NoVo Grant Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Fight Prostitution Charges
Release Date:
05/19/2015
Legal Aid works to vacate the records of sex trafficking victims.
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Casey Family Programs Announces Winner of the 2015 Casey Excellence for Children Award
Release Date:
05/21/2015
... Center for Native American Youth has been a leader in advancing the well-being of some of our most vulnerable ...
Arcus Releases Statement Responding to United States Supreme Court Marriage Ruling
Release Date:
06/26/2015
... to continue working side-by-side with so many that are advancing full lived equality for all LGBT people ...
Weinberg Foundation Matching Grant Initiaitive Raises More than $9 Million for Workforce Development
Release Date:
08/20/2015
The program supports 29 organizations in United States and Israel.
Simons Foundation Partners with Kennedy Krieger’s Interactive Autism Network, Provides $2.18 Million in Funding
Release Date:
08/27/2015
The funding will support expansion of the nation's largest online autism research initiative.
$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities
Release Date:
09/02/2015
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded the University of Pennsylvania a $2 million grant to support University initiatives in the digital humanities in both Penn Arts & Sciences and Penn Libraries.
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.
UU Veatch's Molly Schultz Hafid joins NCRP's Board of Directors
Release Date:
09/25/2015
Hafid is one of four newly-elected nonprofit leaders to NCRP's board of directors.
Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers
Release Date:
02/16/2016
Gov. Andrew Cuomo voiced support Sunday for New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s call to close Rikers Island.
Ford Foundation Appoints John Irons as Director of Inclusive Economies
Release Date:
05/19/2016
An economist by training, Irons led work on U.S. employment, including employment in a green economy, and a project on state and metropolitan innovation in partnership with the Brookings Institution.
Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces
Release Date:
07/29/2016
This fall, a one-year general operating support grant of $12,500 will be awarded to an organization or project focused on the safety of marginalized LGBTQ communities.
Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative
Release Date:
08/26/2016
... announced the launch of a joint initiative aimed at advancing leadership, management, and innovation in cities ...
Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum
Release Date:
09/28/2016
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum announces the appointment of Camille Ann Brewer as the museum’s first full-time curator of contemporary textile art.
Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity
Release Date:
02/27/2017
The Intersectional Self questions how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have shifted in the context of newly defined gender identities, and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through relatively recent advances...
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness
Release Date:
03/03/2017
If ever there were a problem that might seem tailor-made for philanthropy, it's fighting blindness. Losing sight is a horrifying fate for anyone to contemplate, and it's not surprising that blindness has motivated some deep-pocketed donors for at...
Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research
Release Date:
03/21/2017
The University of Edinburgh has announced a £20 million ($24.5 million) grant from the Simons Foundation in support of pioneering studies into the biological mechanisms that underpin changes in brain development associated with autism.
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens
Release Date:
04/14/2017
The foundation is particularly interested in applicants with training in different fields who want to apply their experience to understanding the role of microorganisms in shaping ocean processes and vice versa, including applicants with experience...
Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Awards Research Fellowships to 35 Scholars for Important Work in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Release Date:
04/26/2017
Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced 35 recipients of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie fellowships, with awards totaling $7 million.
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair
Release Date:
06/02/2017
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today announced that Mr. Robert T. Kelly, Jr., who has served as a trustee of the Weinberg Foundation since 2006, has been elected as chair of...
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,...