NoVo Foundation Celebrates International Women’s Day
Release Date:
03/09/2015
... has experienced physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner. Some 700 million women alive today were ...
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Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen
Release Date:
04/15/2015
... or whether civilians were among those killed. Now, working with the Open Society Justice Initiative, researchers ...
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows
Release Date:
04/15/2015
The foundation awards $2.7 million to support immigrants and the children of immigrants.
Howard Gilman Foundation Helps Bring the Arts to Public School Children
Release Date:
04/24/2015
The foundation has announced a $1.5 million grant to the National Dance Institute.
Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative
Release Date:
05/20/2015
The selected cities are Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Seattle.
Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research
Release Date:
05/26/2015
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has announced a $10 million gift Gerstner to expand cancer research efforts focused on overcoming drug resistance in tumor cells.
Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017
Release Date:
06/29/2015
The Alfred P. Sloan and James L. Knight Foundations have announced a $3.4 million investment in the initiative.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project
Release Date:
06/29/2015
... were selected to take advantage of one year of free co- working space in BCF’s new headquarters at 1000 Dean ...
Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase
Release Date:
07/09/2015
The investment will be divided among the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation, the New Jersey City University's Logistics Center, NPower and the Jersey City Internship Program.
Newman's Own Foundation Launches Fellowship Program
Release Date:
08/04/2015
The Fellows were selected based on demonstrated leadership skills, as well as commitment to social issues and community development.
What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond
Release Date:
08/10/2015
... the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond An experiment using a Social Impact Bond (SIB) to reduce the ... savings. Repayment of upfront funds is triggered when an independent evaluator certifies...
'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color
Release Date:
09/02/2015
In recent years, there have been few new efforts aimed at improving the lives of girls and young women of color.
Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects
Release Date:
09/21/2015
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is awarding more than $200,000 in grants to Connecticut nonprofits as part of an ongoing philanthropic initiative.
The John A. Hartford Foundation Approves Three Grants Totaling More Than $3.28 Million
Release Date:
09/29/2015
The grantees are Community Catalyst, The SCAN Foundation and ReFraming Aging.
The Source Codes of Foundation Culture
Publication date:
10/2015
... years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better understand what contributes to and impedes ... time and again is the importance of creating and nurturing an organizational culture that enables grantmakers to be most ... the personality, behaviors and underlying assumptions of an organization. While culture can be understood in various ...
Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace
Release Date:
10/13/2015
Research into what issues women face in the workplace finds equal pay, harassment, career opportunities,children, and work-life balance remain as concerns.
NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism
Release Date:
11/02/2015
Philanthropist Peter Buffett, co-president of the NoVo Foundation, says foundations sometimes try to solve the world's problems themselves rather than acting as facilitators of change.
Wallace Foundation Funds Research to Evaluate Public-Private Model in Buffalo Schools
Release Date:
11/03/2015
In its three years of offering college scholarships and other services to students in the Buffalo Public Schools, "Say Yes" has greatly expanded its reach and political influence in the city. Now, it will be evaluated to determine its success.
Jonas Center Supports Visionary Project Bringing New Light to End-of-Life Issues
Release Date:
11/03/2015
‘Dying in America,’ by photographer/filmmaker Carolyn Jones, launches website with resources for patients, families ahead of feature film.
Podcast: A Conversation with Gates Foundation's Health Expert Anita Zaidi
Release Date:
11/05/2015
... Conversations in Global Health seminar, Anita Zaidi, MD, an internationally recognized pediatrician and director of ...