Spending a Week on Food Stamps Taught Me a Lesson That Could Aid All Grant Makers
Release Date:
04/07/2013
... of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. The number of Americans who are too financially strapped to pay for food has grown to ...
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Talking Optimism and Opportunity With New Ford Foundation Head
Release Date:
08/08/2013
... 10th president, a position originally held by Edsel Ford, who founded the philanthropy in 1936... Talking Optimism and ...
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CEO Workshop: Transforming Your Role and Impact in the Foundation and Community
Saturday, January 26, 2013 -
7:30am to 5:00pm
... , is designed for the community of family foundation CEOs who are eager for new knowledge and skills to help them be ... leaders within their organization and in the community. Who value candid discussions and...
These Donors Will Take Anything but Manhattan
Release Date:
10/08/2013
This article on donors who support arts and culture organizations in boroughs other ...
Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy
Publication date:
06/2014
... quickly grasp, in terms of both major trends and detail, who is funding what and where, across the nation. Foundation ...
Alan "Ace" Greenberg, Leading NY Philanthropist, Dies
Release Date:
07/25/2014
... Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the former head of Bear Stearns, who raised hundreds of millions for the UJA-Federation of New ... over his decades of involvement with the organization, and who instilled the importance...
Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff
Release Date:
05/23/2016
... creation of George Soros, the hedge-fund billionaire, who is a prominent donor to liberal causes, including Hillary Clinton’s Presidential bid. Soros, who has spent nineteen million dollars on the 2016 .....
Carnegie Corporation of New York Honors 42 'Great Immigrants: The Pride of America'
Release Date:
06/29/2016
... of America' For 2016, the Corporation named 42 honorees, who represent some 30 different countries of origin, a wide .....
Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn
Release Date:
01/04/2017
... that Sunday afternoon in September, the spectrum of people who came together included a young Jewish man who had moved to the neighborhood just a month before and an African American woman who...
Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution
Release Date:
05/12/2017
... San Diego (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), who will explore how environmental and ecological processes ... morphology. Erin Bertrand of Dalhousie University, who will study the effect of temperature on...
Nonprofits Battle to Get Charitable Deduction Extended to All Taxpayers
Release Date:
10/12/2017
... the charitable deduction to all taxpayers, not just those who itemize, has a champion on Capitol Hill, but whether it ...
Eli Broad, Patron of Los Angeles, To Step Down From His Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/16/2017
Eli Broad, a billionaire who has been a dominant figure in this city’s cultural, ...
Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passes Legislature
Release Date:
09/12/2013
... reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Californians who hire a nanny, a cook, a maid or other domestic employees ... to mandate time-and-a-half pay for home-based employees who work more than 9 hours a day or 45...
Representing the Old And New in Brooklyn
Release Date:
03/10/2014
Brooklyn Community Foundation Chairman Alan Fishman, who has donated $1 million to the foundation, was also the ... He believes there are plenty of Brooklyn residents who love the community and want to contribute...
Lavelle Fund for the Blind Backs Program to Assist Blind and Visually Impaired College Students
Release Date:
08/17/2015
... designed specifically for students attending college who are blind and visually impaired. In partnership with ... program designed specifically for college students who are blind or visually impaired......
Arcus Supports First Group for LGBTQ People with Special Needs
Release Date:
08/24/2017
... is to support integration of people with special needs who identify as LGBTQ into the broader LGBTQ community, and ... prevent their isolation. Historically, these are people who are both under-integrated and...
Simons Foundation Genomic Database Tool Used in Breakthrough Autism Study
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... The scientists compared the genomes of 516 individuals who had simplex autism with the genomes of their parents and one sibling who was not affected by the disorder. By comparing these ...
Food Funders Working Group
... New Jersey, and Connecticut. We provide information, resources , and networking opportunities for funders to invest ... CFF also aggregates and disseminates information and resources to its members, provides a...
The Value of Rigorous Evaluation
Release Date:
06/02/2014
... program assessment or evaluation. Unless we invest more resources in our capacity to measure the performance and ... undertake rigorous evaluation. It can be costly, diverting resources from the direct...
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Launches Program to Support Community Development in Underserved U.S. Regions
Release Date:
10/23/2014
... (CDFG). The Program will deploy the Bank’s philanthropic resources for community development through high-performing ... investments in New York City. This concentration of CRA resources stands in contrast to...