NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member
Release Date:
10/31/2016
... Would Mr. Walker’s day job and his new board duties be working at cross-purposes? NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s ...
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Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition
Release Date:
01/10/2017
The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur Charles F. Feeney '56, has made a $7 million grant to The Cornell Tradition, a fellowship program offering distinctive service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the...
Weinberg Foundation Announces New Chief Financial Officer
Release Date:
03/20/2017
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has named Craig Mellendick as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Foundation.
Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia
Release Date:
04/03/2017
... Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gut Microbiota) consortium working to identify microbial organisms and related dietary ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust and Tiffany & Co. Foundation Support Effort to Untangle a Growing Web of Ocean Conservation Funding
Release Date:
04/26/2017
A new online effort hopes to provide a centralized entry point into the variety of work happening in marine conservation and its funding sources.
The Peterson Center on Healthcare Aims to Transform U.S. Healthcare
Release Date:
05/15/2017
... are many opportunities to transform American healthcare into a high-performing system that provides higher quality ...
Bloomberg Launches Worldwide Urban Public Health Initiative
Release Date:
05/18/2017
Bloomberg Philanthropies will launch the Partnership for Healthy Cities to focus on fighting noncommunicable diseases - including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and respiratory diseases - and injuries.
A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others
Release Date:
05/23/2017
... and technology consulting firm in Virginia, which is working to fund health clinics and programs addressing child ...
Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students
Release Date:
06/28/2017
William T. Grant Foundation supported research at Stanford which found African-American and Latino students who completed self-affirming writing exercises in middle school took more challenging courses and were more likely to enroll in college,...
Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award
Release Date:
07/20/2017
One in four people in the world is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the system of formal financial services which can serve as bridge out of poverty. As a direct result of its Inclusive Finance efforts—led by Bob Annibale, global director...
Verizon Foundation: Innovative Learning Program Addresses Lack of Women in STEM Careers
Release Date:
07/24/2017
... of the workforces are women. And the number of women working at tech companies is seriously low. Men make up 80 ...
Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders
Release Date:
07/25/2017
... rifles than shotguns. “The drugs we have now are not working for these brain disorders,” said Coba, senior ...
Ford Foundation: On Privilege - Why Discomfort Is A Sign Of Progress
Release Date:
07/31/2017
I could not stop thinking about my initial discomfort. It nagged at me. What had caused this feeling of displacement? This was not my first time in an elite space. And I'm actually accustomed to feeling like I don’t fit in with those kinds of...
Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative
Release Date:
08/09/2017
... processors, designers, and retailers. They are working together to reconceive “waste” that occurs at ...
At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.
Release Date:
08/28/2017
As president of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy operations. The charitable grant-making arm of the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity each year; in...
Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... I felt as my husband and I welcomed our daughter Norah into the world. I couldn’t have imagined the rush of ...
Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... joint efforts among public sector leaders, those working with or in government know too well that such ...
Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership
Release Date:
09/19/2017
A conversation with Williamson Foundation's ED Caroline Williams explores how the foundation uses adaptive leadership, the framework developed by Dr. Ronald Heifetz and colleagues at Harvard’s Kennedy School, as a form of reflective practice.
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will develop theories of how ...
Experts Analyze Mayor De Blasio's Jobs Plan
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... on Wednesday by the Center for An Urban Future delved into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to create 100,000 ...