Inside the Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date:
04/15/2015
One of the foundation's main focuses is fighting economic inequality.
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JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities
Release Date:
06/02/2015
“These grants allow cities, systems, and non-profit partners to test interventions and help us develop best practices for encouraging more people to use bike share."
Rockefeller Announces Joint Initiative with Obama Administration to Create New Resilience AmeriCorps Program
Release Date:
07/13/2015
The two-year pilot will launch later in 2015 and has garnered $1 million in support.
Philanthropists, Lawmakers Behind New Push for College Education in Prison
Release Date:
07/29/2015
Move comes as criminal-justice policies place more emphasis on preparing inmates for life beyond bars.
Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World
Release Date:
08/13/2015
The foundation has donated $500,000 to the GivePower Foundation which provides solar powered lighting to schools.
Google Partners with Rockefeller Foundation to Streamline Nairobi Public Transport
Release Date:
08/27/2015
The service will map out all gazetted bus stops in Nairobi, amid efforts to streamline public transport in the city.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to Receive National Medal of Arts
Release Date:
09/08/2015
President Obama will present the award in conjunction with the National Humanities Medals.
The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times
Release Date:
10/13/2015
For-profit colleges that have been accused of fraud are still receiving U.S. funds.
Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace
Release Date:
10/13/2015
... Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, ...
New York Stem Cell Foundation Expands Offices in New York
Release Date:
12/01/2015
Nonprofit's midtown lease indicates growing strength of biotech industry.
JPMorgan Renews Veterans Partnership with $13.8M Commitment
Release Date:
03/01/2016
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families will receive $13.8 million from JPMorgan Chase to continue its mission of advancing the post-service lives of transitioning service members, veterans and their families.
Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College
Release Date:
03/22/2016
A national research center focused on interactions between the police and the communities they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college’s first endowed professor as its director.
Ford Foundation Head on ‘Time’ List of 100 Influence Leaders
Release Date:
04/25/2016
Darren Walker’s moves to steer the country’s second-largest grant maker toward a focus on inequality and inclusion won him a spot on Time magazine's 2016 list of the world’s most influential people.
Sloan Foundation Supports Science on Screen Film Series
Release Date:
04/28/2016
Funded by the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, BFS is one of only 23 independent non-profit cinemas from across the country awarded SoS grants to expand film and scientific literacy by creatively pairing...
Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds
Release Date:
04/28/2016
... hundred emerging social justice leaders from twenty-two countries between 2001 and 2013, with the goal of giving ...
Ford Foundation"s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy
Release Date:
05/12/2016
Ford Foundation"s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy Impact investing can lead to new strategies for entrepreneurs and mission-driven businesses. That means room for new...
Twenty Cities Advance in Bloomberg Philanthropies' Latin American and Caribbean Mayors Challenge
Release Date:
06/20/2016
... potential to spread. The finalists, hailing from 10 countries , will move forward to compete for a $5 million ...
Staff at Open Society Foundations Just Voted to Join a Union. Is That a Good Thing?
Release Date:
07/22/2016
... like an archipelago than an island, with offices in 37 countries and famously fragmented lines of authority... Staff ...
Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population
Release Date:
08/04/2016
Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population The American Civil Liberties Union is retooling an ambitious, donor-funded effort to reduce incarceration across the country,...
Ford and #ReasonsforHope Foundations Want You To Know They Make A Difference—Not Just Write Checks
Release Date:
08/10/2016
The #ReasonsForHope campaign is trying to make people understand the powerful work of philanthropic foundations.