SeaChange Capital Partners Announces New Fund to Make Program-Related Investments in New York City
Release Date:
11/24/2014
... NYPRI will seek opportunities to help organizations increase their impact while offering the potential for some ...
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NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning
Release Date:
01/12/2015
Additional qualities highlighted are self-control and curiosity.
MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
01/21/2015
... These services are essential to enable African farmers to increase productivity and incomes and, ultimately, grow rural ...
Ford Joins Other Major Foundations in Requiring Funded Projects to Be Open Through Creative Commons License
Release Date:
02/04/2015
... the work of its grantees more accessible and ultimately, increase its impact.... Ford Joins Other Major Foundations ...
MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa
Release Date:
03/17/2015
The five-year, $25.9 million partnership with TechnoServe will provide jobs and training for 48,000 young people in Rwanda, Kenya Tanzania and Uganda.
Rockefeller's Rodin Weighs in on What Nonprofits Will Look for in Potential Employees in 2020
Release Date:
04/09/2015
... With the economy on the rebound, we’ll likely see an increase in charitable giving, which lends itself to the ...
State Authority Wants $1.5 Billion for Renewable Energy Boost
Release Date:
06/04/2015
... would go toward funding major renewable projects meant to increase the state’s production. The proposal now heads ...
Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing
Release Date:
06/09/2015
The foundations will work with the Global Impact Investing Network.
Laurie M. Tisch Elected Co-Chair of Whitney Museum Board of Trustees
Release Date:
07/01/2015
Tisch has served on the board of the Whitney since 1996.
NoVo Foundation Looks to Girls As Change Agents
Release Date:
07/10/2015
The foundation looks to address the silence surrounding at-risk girls.
Weinberg Foundation Matching Grant Initiaitive Raises More than $9 Million for Workforce Development
Release Date:
08/20/2015
... development. Specifically, this 1:1 match program seeks to increase the number of funders, as well as the amount of ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research
Release Date:
09/17/2015
A new study shows that less than one percent of federal funding goes to risk research.
Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts
Release Date:
09/23/2015
... assets of $2.6 trillion had joined their effort, a 50-fold increase from a year ago and a sign that the divestment ...
The Gender Divide in Ballet Leadership and Choreography
Release Date:
09/29/2015
In the past, Ford Foundation and Wallace Foundation have worked to increase diversity in the arts.
National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project
Release Date:
10/30/2015
... Improve credit scores and expand access to credit; and Increase the availability of financial coaching and literacy ...
NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High
Release Date:
11/02/2015
Climate change, inequality and a broken criminal justice system are the issues du jour, and are also, increasingly, the focus of some of the nation’s largest philanthropies.
Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing
Release Date:
11/17/2015
There is a growing realization that, along with government aid and charitable philanthropy, financial institutions can help solve some of the world’s social problems.
Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
Release Date:
01/07/2016
The widespread use of suspension and expulsion in schools reflects a national belief in "zero tolerance" to set a tone of academic focus and seriousness and to maintain order and safety. Yet, is this effective discipline?
Guardian: Are Gates and Rockefeller Using Their Influence to Set Agenda in Poor States?
Release Date:
01/19/2016
Ultra-rich philanthropists and their foundations have increasing influence on decision-making and are setting the global health and agriculture agenda in developing countries, according to a major study.
Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities
Release Date:
02/04/2016
... the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of efforts to increase the number of Latino professors in the humanities at ...