The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels
Release Date:
03/13/2014
... was not a household word when it became a central strategy for ending international cooperation with South Africa's .....
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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley
Release Date:
04/16/2014
The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, housed on the campus of the ... areas that facilitate collaboration…. Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley ...
Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans
Release Date:
09/18/2014
... with ObamaCare Plans A majority of people who signed up for ObamaCare over the last year are happy with their plans, ... survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit policy group . Another 61 percent believed...
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 ... spend-down of the foundation’s assets includes plans for larger-than-normal grants and...
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 ... increase in U.S. health-care costs while improving care for patients.... Improving Health Care Is...
President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations
Release Date:
12/17/2014
... to help undocumented immigrants who are eligible for temporary legal status under the president’s executive ...
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
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Among Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure In a seven-page ... SEC, organized by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy group Ceres, investors noted that the current low...
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
A New Lens for Disaster Recovery Natural disasters devastate ... having weathered the storm, and actively sought recovery for themselves and others, their voices are often absent from ... disaster and uniquely...
NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens
Release Date:
10/09/2015
NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens Dozens of local artists who ... 100 affordable housing units, including 50 units set aside for artists, according to the New York Community...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO
Release Date:
10/16/2015
... both are founding presidents of their groups, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. And they started their jobs ... they wish. Think of it as a MacArthur "...
New York Community Trust Adds Funds to the QueensWay Plan
Release Date:
10/16/2015
... red. The New York Community Trust has given the Trust for Public Land a $100,000 grant for the QueensWay, a proposed 3.5-mile elevated park that ... rail tracks, according to an Oct. 5 release detailing the...
The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit
... decade of research on nonprofit leadership, The Bridgespan Group has observed little change in the No. 1 organizational ... promotion in the past two years—about half the rate of for -profits. Even more concerning, this low promotion rate ...
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 ...
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
Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter Research into ... $125 million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new institute focused solely on the therapy and .....
Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages
Release Date:
04/06/2016
Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages Today, ... infrastructures; we have become an extremely challenging group to clearly define, limit, or categorize. Understanding...