Ellen Liu, Director of Women's Health, Ms. Foundation for Women, Selected as American Express NGen Fellow
Release Date:
10/27/2015
Independent Sector announced the selection of the 2015 cohort of American Express NGen Fellows.
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Hudson Farmlink Organizers See Room for Growth - Doris Duke Foundation
Release Date:
11/23/2015
Organizers of an online platform that connects property owners with current and aspiring farmers in search of land, funded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and others, are already making plans to expand the year-old program.
Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals
Release Date:
12/15/2015
New research from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University shows an area of the brain - long associated with negative behaviors - can also influence kindness and what might be called charitable giving in humans.
Warhol Foundation Brings "I Like the Sound of That" Exhibition to Artspace
Release Date:
04/22/2016
I Like the Sound of That is a group exhibition that combines works of visual art with recordings of specific sounds that artists listened to during the work’s creation.
JPB Foundation Promotes Betsy Krebs to Vice President, Poverty Program
Release Date:
04/22/2016
As of April 18, 2016, Betsy Krebs has been promoted to Vice President, Poverty at the JPB Foundation.
UHF Medicaid Conference to Focus on Value-Based Payment
Release Date:
05/06/2016
United Hospital Fund is pleased to announce new program details about its upcoming Medicaid conference, which will focus on efforts to move to value-based payment in New York.
Report Highlights 20 Urban Resilience Strategies In The Rockefeller Foundation-Supported Resilient Cities Network
Release Date:
01/25/2017
While cities committed to building resilience are actively working to boost their capacity to survive, adapt to, and grow despite chronic stresses and acute shocks, service providers and private-sector investors are needed to bridge the gap in...
Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... a $240 million commitment from the company to support collaborative artificial intelligence research over the next ...
Macquarie Group and Its Employees Donate $100,000 To Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts
Release Date:
09/19/2017
Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, announced a $100,000 donation to the American Red Cross to aid in immediate relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey.
Even as political battles persist, more district and charter schools join partnership program
Release Date:
09/29/2017
Recently, Dawn Brooks DeCosta, the principal of a traditional elementary school in Harlem, was looking for a way to boost her students’ social and emotional skills. Her search led her to an unlikely event: a charter school assembly.
JPMorgan Chase Releases New Data Platform, The Good Jobs Index
Release Date:
11/14/2017
The Good Jobs Index is a new data platform that provides a window into the shifting realities of employment opportunity in the US, including the finding that two-thirds of states have added good jobs for workers without a bachelor’s degree.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky
Release Date:
11/20/2017
The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2018 Award in Pain Scholars
Release Date:
03/07/2018
The Rita Allen Foundation has named Helen Lai of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Candice Paulsen of Yale University as 2018 Award in Pain Scholars, recognizing emerging leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards Critical Path Institute a Grant to Focus on Crohn's disease
Release Date:
04/16/2018
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded Critical Path Institute (C-Path) a grant to support a Crohn's disease biomarker pre-consortium. The pre-consortium will identify unmet needs for the use of biomarkers in developing new...
Arcus Foundation Funds a New Partnership to Reduce Poverty and to Protect the Endangered Bonobo Population In the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Release Date:
05/21/2018
Village Enterprise and the African Wildlife Foundation announced a new partnership funded by the Arcus Foundation to reduce poverty and to protect the endangered Bonobo population in the biodiverse Lomako region of the Democratic Republic of the...
Dodge Foundation Awards $3.8 Million to New Jersey Nonprofits
Release Date:
08/13/2018
The foundation awarded forty-five grants totaling nearly $1.6 million through its Arts focus area, including a grant of $230,000 to Creative New Jersey , which works to foster creativity, cross-sector collaboration, and inclusion as a way to build...
Andy Warhol Foundation Board Names Julián Zugazagoitia Chair, Adds Three Members
Release Date:
10/23/2018
... has grown 43%. Known for his high-energy leadership and collaborative spirit, Zugazagoitia previously served as ...
Support From JPMorgan Chase and Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Aids Launch of Hudson County Workforce Leadership Academy
Release Date:
04/19/2019
Hudson County Community College (HCCC) announced today that it will be sponsoring a Workforce Leadership Academy, a program designed to develop a local network of workforce development leaders to collaborate on solutions to common challenges.
Research Funded by Simons Foundation Finds New Causes of Autism Found in 'Junk' DNA
Release Date:
05/27/2019
The neurodevelopmental condition can result from mutations in the noncoding regions of the human genome, new research demonstrates for the first time.
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Election Series: Navigating Effective Nonpartisan Election-Year Grantmaking - A First Monday Discussion Webinar Hosted by FCCP
Monday, September 9, 2019 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Properly understood, IRS rules allow foundations —both private and public— to legally support almost every type of advocacy. Foundations have a great deal of flexibility in election-year grantmaking but it is important to know what is legal,...