New York Invests $69M in Upgrades for Local Water Systems
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... in local water and sewer projects. The state announced the funding on Tuesday. It will support projects in 12 towns, ...
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Open Society Foundations Support Smallholder Farmers Facing Climate Risk
Release Date:
05/13/2020
The Open Society Foundations are investing in an effort to help smallholder farmers survive severe weather events and natural catastrophes, as part of their broad drive to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
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Foundation Administrators Network: Making IT Decisions – Peer Case Studies
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 -
8:45am to 10:30am
The Century Foundation, One Whitehall Street, 15th Fl., NYC
... creates a supportive environment for sharing knowledge and resources , testing ideas with peers, and strengthening ... infrastructure. Although our organizational needs, resources , and systems vary, there’s...
We Cannot Let COVID-19 Be a Death Sentence For Refugees
Release Date:
08/12/2020
... emergency relief to our clients, and reached out to funders to support our Emergency Client Support Fund. This ... to be successful: flexibility and collaboration. Funders who wish to engage on this issue are...
Rediscovering the Enterprise Investment Approach
Release Date:
09/17/2014
... The danger for us in thinking about Heron’s financial resources as “assets” is that we stay stuck in the old ...
Invest in Youth: Strengthening Brooklyn’s Future
Release Date:
07/02/2015
... youth arrests and re-arrests, and increase access to resources and services that empower and support immigrant ... up organizations that may not typically access foundation funding —especially those led by...
UJA-Federation of New York Named an Official Charity Partner of the 2017 TCS New York City Marathon
Release Date:
03/13/2017
... address issues that matter most to them, pooling their resources to care for Jews everywhere and New Yorkers of all ...
New York City Contract Delays: The Facts
Release Date:
09/06/2018
... are rising and with them the cost of bridging government funding with borrowed money. Many nonprofits – including ... for New York City – face increased demands on their resources from the movement toward...
How Can Philanthropy Elevate Entrepreneurialism Through Crisis?
Release Date:
07/22/2020
In order for foundations to harness our collective capacity to respond to the life-threatening coronavirus pandemic and the humanitarian issues that have become more acute because of it, we must elevate entrepreneurship, multi-sectoral collaboration...
Surdna Foundation President Don Chen Named Co-Chair of Presidents' Council on Impact Investing
Release Date:
11/30/2020
... requires foundations to come together with all of our resources —our voice, vision, grantmaking, impact ...
Why Cultural Critics of Color Matter
Release Date:
05/15/2018
... example of what pop culture critics of color can do with resources and real estate. The coverage of Coco , another ... them, ideas don’t migrate or evolve. That’s why arts funders like myself are working to...
Bloomberg Philanthropies: Partnership for Healthy Cities Launches Online Platform to Support City Leaders Responding to COVID-19
Release Date:
04/15/2020
... Response Center includes the latest tools and technical resources geared toward urban challenges, ranging from ... to provide city leaders with important tools and technical resources to take on the crisis and...
The Rockefeller Foundation and USAID Launch $100 Million Partnership
Release Date:
08/04/2014
... By better aligning humanitarian and development planning, connecting the private sector with civil society and ...
Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities
Release Date:
12/10/2014
Ford and OSF among partners in Next Century Cities initiative.
Citi and Goldman Sachs Launching Projects with NYC to Boost Women Business Owners
Release Date:
03/12/2015
... expand the number of women entrepreneurs with the goal of connecting 5,000 of them to free training and business ...
UJA Federation Charities Scramble to Address FEGS Closure
Release Date:
03/16/2015
FEGS currently runs hundreds of city and state social-service programs.
With Support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics
Release Date:
10/21/2016
In a study of white Americans’ attitudes and candidate preferences, we found that Trump’s success reflects the rise of “white identity politics” – an attempt to protect the collective interests of white voters via the ballot box. Whereas racial...
NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member
Release Date:
10/31/2016
It seemed discordant to some critics when, this month, Ford's Darren Walker joined the board of PepsiCo, which makes the bulk of its money by selling sugary drinks and fatty snacks.
Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees
Release Date:
01/23/2017
A group of people walking through the fields caught Vasilis Tsartsanis’s eye as he passed the railroad that connects Greece to the rest of the Balkans. It was a warm September day in 2014, outside the small, usually quiet town of Idomeni. He stopped...
Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress Expands Globally With $100M Commitment to 500,000 Young People
Release Date:
02/23/2017
Pathways launched in 2014 with a $50 million effort that helped more than 100,000 young people across 10 U.S. cities become career-ready through first jobs, internships, and leadership and entrepreneurship training.