Pennsylvania College Consortium Created With $800,000 From Mellon Foundation
Release Date:
07/03/2014
... Foundation Ten liberal arts colleges in Pennsylvania will use an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ...
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Bloggers Falsely Accuse JPMorgan Chase of Employee "LGBT Loyalty Test"
Release Date:
07/07/2014
JPMorgan Chase appears to be the victim of right wing bloggers who have been making erroneous posts alleging the bank requires its employees to take an "LGBT loyalty" test.
NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals
Release Date:
07/24/2014
... director of Education Leadership, the principals will be evaluated using the city’s new online database, ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $45 Million for City Halls to Tackle Urban Issues
Release Date:
08/20/2014
... million investment to boost the capacity of city halls to use innovation to tackle major challenges and improve urban life. The foundation will direct significant funding and other assistance to help ... on...
Research to Prevent Blindness Funds New Smartphone Application to Detect Vision Problems in Young Patients
Release Date:
11/05/2014
The new app takes images of hard-to-see areas of the back of the eye.
Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change
Release Date:
10/19/2014
Mertz Gilmore VP Lukas Haynes addresses how climate marches are critical to advocacy, policy changes and perception shifts.
MasterCard Foundation Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
11/07/2014
... Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa The programme will accelerate the Alliance for a Green Revolution in ... women. “We welcome this new initiative because it will enable us to deal...
Verizon Foundation to Support STEM Programs in 80 Schools
Release Date:
12/05/2014
... to Support STEM Programs in 80 Schools Verizon will give 80 public schools $20,000 each to stimulate ... now for the Verizon Innovate Learning Grants that will go to underserved public schools, those with...
What's Next for Community Philanthropy
Publication date:
02/2015
To help funders adapt, the Monitor Institute’s free, do- it -yourself What’s Next for Community Philanthropy toolkit ... at your own peril, because your life and your organization will be forever changed.’ In a rapidly changing world, it truly equips community foundations to break out of their ...
Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen
Release Date:
04/15/2015
OSF has released a report outlining the civilian harm that occurred as a result of U.S. counterterrorism measures.
Rockefeller Foundation Pledges $75 Million for Smart Power India Project
Release Date:
04/16/2015
... pledged $75 million as part of its new initiative to use renewable energy based mini-grids not just to light up ...
Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research
Release Date:
05/26/2015
... on overcoming drug resistance in tumor cells. The grant will support a two-pronged approach to addressing cancer drug resistance: Broad Institute researchers will use genome-editing...
Pershing Square Foundation Backs Initiative to Provide Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants
Release Date:
05/28/2015
... was established by Giving Pledge signatory Bill Ackman, will provide twelve hundred "DREAMers" with $25,000 .....
JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities
Release Date:
06/02/2015
... is funded by the JPB Foundation to increase access to and use of bike share in underserved communities. This round ... grants is the first in $900,000 of funding PeopleForBikes will administer over three years...
Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban
Release Date:
07/14/2015
... to drill a natural-gas well using a waterless method that will test the state’s fracking ban. The Snyder Farm ...
Verizon Supports Immersion Program to Teach Girls to Code
Release Date:
09/01/2015
... Girls to Code Young girls were told that they could use code to change the world, to find their voices and to ...
NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens
Release Date:
10/09/2015
... a local nonprofit, is considering developing a mixed- use complex with 100 affordable housing units, including 50 ...
Sloan Foundation Announces 2016 Research Fellowships
Release Date:
02/25/2016
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the selection of 126 scientists and researchers as recipients of this year's Sloan Research Fellowships.
Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College
Release Date:
03/22/2016
... between the police and the communities they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal ... University of California, Los Angeles, a decade ago, and it recently began collaborating with police...
Carnegie and MacArthur Give $25 Million for Nuclear-Security Work
Release Date:
03/30/2016
... $25-million "gift basket" to welcome foreign officials who will begin streaming into Washington on Thursday for ... countries present "gift baskets" of actions they will take or money they...