National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project
Release Date:
10/30/2015
... grant period, NLC will work with local leaders and their community partners to build a citywide approach focused on ...
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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.
Bloomberg Philanthropies-Backed Report: U.S. Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years
Release Date:
11/05/2015
... Congress and work directly in states and with local community groups." . . . Bloomberg Philanthropies-Backed .....
Tech Companies Lead the Way on Paid Family Leave, and the Rest of the Country Should Catch Up - Century Foundation Study
Release Date:
11/13/2015
When it comes to paid family leave, the United States has a dismal record. But one industry is leading the way on family leave policies: the technology sector.
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Supporting NJ Food Banks
Release Date:
12/07/2015
... the Feeding America organization with Bank of America, the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, the Food Bank of South ...
MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab
Release Date:
12/08/2015
... It will partner directly with banks, credit unions, community colleges, employers and other nonprofit ...
Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls
Release Date:
02/05/2016
... by NewMexicoWomen.Org, a program of the New Mexico Community Foundation designed to address issues affecting the ...
Century Foundation: A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN
Release Date:
02/11/2016
... and two weeks of grueling negotiations, the international community left the Paris Conference of Parties (COP) of the ...
Woodruff Foundation Reflects on Its First Decade
Release Date:
02/11/2016
Friday, January 29, was Bob Woodruff's 10th Alive Day. As a reflection on the day that a roadside bomb nearly took Bob's life in Iraq, the Woodruff Foundation celebrated the impact that moment has had over the last decade.
IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
03/11/2016
Indiana University has joined a national consortium, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, to improve the teaching skills of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the diversity of future university...
Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council
Release Date:
03/21/2016
The United Way of New York City’s Women’s Leadership Council’s held it’s 10th annual Power of Women to Make a Difference Award Luncheon honoring several female leaders who have had positive impacts on their communities and made a difference in the...
Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post
Release Date:
03/22/2016
Baz Dreisinger’s intriguing new book, “Incarceration Nations,” describes countries where prisons are small, typically housing fewer than 50 people and some fewer than 10, and prisoners are close to their families and communities. This begs the...
Despite Legacy Connections, Rockefeller Family Fund Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments
Release Date:
04/04/2016
... money machine, Standard Oil. “While the global community works to eliminate the use of fossil fuels, it ...
Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.
Release Date:
04/25/2016
... of the agreement on Friday, April 22 by the international community signifies a noteworthy step in its efforts to mount ...
NY Women’s Foundation President and City Council Speaker Announce $20M More for Young Women’s Initiative
Release Date:
05/16/2016
... together stakeholders from across the City – including community -based organizations, advocates, policy experts and ...
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Philanthropy, Refugees, and the Global Humanitarian Crisis: World Refugee Day - Webinar
Monday, June 20, 2016 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
... innovative ways to create a cohesive sense of family and community across the country. Our two prior webinars in the ...
Judith Rodin Steps Down as Head of Rockefeller Foundation
Release Date:
06/16/2016
Institution’s first female president ends 11-year tenure in which she stressed forging corporate partnerships to further philanthropic projects.
Ford Foundation's Chris Cardona on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion
Release Date:
07/29/2016
Cardona writes in SSIR that it’s time to recognize how inequity shapes funders’ choice of partners.
Marist College, Rockefeller Archive Center Partner on Open-Source Technologies for Digital Archival Processes
Release Date:
08/24/2016
Marist College and the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) have partnered to develop and implement a sustainable and robust platform capable of supporting the complex archival management of digitized and born-digital records.
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize
Release Date:
09/07/2016
... https://www.facebook.com/psscra.org/ . Please join our community there. Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research ...