon, could further destabilize New York’s small and individual health insurance markets by making it easier for sponsors to create healthier groups for coverage...
Atlantic Philanthropies Shares Its Top Ten Lessons Learned in Hindsight
Release Date:
06/19/2018
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Inside Philanthropy Looks at The Helmsley Charitable Trust Work to Improve Stroke Outcomes in Rural America
Release Date:
09/11/2018
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust is one foundation that keeps the healthcare needs of rural communities in mind, particularly in the upper Midwest. A recent example is the three-year, $6.5 million grant out of its Rural Healthcare...
Report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Finds Funder Collaboratives for Systems Change Gaining Momentum
Release Date:
10/01/2018
Based on interviews with three dozen individuals who work with or in funder collaboratives or organizations focused on achieving the kind of scale needed to create systemic change, the report, Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems: Approaches...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Funded Research Solves Genetic ‘Whodunnit’ for Cancer Gene
Release Date:
11/09/2018
... gauge for the cell, overseeing energy input and output to keep the cell running smoothly. Similar to a car sensor ...
New Study Funded in Part by Simons Foundation Study Hopes to Predict Autism Behaviors
Release Date:
11/26/2018
... his freshman year in high school and then he could not keep it together as much,” she said. “Now his world is ...
OpEd: CEO Lori Bezahler on Edward W. Hazen Foundation’s Decision to Empty Its Coffers
Release Date:
03/06/2019
... their communities together to challenge the systems that keep them from thriving or even surviving. With so much in ...
Markle Foundation’s Skillful Initiative Welcomes 35 Career Coaches From Indiana for its First Convening Governor’s Coaching Corps
Release Date:
03/19/2019
... and job seekers to become lifelong learners who can keep pace with the evolving needs of a digital economy... ...
Pennsylvania Joins Skillful State Network, Initiative of the Markle Foundation
Release Date:
04/18/2019
... workers need to thrive and how to break down barriers that keep too many people from working... Pennsylvania Joins ...
Four Foundations, Including Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Buy Historic Archives of 'Ebony' Magazine
Release Date:
07/25/2019
... which came together to buy the archive in just a week to keep it from disappearing into private hands, plan to donate ...
Amalgamated Foundation Launches the Frontline Workers Fund in Response to COVID-19
Release Date:
04/01/2020
Amalgamated Foundation is committed to the power of collective giving. As our community grows, on this page we will highlight collective giving opportunities, including funding collaboratives, giving circles, and rapid response initiatives.
Pfizer Foundation Awards Grant to the Maryland Department of Health to Address Decreases in Childhood Vaccinations During COVID-19 Pandemic
Release Date:
07/21/2020
The grant will be used for communications, outreach and vaccination clinics in areas showing the most significant declines.
Reimagining Learning (From This Moment and With Each Other)
Release Date:
10/21/2020
... to ask ourselves: What can we let go of? What should we keep ? And what do we want to co-create together with our ... perfectionism, either/or thinking, sense of urgency)? Keep … more reflective practice Since...