The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels
Release Date:
03/13/2014
... Apartheid regime three decades ago, and we're proud to be an early member of the Divest-Invest Philanthropy .....
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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley
Release Date:
04/16/2014
... the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, held an opening celebration on March 31, 2014. The institute, ...
Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans
Release Date:
09/18/2014
... survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit policy group . Another 61 percent believed their plans were ...
Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars
Release Date:
11/03/2014
... made his fortune as a founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group , is making good on its promise to give away all of its ...
Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change
Release Date:
10/19/2014
... cancer. Oddly, this wasn’t obvious to one important group : philanthropists.... Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink ...
The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World
Release Date:
11/17/2014
The fund is backed by Open Society Institute, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, among others.
Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission
Release Date:
11/24/2014
... Next Mission Peter Peterson, the Blackstone Group LP co-founder who has championed the cause of U.S. debt ...
President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations
Release Date:
12/17/2014
... on immigration announced in November. All together, an estimated 5 million undocumented immigrants may be ...
Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films
Release Date:
01/22/2015
Rockefeller Foundation partnered with U.N. Women and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Among Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure
Release Date:
04/24/2015
... SEC, organized by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy group Ceres, investors noted that the current low price ...
Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism
Release Date:
08/03/2015
... East Africa bearing the brunt of the Somalia-based terror group Al-Shabaab.... Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That ...
A New Lens for Disaster Recovery
Release Date:
09/16/2015
New York Women's Foundation offers nine investment principles for supporting disaster relief and recovery among under-resourced women and families.
NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens
Release Date:
10/09/2015
... to the New York Community Trust, which awarded the group a $150,000 grant. The grant money would be split ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO
Release Date:
10/16/2015
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund along with the Ford, Hewlett, Kresge, Packard, and Robert Wood Johnson foundations awarded surprise $1.1-million unsolicited grants to two organizations that help grantmakers -- the Center for Effective Philanthropy and...
New York Community Trust Adds Funds to the QueensWay Plan
Release Date:
10/16/2015
... would be built upon the defunct rail tracks, according to an Oct. 5 release detailing the group ’s 84 total grants given to various nonprofits. ...
Luff to Leave Hess Corporation, CSR Operations to Move to Houston
Release Date:
11/24/2015
... Hess at the end of 2015. Paula built and led the CSR group for over eight years. In light of the shift in the ... will be smaller and based in Houston. Paula will remain an active PNY Board member and continue...
United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers
Release Date:
02/16/2016
Carol Levine, director of United Hospital Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, speaks on the stress helping with healthcare puts on caregivers, and advises possible solutions.
Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter
Release Date:
03/30/2016
... Kimmel, a philanthropist and founder of Jones Apparel Group . The institute, to be housed at the Sidney Kimmel ...
Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages
Release Date:
04/06/2016
... roles in countless infrastructures; we have become an extremely challenging group to clearly define, limit, or categorize. Understanding ... of outdated and reductionist paradigms and the adoption of ...
Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows
Release Date:
04/08/2016
... promise, the successful candidates were selected from a group of nearly three thousand applicants. One hundred and ... sixty-seven fellows have no academic affiliation or hold an adjunct or part-time position...