Site Search

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Workforce Development

MetLife Foundation Will Appear on 'Be the Change,' A Lifetime TV Network Program

Release Date:

09/18/2015

... Act® will feature a “Be the Change” segment on how corporate America is empowering people to build better ... “Providing quality, affordable financial tools and know- how for those in need” is the objective...

Find More By

News type

Corporate Social Responsibility

Funding Area

Communications/Media

Community Development

Related Organizations

MetLife

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

Release Date:

03/23/2016

... for leaders to stop focusing on what Drucker labeled “ how to do” techniques, and instead think about three ... revisit their specific assumptions and beliefs about how they function at an institutional level...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping

Release Date:

03/29/2016

... A new study from Sandia National Laboratories assesses how much the city, its region and the nation would suffer in ... conversation in Norfolk regarding flooding and demonstrate how the long-term benefits of...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Rockefeller Foundation

Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations

Release Date:

09/09/2016

... challenges the most influential textbook explanation of how the mammalian brain detects when the body is becoming too warm, and how it then orchestrates the myriad responses that animals, ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

The New York Stem Cell Foundation

Science

Related Organizations

Rita Allen Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Klingenstein Philanthropies

Ford Foundation Supports 'Stay Midtown Program' to Respond to Recent Rental Cost Increases in Detroit

Release Date:

03/22/2017

... The Stay Midtown program is one tangible example of how these recommendations can be implemented. Launched in ... quality of life will also be monitored along with how it affects neighborhood and community...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

Unbound Philanthropy is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It?

Release Date:

07/17/2017

... is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It? How can philanthropy support immigrants in a country that ... long. But its laser focus on the immigration issue, and how communities can welcome the...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Immigration

Related Organizations

Unbound Philanthropy

Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?

Release Date:

09/08/2017

... Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector? How policy labs can foster greater collaboration and policy ... to collaborate in government is usually lacking. So how did these leaders—some with competing...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Public Policy

Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation . I wanted to learn how this foundation came to support a form of reflective practice as capacity buildin g, and that’s how I began my conversation with the foundation’s...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

The B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation

Related Organizations

Advancing The Mental Health And Well-Being Movement Through Grant Making: Engaged Philanthropy

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... the direction they want to go with their investment, and how to accomplish their goals, how will the grant-making community ever know if it is making ...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico

Release Date:

11/16/2017

... 55 people across the U.S. territory. "We have to reimagine how we're going to rebuild," said Miguel Soto-Class, founder ... who will submit a report by early next year on where and how federal...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Disaster Relief

Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”

Release Date:

12/20/2017

... underlies the foundation’s initiatives and describes how a focus on continuous improvement fits into this. ... to find workable solutions to complex problems, such as how to effectively train and support...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Wallace Foundation

The Aetna Foundation Launches Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge to Empower Local Group Efforts

Release Date:

04/06/2018

... genetic code. Where you live impacts what foods you eat, how you exercise, how healthy your environment is, and what care you have ready ...

Find More By

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Aetna Foundation

Rita Allen Foundation Announces Its 2018 Class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

Release Date:

07/10/2018

... innovative research on a range of topics—including how the interpretation of chemical signals is disrupted in neurological disorders, how cells communicate with one another, the biology of ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Science

Related Organizations

Rita Allen Foundation

NYSHealth's Patients as Partners Provides $230,708 Patient Empowerment Grant

Release Date:

12/14/2018

... Grant To ensure that New Yorkers have a stronger role in how health care is delivered and how health policy is made, NYSHealth issued a request for ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Philanthropy's Social Compact In A Changing World

Release Date:

10/09/2019

... and commentators. The question for philanthropies now is how to react and remedy these perceptions. To date, few ... and public trust. It also reflects shifting notions of how philanthropies view their role in...

Find More By

News type

Insights

Funding Area