NY Community Trust's Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering Stereotypes and College Prep
Release Date:
10/06/2016
... about Islam. NYCT Program Director Shawn Morehead joins us to talk about this more recent initiative along with the ...
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Surdna Foundation to Recognize Four Community Development Financial Institutions
Release Date:
10/31/2016
Opportunity Finance Network, Goldman Sachs, and the Surdna Foundation will award four CDFIs, including Accion and CSBDF, with the 2016 Small Business Leader Award for Mission-Driven Lenders.
Gap Inc. Connects Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent
Release Date:
11/04/2016
Gap Inc. understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores.
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation President Says Modern Water Infrastructure Is Critical For NJ's Economic Growth
Release Date:
11/07/2016
No one solution will be sufficient for a problem so large and complex, and fortunately, a new coalition of organizations and individuals with a vested interest in upgraded water infrastructure is working on a broad range of approaches.
Stonewall Elects Neill Coleman as President
Release Date:
11/07/2016
... Neill was Chief External Affairs Officer at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development during the ...
For Noyes Foundation, Fixing Food Means Racial and Economic Justice
Release Date:
11/09/2016
... there's opportunity. “It also opens a way for us to build structural equity, because there are people of .....
Century Foundation Releases Report on Finding Common Ground on International Tax Reform
Release Date:
11/17/2016
Democrats and Republicans alike agree: the United States' international tax system is broken.
Ford, Rockefeller, Atlantic, Pershing Square, Bloomberg and Open Society Named in Forbes' Big Bet Philanthropy
Release Date:
11/30/2016
Who’s going big to change the world? Here are the ten most promising big bets.
Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating Waste to Feed The Hungry
Release Date:
12/05/2016
Rockefeller Foundation has invested hundreds of millions of dollars and enlisted partners around the globe—from large corporations to smallholder farmers, from celebrity chefs to supermarkets—to halve food waste globally, through an initiative...
Ms. Foundation President Writes in 'The Hill' About Protecting Water in Flint, Standing Rock
Release Date:
12/08/2016
... Standing Rock Political obstruction is literally poisoning us . This week, Congress is poised to leave Washington, D.C. ...
Arabella Advisors Report Finds Divestments from Fossil Fuels Top $5.2 Trillion
Release Date:
12/13/2016
Investing heavyweights are moving their assets and funds out of fossil fuels at a record pace.
Mellon Foundation Supports Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not-for-Profit
Release Date:
12/21/2016
... work in increasingly interdisciplinary ways, and they let us know very quickly that they were interested in ...
Free To Fail? Foundations Face Few External Performance Pressures
Release Date:
01/11/2017
... in the world, only about one out of every eight of us feel we actually are making such a difference. ... We are free to fail, with no external force to punish us if we do. This has its downside. Since we face...
JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative
Release Date:
01/11/2017
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced $20 million in grants to 10 U.S. states to dramatically increase the number of students who graduate from high school prepared for careers.
Herbert Sturz of Open Society Foundations Named A City & State Lifetime Award Winner
Release Date:
01/12/2017
... on January 30th at The Ainsworth Midtown Restaurant. Join us for a celebratory evening reception with New York’s most ...
Open Society Foundations Supports Climate Change Glossary
Release Date:
03/01/2017
... to help the media better report on (and for all of us to better understand) global warming, IRIN has produced ...
Mellon Foundation Supports First App Launched by Museum of the City of New York
Release Date:
03/06/2017
The Museum of the City of New York launches its first-ever app, A Walk Through Gilded New York , a digital companion to the critically acclaimed exhibition Gilded New York.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research on Planetary Evolution
Release Date:
03/16/2017
An enormous young planet approximately 300 light-years from Earth has given astrophysicists a rare glimpse into planetary evolution.
Soros-Funded Charities Targeted By Trump-Inspired Crackdown In East Europe
Release Date:
03/23/2017
The campaign against Soros in countries formerly dominated by Moscow appears to follow a template set by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose own crackdown on foreign-funded charities drove Soros's foundation out of Russia two years ago.
Russell Sage Foundation Celebrates 110th Anniversary
Release Date:
04/20/2017
April 19, 2017, marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Russell Sage Foundation by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828–1918), the widow of railroad magnate and financier Russell Sage.