Brooklyn Community Foundation to Award $600,000 to Outstanding Local Organizations
Release Date:
03/31/2017
... have made a lasting impact in its communities. Brooklyn is home to over 2,000 nonprofits, yet they collectively receive ...
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Arcus Foundation's Support of Mighty Earth Has Major Impact on a Destructive Cacao Industry
Release Date:
03/29/2018
... makers have turned to ethically sourcing cacao closer to home . They’re forging relationships with farmers and farmer ...
Robert Sterling Clark: Supporting Our Grantee Partners in the Era of COVID-19
Release Date:
03/19/2020
... Our grantee partners are in crisis. My son was sent home from his freshman year of college. In my confusion these ...
FORE Releases Request for Proposals Focused on Engaging and Empowering Vulnerable Families and Communities to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder
Release Date:
07/20/2021
It’s estimated that one of eight children ages 17 or younger (8.7 million) resided in households with at least one parent who had a substance use disorder in the past year.
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2023
Quarterly Meeting of the New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 -
9:30am to 11:00am
This in-person quarterly convening of the New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative will focus on the pivotal role major corporations are playing in New York City’s workforce development ecosystem. The session will feature leaders from...
Philanthropy Must Lead With Its Heart
Release Date:
02/19/2015
NoVo Co-Presidents, Jennifer and Peter Buffett, discuss the importance of love in the philanthropic sector.
Capital One-Funded Report: Women Entrepreneurs On the Rise in NYC
Release Date:
03/04/2016
The Center for an Urban Future found a dramatic surge in women entrepreneurs in New York City, showing that the number of women-owned businesses grew four times as fast as male-owned businesses during the past five years.
Free To Fail? Foundations Face Few External Performance Pressures
Release Date:
01/11/2017
Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Arcus Foundation, writes, "Unlike our colleagues in government, business, and civil society, foundation executives face relatively little outside pressure to achieve impact. We are free to fail, with no...
The Next Five Years: Three Reasons We Must Adapt
Release Date:
05/01/2018
... that have had charity status for decades are now finding ways to generate earned income, while new social ...
23
Sep
2020
Social Impact Exchange: 2020 Scaling Impact Together: Unifying Leadership
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 (All day) to Thursday, September 24, 2020 (All day)
This year has laid bare the truth and consequences of leadership in all forms, interpreted in many different ways. What do we mean when we talk about leadership? And what sort of leadership do we need right now? In this year of existential issues—a...
Powerful Networks: Working Across Borders to Reconnect Separated Families
Release Date:
01/20/2021
Powerful Networks: Working Across Borders to Reconnect Separated Families By: Caroline Kronley, President, Tinker Foundation. You probably remember the recording from 2018: leaked audio of a 6-year-old girl from El Salvador crying...
TED: Exceptional Media and Ideas for Change
Release Date:
05/28/2013
... in our meeting remotely. Even without a lot of technical resources , we are all able to extend our reach in this way. ... TED can ask the same questions and bring their respective resources and expertise to the...
A New Way to Sustain the Campaign: Foundation Center and Open Society Foundations Launch BMAFunders.org
Release Date:
03/28/2013
By Shawn Dove Campaign Manager, Campaign for Black Male Achievement Open Society Foundations This June will mark the five-year anniversary of the creation of the Open Society Foundations Campaign...
Arcus, NoVo Foundation Announce Groundbreaking Philanthropy Initiative to Improve the Lives of Transgender People
Release Date:
12/08/2015
... Trans Initiative will deploy grants and philanthropic resources totaling at least $20 million dollars to ... we are committed to delivering increased and necessary resources to those in the field working...
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Elects New Board Chair and Five Members to Its Board of Directors
Release Date:
01/15/2016
... Marnie S. Pillsbury, Senior Policy Advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council Theo Spencer, and former Executive ...
Education Leaders Release National Plan to Prepare Community College Students for Clean Economy Workforce (Bank of America Charitable Foundation)
Release Date:
01/20/2016
... is available at http://www.nwf.org/Greenforce-Initiative/ Resources /Greenprint-Report.aspx . Education Leaders Release ...
Heron Calls for A New Model Of Philanthropy
Release Date:
01/27/2016
... peers to jettison outdated operating models that leave resources untapped in the face of systemic social ills. In a ... practice of philanthropy, one that makes use of all of its resources to actively engage...
Ikea Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation Join Forces to Set up a Historic $1 Billion Initiative to Catalyze Investments in Distributed Renewable Energy
Release Date:
06/21/2021
... investment. Our partnership will unlock the financing and resources that are essential to provide clean, reliable ... way for impact investors, and governments to combine their resources and expand their...
Mellon Foundation Appoints Sheree Carter-Galvan as Chief Legal Officer
Release Date:
01/11/2023
... Museum’s General Counsel’s office, oversaw its Human Resources and Revenue Security departments, and served on the ... broad effort among universities to bring their scholarly resources online and expand...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants $2.5 Million to Help Sheridan Memorial Hospital Bring Innovative Behavioral Health Model to Wyoming
Release Date:
08/27/2023
... into which we can pull together a network of support and resources .” The EmPATH Unit will provide patients with a ...