Bloomberg’s What Works Cities Program Hits 100-City Goal
Release Date:
01/17/2018
... and agency performance challenges, was to expand the initiative to eventually include 100 municipal governments. ...
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gifts Landmark Grant to Stimulate Greece’s Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector
Release Date:
05/24/2018
... gifted a landmark grant of $27,477,000 to support a major initiative that aims to help revitalize one of Greece’s ... of SNF’s Recharging the Youth €100 million euros initiative that unfolded at the height of...
Building on #MeToo, Foundations Look to Change Workplaces in the U.S. and Around the World
Release Date:
03/19/2019
Feeling safe at work is not something many people, especially women, can take for granted—a fact strongly tied to men’s tendency to mistreat women in many cultures. Women’s safety at work in the U.S. and around the world is the initial focus of a...
Open Society Foundations Name Head of Culture and Art
Release Date:
10/01/2019
... program manager of Open Society’s Arts Exchange, an initiative created to support the integration of arts and ...
Jordan Joseph
... served as Associate Program Manager of the Education Initiative at Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC. While at Big ...
Sloan Foundation Partners With Cornell, Georgia Tech, Penn State to Boost STEM Mentoring Among Minorities
Release Date:
08/05/2013
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s partnership with Cornell University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University will fund University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring for minority graduate students in STEM (science,...
MetLife Foundation Launches $200 Million Campaign for Financial Inclusion
Release Date:
10/28/2013
PND reported on the MetLife Foundation's five-year, $200 million campaign to bring financial services to low-income communities in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the United States.
Liza Sutherland Joins Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Release Date:
01/15/2014
... six years as a Philanthropic Advisor at The Philanthropic Initiative of the Boston Foundation and for three years as a ...
New Gifts Offer Clues on Bloomberg’s Philanthropic Direction
Release Date:
02/27/2014
... letter and its recent grants - including a $10 million initiative to prevent child drowning deaths in Bangladesh - ...
Science Studies Get a Big Boost
Release Date:
03/10/2014
The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlighted several foundation efforts to support education in science, technology, engineering and math, including initiatives from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable...
Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens
Release Date:
03/13/2014
... Foundation is seeking feedback on their Change AGEnts Initiative . When I was first hired at the John A. Hartford ...
Opportunity International and The MasterCard Foundation Plan To Help 7M Out of Poverty With $22.7M Partnership
Release Date:
03/25/2014
... expansion in funding, The Africa Growth and Innovations Initiative …. Opportunity International and The MasterCard ...
The Century Foundation Welcomes Jeff Madrick as Senior Fellow
Release Date:
04/01/2014
... of the Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative , which will now be housed with TCF. The Rediscovering Government Initiative was launched in 2011 by Madrick to put forward ... of efforts to...
Brooklyn Community Foundation names Tynesha McHarris Director of Community Leadership
Release Date:
05/29/2014
... special projects, including our Healthy Communities initiative . Tynesha formerly worked alongside the ...
Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions
Release Date:
06/03/2014
... fund the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chicago Objects Study Initiative , a four-year, inter-institutional pilot program ...
Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies
Release Date:
06/23/2014
Four universities will share $2.4 million from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a three-year, collaboration to increase the number of indigenous Americans obtaining advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Carnegie "Opportunity by Design" Schools To Help Immigrant Students
Release Date:
07/17/2014
... Carnegie Corporation of New York's Opportunity by Design initiative , an effort to assist immigrant students who often .....
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to Anti-Poverty Effort
Release Date:
07/17/2014
... Foundation is giving $500,000 to the Shriver Corps, an initiative to train volunteers to help poor Americans connect ...
American Households Lost More Than One-Third Of Value Over Past Decade
Release Date:
07/26/2014
... conducted as part of the foundation's Great Recession Initiative , found that between 2003 and 2013, .....
Bloomberg Philanthropies Among Backers of Education Post News Site
Release Date:
09/01/2014
With the backing of several leading foundations, Education Post, a new nonprofit group, will encourage respectful and fact-based dialogue on public education.