Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP
Release Date:
11/28/2017
... capital to companies that do well by minorities and women. Using the values and mission of the National Association for ...
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MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People
Release Date:
11/28/2017
... be designed for how real people act, using insights from behavioral science. In the coming year, ...
The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico
Release Date:
11/30/2017
The “Resilient Puerto Rico Advisory Commission”—announced on November 16, 2017—will be an independent and inclusive body led by Puerto Ricans and designed to offer recommendations for how to use private, philanthropic, local government, and federal...
Sam Adler-Bell, Policy Associate at the Century Foundation, Spoke With WNYC About the Ongoing J20 Case
Release Date:
12/21/2017
... Foundation, discusses the arguments the government is using in the case, and the precedent the case could set... ...
JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth
Release Date:
01/23/2018
JPMorgan Chase today announced a $20 billion, five-year comprehensive investment to help its employees, and support job and local economic growth in the United States.
How Salesforce is Innovating Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Giving
Release Date:
03/09/2018
This year, Salesforce is rolling out the next stage in its compassionate capitalism game plan. Dubbed Philanthropy Cloud, it’s a “social giving platform” that riffs off the company’s widely used customer relationship management products to make...
Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners
Release Date:
03/23/2018
Citigroup is setting restrictions on the sale of firearms by its business customers, making it the first Wall Street bank to take a stance in the divisive nationwide gun control debate.
How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR
Release Date:
05/04/2018
... “an inside out and an outside in perspective”— using the company’s skills to work on a community’s ...
Bloomberg Supported Cities of Service Announces the Winners of Inaugural Engaged Cities Award
Release Date:
05/17/2018
... to address serious challenges. These cities are also using strategies such as civic tech, sophisticated data ...
Peter G. Peterson Foundation Funds Report Rethinking How Medicare Pays for Services
Release Date:
07/13/2018
For more than two decades, experts have warned that Medicare relies far too heavily on recommendations submitted by the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) when setting payment amounts for different physicians...
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards $29.3 Million to Hellenic Fire Service
Release Date:
07/31/2018
In the wake of catastrophic forest fires that raged for days just east of Athens, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation has announced a €25 million ($29.3 million) grant to the Hellenic Fire Service.
Aetna Foundation Supports Bike Sharing Initiative
Release Date:
10/12/2018
The North Wilkesboro-based Health Foundation Inc. has been awarded a $71,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation for a “North Wilkesboro on Wheels” bike-share program to improve local access to bicycles.
Impact Shares Gets $1M from Rockefeller Foundation
Release Date:
10/26/2018
The Rockefeller Foundation has given a $1 million grant to Dallas-based Impact Shares, which says it is the first 501(c)(3) nonprofit exchange-traded fund (ETF).
MetLife Foundation and MicroSave Launch "i3" Program in Vietnam
Release Date:
11/16/2018
... fintechs, and other financial service providers that are using technology to build products and services specifically ...
With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge
Release Date:
11/26/2018
The land, which runs along the Blue Mountain's Kittatinny Ridge, is being acquired from Pennsylvania American Water and will eventually be turned over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for public use.
The Rockefeller Foundation Announces the Communities Thrive Challenge Grantees
Release Date:
12/05/2018
Today, we are thrilled to share the names of the 10 organizations that will each receive a $1 million grant as part of the Communities Thrive Challenge, a joint funding opportunity from The Rockefeller Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Each...
Arcus Foundation Funded Report Finds Infrastructure Development Likely To Be “Devastating” for Wildlife, Ecological Integrity
Release Date:
02/26/2019
Arcus Foundation and Cambridge University Press published a report that examines the interaction between conservation of apes and their habitats with infrastructure development, including ways to minimize and mitigate the impact of infrastructure...
Bloomberg Awards $10 Million to Address Opioid Crisis in Michigan
Release Date:
03/17/2019
Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $10 million commitment in support of efforts in Michigan to address the large number of opioid overdose deaths in the state. Michigan is the second state (after Pennsylvania) selected to participate in a...
Study Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Antimicrobial Paints Have a Blind Spot
Release Date:
05/13/2019
Antimicrobial paints offer the promise of extra protection against bacteria. But Northwestern University researchers caution that these paints might be doing more harm than good.
PNY Members Among Those Named Crain's 50 Most Powerful Women in New York
Release Date:
06/03/2019
Announcing the 2019 Most Powerful Women.