Ford Foundation Hires Michelle Obama’s Aide
Release Date:
04/17/2015
... Aide Kristen Jarvis, a longtime special assistant to First Lady Michelle Obama, takes on a newly created position ...
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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Donate $100 Million to Cornell Tech Campus
Release Date:
06/16/2015
... on the $2 billion campus and come with a nice perk–the first academic building will be named The Bloomberg Center, ...
New York City Takes Steps to Increase the Safety of Employees at Homeless Shelters
Release Date:
07/07/2015
... castle that looms over Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn is the first stopover for many of New York City’s homeless men. ...
Ford's Walker Explores the Value of Civil Society in Recent Report
Release Date:
07/09/2015
... Value of Civil Society in Recent Report During my very first days as President of the Ford Foundation, I ...
Rockefeller's Rodin Should Run for President, According to NewsWorks
Release Date:
08/24/2015
... Here's one: Two candidates who emerged from the first CNN debates with a bounce in their steps routinely tout .....
Daphne Foundation President Receives Top Honors from the International Women's Media Foundation
Release Date:
09/30/2015
... socially conscious documentaries and recently directed her first : "The Armor of Light," about a minister preaching .....
With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database
Release Date:
02/22/2016
... research and scholarship about American art. One of the first in the nation to make its entire collection available ...
Guttman Community College to Move to UWS
Release Date:
04/05/2016
... building on the Upper West Side. The institution, CUNY’s first new community college in more than four decades, will ...
Citi Foundation and Americas Promise Alliance Announce the Launch of the 2016 Youth Opportunity Fund
Release Date:
04/06/2016
... the Launch of the 2016 Youth Opportunity Fund The Fund, first launched in 2015, will award one-year grants up to ...
Sloan Foundation Funds New App and TV Series Focusing on Science
Release Date:
07/27/2016
... and neuroscientist Dr. Heather Berlin are co-hosts for the first 26 episodes. Guests include cutting-edge scientists and ...
Doris Duke Grant Makes Community-Centered Production of 'Dreamgirls' Possible
Release Date:
08/02/2016
... production. To that end, members of SITI Company spent the first quarter of 2015 leading a workshop series on Saturday ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Picks 20 Nonprofits for 2016 Spark Prize
Release Date:
10/12/2016
... Community Foundation’s inaugural Spark Prize, the first and only honor of its kind celebrating changemakers in ...
Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2016 Jane Jacobs Medal
Release Date:
10/04/2016
... around the world, the award was open this year for the first time to international nominees... Rockefeller ...
Pershing Square Supports Social Entrepreneurship and Mobile Healthcare
Release Date:
10/19/2016
... of a for-profit organization. Singal points out that at first their nontraditional approach had traditional ...
Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Writes About the Privilege of Being Privileged
Release Date:
10/20/2016
... building a system that produces less of the stuff in the first place. Problem solved... Ford Foundation's Darren .....
Jonas Center Announces Partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs
Release Date:
11/15/2016
... the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a first -of-its-kind partnership to establish a national network ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Gene-Editing Technology That Partially Restores Vision in Blind Animals
Release Date:
11/17/2016
... a holy grail of gene editing-the ability to, for the first time, insert DNA at a target location into the ...
Video: At Rockefeller, Actor Robin Wright on Negotiating Equal Pay on ‘House of Cards’
Release Date:
05/25/2016
... put a stop to violence against women and children. On our first dialogue, Robin joined us for a discussion on human ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Invests in Venture to Install 1.3 Gigawatts of Renewable Electricity across Africa by 2018
Release Date:
01/20/2017
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund invested in the Lekela Power platform -- a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. and Actis LLP that plans to install more than 1.3 gigawatts of renewable electricity across Africa by 2018.
Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness
Release Date:
02/27/2017
... of Ophthalmology at the Kresge Eye Institute are the first to show that the Zika virus (ZIKV) can replicate in the ...