Site Search

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Supporting NJ Food Banks

Release Date:

12/07/2015

... Charitable Foundation is contributing $2 for every $ 1 given to eligible food banks this year, up to a total match of $ 1 .5 million. . . Bank of America Charitable Foundation ...

Find More By

News type

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Funding Area

Food Systems

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide

Release Date:

01/04/2016

With tens of millions of dollars to spend thanks to backers like Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, gun control groups have secured a number of surprising recent successes in Connecticut, Delaware and elsewhere.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Public Policy

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps

Release Date:

02/22/2016

... of Mobile Health Apps Fewer than half of the more than 1 ,000 healthcare related-apps reviewed by researchers ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

The Commonwealth Fund

New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

03/07/2016

... Basic Research and leader of the Eye Cancer Site Disease Group at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the ... melanoma. Among uveal melanomas categorized as class 1 , those with high levels of the...

Find More By

News type

Research to Prevent Blindness

Funding Area

Health

Science

Related Organizations

Duke Foundation Supports Program for Vets & Active Military in Theatre Experience, Study & Creation

Release Date:

03/11/2016

... Experience, Study & Creation Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, is ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Veterans

Arabella Advisors Noted in NPR Report: Solutions that Could Help The U.S. Slash Food Waste

Release Date:

03/16/2016

Each year, an estimated 133 billion pounds of food that farmers grow never makes it to our plates. That's enough to fill 44 skyscrapers. And tons of it ends up in landfills, where it emits methane, a greenhouse gas.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Food Systems

Related Organizations

Arabella Advisors

NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

Release Date:

03/17/2016

Does philanthropy really have a useful role to play in transformative social movements?

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

NoVo Foundation

Arcus Foundation

Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council

Release Date:

03/21/2016

... 600 leaders in attendance, the luncheon raised nearly $ 1 million in support of the United Way of New York City’s ... Fund; Monique L. Nelson, chair and CEO of UniWorld Group ; Martine Reardon, chief marketing...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Related Organizations

Microsoft Joins Bloomberg, JPMorgan & Others in Supporting Smithsonian's Museum of African American History

Release Date:

03/25/2016

... African American History Microsoft Corp. has donated $ 1 million to the Smithsonian National Museum of African ... experience.” Other recent donations include $ 1 million from the Alfred Street Baptist Church...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

MetLife

Aetna Foundation

Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff

Release Date:

05/23/2016

... Street, where she helps oversee the nonprofit group ’s pro-democracy programs in Eurasia. The Foundations ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Open Society Foundations

With Support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Opera Philadelphia Appoints Rene Orth as Composer-in-Residence

Release Date:

06/17/2016

... In collaboration with New York’s Music-Theatre Group , Opera Philadelphia is proud to announce that Rene Orth ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Commonwealth Fund, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and John A. Hartford Foundations Combine Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs

Release Date:

07/29/2016

A coalition of national health foundations has announced the launch of a collaboration aimed at transforming care delivery for chronically ill patients with the greatest need.

Find More By

News type

Peterson Center on Healthcare

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

The Commonwealth Fund

The John A. Hartford Foundation

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

Release Date:

08/25/2016

... The Daily Progress (owned by Warren Buffet’s BH Media Group ) that serves the demanding news consumers of that ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Related Organizations

Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

Release Date:

10/07/2016

... while Chuck Feeney, co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group and founder of Atlantic Philanthropies, ranks as the ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

The Atlantic Philanthropies

Related Organizations

With Support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics

Release Date:

10/21/2016

In a study of white Americans’ attitudes and candidate preferences, we found that Trump’s success reflects the rise of “white identity politics” – an attempt to protect the collective interests of white voters via the ballot box. Whereas racial...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Civic Engagement

Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

Release Date:

11/18/2016

Mark Lilla, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, writes in the New York Times to advocate for a "post-identity liberalism."

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Public Policy

Related Organizations

Russell Sage Foundation

Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

Release Date:

11/22/2016

Exxon Mobile, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the threat of climate change, is trying to turn the tables by calling its opponents the real conspirators.

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Rockefeller Foundation

City Outside Monrovia Admitted to 100 Resilient Cities Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation

Release Date:

12/01/2016

... of Paynesville, outside Monrovia, has been admitted to the group of 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) pioneered by the ...

Find More By

News type

The Rockefeller Foundation

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

Release Date:

12/13/2016

... to campuses with high graduation rates by the year 2025. A group of 30 colleges and universities have signed on to the ... and Ithaka S+R. Bloomberg Philanthropies is providing $ 1 .7 million over two years to...

Find More By

News type