Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens
Release Date:
02/08/2017
Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens A 17- year -old from Bellerose, New York has taken volunteering to ...
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Mellon Foundation Supports African, Latin American and Native American Collections Research at Princeton
Release Date:
02/14/2017
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Princeton University a grant of $300,000 to support three years of specialist research in targeted areas of the collections as part of the Art Museum’s multiyear Collections Discovery Initiative.
Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia
Release Date:
04/03/2017
... of inflammatory bowel diseases in Asia. The three- year grants will support researchers affiliated with the ...
Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit
Release Date:
04/03/2017
The event connects Academy graduates with representatives of top leadership development programs to continue developing future nonprofit and social purpose leaders.
NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing
Release Date:
04/17/2017
... must spend at least 5 percent of their endowment every year on charitable purposes. In Ford’s case, that amounts ...
NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement
Release Date:
04/17/2017
This conversation features Talia DeRogatis , Public Policy and Community Engagement Liaison & Gabriella Marrero, student at Henry Street Settlement.
Supported by NY Community Trust, New Research Ties Arts to Well-Being
Release Date:
04/19/2017
... improve quality of life for ordinary New Yorkers. The two- year study, by the Social Impact of the Arts Project at Penn ...
Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation's Investment Committee
Release Date:
04/24/2017
Lisa joins John Levy (Chair), Myra Drucker and William Goetzmann, who currently serve as independent advisory members on the Investment Committee.
Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs
Release Date:
05/01/2017
A new study, billed as the first of its kind, by the Ford Foundation and the Kapor Center for Social Impact set out to better understand why people leave theoretically cush tech jobs.
Schott Honors Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Kavitha Mediratta and Landmark Education Campaign at 25th Anniversary Awards Gala
Release Date:
05/12/2017
On May 11, 2017, the Schott Foundation for Public Education marked 25 years of fighting to end educational inequities in America’s public schools by honoring grassroots, community and philanthropy figures who have led the charge for education...
Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution
Release Date:
05/12/2017
... in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution. The three- year awards are intended to help launch the careers of ...
Bloomberg Launches Worldwide Urban Public Health Initiative
Release Date:
05/18/2017
... accidents, which kill 44 million people globally each year . Because the majority of the world’s population lives ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement
Release Date:
05/19/2017
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that African- Americans and Latinos have less financial security than whites and will rely on fewer sources of income during retirement.
With Support from Carnegie, New Science Standards Deliver Students from Textbooks to ‘Real-World' Applications
Release Date:
05/19/2017
The framework of the standards, consisting of three different dimensions, is a vision of how the National Research Council indicates what it means to be proficient in science.
Bloomberg Backed “Global Street Design Guide” Now Available Free Online
Release Date:
05/22/2017
The Global Street Design Guide, a handbook for cities around the world to design safe, sustainable streets, is available to the public as for free online. The guide was funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has made road safety a top priority .
Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis
Release Date:
05/24/2017
... Refugee Crisis The Syrian conflict is now in its seventh year . According to the United Nations High Commissioner for ...
Clark Foundation-Sponsored Forum Considers How NY Nonprofit Contractors Can Address Late and Under Payment
Release Date:
05/25/2017
... City had owed one nonprofit $44 million for more than a year after services had been delivered. Bauer characterizes ...
Citi Foundation Announces $4M Youth Workforce Fund: Grant Opportunity for Nonprofits Connecting Young Adults to Employment
Release Date:
05/25/2017
... Progress, the $4 million competitive Fund will award one- year grants of up to $250,000 to community organizations in ...
Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... can cover outright. The good news is that, in just a year and a half since the call came out, the impact investing ...
Wallace, Ford, and Mellon on Strategies that Boost Arts Engagement Across Diverse Communities
Release Date:
06/09/2017
... be rolling out additional targeted studies over the next year . Mellon's grantmaking tends to focus on the young and .....