OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'
Release Date:
08/13/2015
... that are being achieved in countries that have opted to take part in the Global Partnership for Social Accountability ...
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region
Release Date:
09/25/2015
... grab keys, turn on the cell phone, remind the kids to take their backpacks, kiss your spouse. No one cued you about ...
Rebuild By Design Joins Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities Initiative
Release Date:
10/01/2015
... One of the keys to building urban resilience is to take the most effective tools – tools that have worked in ...
Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs
Release Date:
10/14/2015
... providers must be aware that when they ask older adults to take a new medication or suggest they see another doctor that ...
NoVo Foundation Picked by Cuomo to Create New York City Women's Center
Release Date:
10/27/2015
... of the worldwide women’s-equality movement. "We take down an institution of failure and defeat and we rise .....
Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results
Release Date:
03/28/2016
... city's youngest children, he said he hoped the pilot could take root in Rhode Island and spread across the nation. .....
Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health
Release Date:
08/23/2016
“The goal here is really to address this giant gap, whereby we know 65 percent of deaths in the world — that’s about 35 million — go unrecorded,” said Dr. Kelly Henning, who has led the Bloomberg Philanthropies public health program since it started...
JPMorgan Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities
Release Date:
10/21/2016
JPMorgan Chase starts collaborative partnerships in Detroit, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, and New York to develop solutions for distressed neighborhoods.
COO Sharon Ullman Named Acting Executive Director of Rauschenberg Foundation
Release Date:
01/10/2017
Sharon Ullman has been named Acting Executive Director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation following the announcement last week that Christy MacLear, who has led the Foundation staff since 2010, will be taking a position at Sotheby's.
Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health
Release Date:
03/17/2017
... of income, education or ethnic background—to take an active role in living healthy lives," says Aetna. The .....
Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts
Release Date:
05/08/2017
... on Basher’s mind; right after his interview, he has to take a call from Furrukh, a Muslim member of the ...
Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities
Release Date:
07/11/2017
The billionaire on Monday donated about $3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the NoVo Foundation as well as four other family charities, Reuters reports. This marks his 12th annual donation to the group of charities.
Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed
Release Date:
08/08/2017
... on Public Higher Ed As colleges and universities flock to take their academic programs online, many of them work with ...
Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change
Release Date:
08/21/2017
The patriarch of the Simons clan is best known for his math chops and science philanthropy. But heirs Nat and Liz Simons are taking the family’s hedge fund fortune a different direction with some serious climate giving.
Collective Impact Without Borders
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Successful, multi-national, collective impact efforts require that organizations carefully consider two dimensions of their approach.
Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’s Far West Side
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... New York City. The retail giant signed a 15-year lease to take about 360,000 square feet at Five Manhattan West, a ...
ASPCA Launches New Social Media Campaign
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... heart.” A Find Your Fido and Friends adoption event will take place at Central Park on Oct. 7 to showcase available ...
Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving
Release Date:
10/10/2017
While a simplified tax code would be a welcome change for many Americans, I join many of our nonprofit colleagues in believing that the proposed reforms would have unintended consequences for giving.
Universal Deduction Bill Draws Measured Praise
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... who itemize as well as those who do not and merely take the standard deduction, currently $12,700 for married ...
Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... retailers didn’t recover. Wanting to help residents take things into their own hands, Rockaway Youth Task Force ...