The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Seeks to Do Things Differently
Release Date:
04/13/2018
... number of coalitions aimed at making policy change, either state -wide or regionally…. The Silicon Valley Community ...
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United Way of New York City Names Gina Goodenow as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Release Date:
08/15/2018
... million entity. Gina is an active member of the New York State Society of CPAs and is the Past-President of ...
Open Society Foundations Announce 2019 Soros Equality Fellows
Release Date:
09/20/2019
The Open Society Foundations is pleased to announce the 2019 class of Soros Equality Fellows, a diverse group of artists, advocates, lawyers, and organizers whose work inspires advances in racial justice and equality in the United States.
How Rapid Assessments Can Help the Shift from Response to Recovery
Release Date:
05/13/2021
... working to understand how to most effectively deploy our resources beyond crisis response. Emerging market countries ... girls in urban India (supported by the U.K.’s Foreign Commonwealth Development...
Bloomberg Philanthropies and Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign Reaches Landmark Closure of 318th U.S. Coal Plant, on Track to Retire All Coal Plants by 2030
Release Date:
09/15/2020
... pounds of coal burned – and has improved air quality and health outcomes for communities around the country. Beyond ... resulted in an estimated annual savings of $3.6 billion in health care costs. “When we...
Dorothy Q. Thomas Named Interim CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women
Release Date:
08/22/2013
... Rights. In 2005, Thomas co-founded the U.S. Human Rights Fund , a collaborative grantmaking initiative to support ...
Rockefeller's Edwin Torres Joins the de Blasio Administration
Release Date:
09/16/2014
... by 150%; triple the rate of participation in New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) ...
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Expands SEED Program, Adding 3 Locales in 2016
Release Date:
12/11/2015
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the expansion of its SEED program, which focuses on innovation in arts and culture, into Appalachia, Houston, and Santa Fe in 2016.
New York Women's Foundation Joins Female-Led Investor Groups Targeting Weinstein Co. Acquisition
Release Date:
11/21/2017
... briefing books with details on the company’s financial state to prospective bidders early next week. The company is ... hearing on the Access Industries suit. Given the dire state of the company, with more...
Ford and Markle Foundations Support National Alliance To Increase College Graduation Rates
Release Date:
04/19/2018
... Eleven large research institutions, including Michigan State University, have come together across state and conference lines to increase the rate at which ...
With Support from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Nature Conservancy Invites Applications for Natural Climate Solutions Accelerator Grant
Release Date:
06/11/2019
... mechanisms to deploying natural solutions that landowners, state and federal governments, corporations, and other ...
Open Society Foundation Partners with Charles Koch Foundation to Launch Foreign Policy Think Tank
Release Date:
07/04/2019
... states. Quoting an 1821 speech by then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in which Adams argued that America ... Foundation have each contributed half a million dollars to fund the think tank's launch,...
Ford’s Walker Says ‘Unusual Coalition’ Won’t Be Last of its Kind
Release Date:
02/20/2015
... a statement of surrender and an indictment of our judicial system . Legal scholar Michelle Alexander powerfully makes ... more African Americans are part of the criminal justice system today than were enslaved...
Ford Foundation Announces Three New Concentration Areas
Release Date:
01/18/2018
... identity, ability, or income. In our society, the justice system favors the privileged and powerful over the poor and ...
26
Sep
2023
The "Attica" Uprising: A Screening & Discussion Over 50 Years Later
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 -
5:00pm to 7:30pm
... of 1971 there were almost 200,000 people in the U.S prison system . Caging people was deemed fundamentally harmful and ... Four days later, Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered state troopers to storm the prison...
13
Apr
2022
2022 New York Age-Friendly Funders Network - Spring Meeting
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 -
10:30am to 12:00pm
... Funders Network is a peer network of grantmakers who fund or are interested in the program area of healthy aging ... Grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of health care older adult services...
26
Jun
2014
Foundations for Social Impact Bonds
Thursday, June 26, 2014 -
8:30am to 11:00am
... demand and support ongoing projects: Working directly with state and local government; Building provider capacity to ... viability for government as a payor; Supporting robust performance measurement and...
08
Nov
2017
Social Impact Means Investing in Leadership: Successful Models featuring Echoing Green and King Baudouin Foundation’s 2017 African Development Prize Winners
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Join Philanthropy New York’s International Grantmakers Network (IGN) and its Committee for Equitable and Inclusive Philanthropy (CEIP), the King Baudouin Foundation United States, and Echoing Green, for a rare opportunity for a conversation with the...
18
Jun
2012
9th Annual Games for Change Festival
Monday, June 18, 2012 - 8:00am to Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 6:30pm
NYU Skirball Center 655 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square, NYC
... National Endowment for the Arts, National Institutes of Health , the Smithsonian, State Department, and the National Endowment for the ... Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona ...
Nonprofit New York Announces New President & CEO, Meg Barnette
Release Date:
03/26/2020
... She led the development of a new, nationally recognized health center in Queens, and played a key role in ... with four other Planned Parenthood Affiliates in New York State to become PPGNY. Meg is a leader in...