The Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’s $100 Million Jackpot
Release Date:
06/03/2016
... for selecting the winner will involve committees of five (unseen to you) experts who will screen the projects ...
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Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building
Release Date:
07/05/2016
... Are Missing About Capacity Building Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand ...
Atlantic Philanthropies Joins Black Foundation Executives In Sharing Grief Over Police Shootings
Release Date:
07/08/2016
... In Sharing Grief Over Police Shootings Just hours before five police officers were gunned down in the streets of ...
Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... year, Buffett is giving 19.6 million Class B shares to five charities. The bulk of the money, $2.2 billion, will go ...
Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... blacks are treated fairly by the police, and four out of five whites have said that black children have the same ...
Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project
Release Date:
01/12/2017
... the addition of structured data to the more than thirty- five million freely licensed media files in Wikimedia ...
Ford Foundation Supports 'Stay Midtown Program' to Respond to Recent Rental Cost Increases in Detroit
Release Date:
03/22/2017
... are scheduled to come online in Midtown over the next five years. The ultimate goal is to preserve the ...
Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75
Release Date:
04/04/2017
... The brothers, on the other hand, were a committee of five , equal to each other, but with distinct personalities. ...
F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money
Release Date:
06/30/2017
... U.S. law requires most foundations to pay out at least five percent of their net assets to charitable causes every ...
Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education
Release Date:
08/23/2017
... throughout the United States to profile five innovative programs designed to make college more ...
Bad Landlords Poised To Profit On De Blasio Plan To Turn Rent-Stabilized Buildings Into Long-Term Homeless Shelters
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... more than $98 million in contracts that would turn five apartment buildings currently part of the notoriously ...
A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... The Chicago-based charitable fund, whose name honors the five pillars of Islam, started seven years ago when a handful ...
Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... the current situation is just fine. More than four in five future retirees (82 percent) and 79 percent of recent ...
How America Gives Special Report: Breaking the Charity Habit
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... higher, faltering only occasionally. Four of the past five years, it has broken its own record, prompting confetti ...
Rockefeller Foundation Research Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... leading cause of death for children under the age of five . Published in Nature Communications, the study is the ...
Jim Simons, the Numbers King
Release Date:
12/13/2017
... of millions of dollars into autism research—seventy- five million dollars this year alone... Jim Simons, the ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty
Release Date:
05/07/2018
... black colleges and universities. The grant will fund a five -year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will ...
Greg Ratliff named VP at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Release Date:
04/04/2019
... where he created an impact investment portfolio defined at five percent of institutional assets. He doubled the annual ...
Eugene M. Tobin to Retire from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Release Date:
07/31/2019
... these distinctive American institutions. Over the past five years, Tobin developed the Foundation’s grantmaking ...
The Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches The Just Brooklyn Prize in Partnership with The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation's Social Justice Fund
Release Date:
04/10/2023
... with Brooklyn Community Foundation, is awarded to five BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) ...