Ford Foundation Joins Funders To Launch The Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund
Release Date:
08/13/2018
... diversity within the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. Nonprofits rarely resemble the communities they serve. ...
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Warren Buffett Honors His Hero, The Billionaire Who Secretly Gave It All Away
Release Date:
06/18/2014
... it will have given away $7.5 billion to promote education, human rights, science and healthcare around the world. No one ...
Scholars Selected for African Diaspora Program
Release Date:
06/25/2014
A group of 33 African Diaspora scholars have been selected to collaborate with higher education institutions in Africa on curriculum co-development, research, graduate teaching, training and mentoring activities, as part of a fellowship funded by...
Penny Abeywardena Joins the de Blasio Administration as the Head of the Office of International Affairs
Release Date:
09/16/2014
... previously worked for the Drum Major Institute and Human Rights Watch. Penny Abeywardena Joins the de Blasio ...
Arcus Awards Grant to Alliance of Baptists to Support Inclusion and Racial Justice
Release Date:
10/09/2014
... world, will fund the new “Congregational Compassion and Human Difference” initiative. Alliance member Cody Sanders ...
Anisa Kamadoli Costa of Tiffany & Co. Praised in GreenBiz for Sustainability Initiatives
Release Date:
07/29/2015
... including notorious dark spots for the industry, such as human rights abuses and environmentally reckless mining ...
Carnegie-Backed Study Explores Adolescent Girls' Knowledge of HPV and Sexuality in Western Uganda
Release Date:
09/02/2015
... This is projected to increase to 90% by 2020 [1]. The human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes most of the cervical ...
Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing
Release Date:
11/17/2015
There is a growing realization that, along with government aid and charitable philanthropy, financial institutions can help solve some of the world’s social problems.
Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art
Release Date:
02/16/2016
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia announced a grant of $815,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will be utilized to create a research center for the study of the indigenous art of Australia and the Americas at The...
Carnegie President Says Humanitarians Can Have Impact on Refugee Crisis
Release Date:
04/26/2016
A six-country survey commissioned by the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity finds widespread misperceptions of the scale of the global refugee crisis.
Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline
Release Date:
09/09/2016
... Chief Strategy Advisor for Equality Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The Atlantic Philanthropies, ...
Ms. Foundation for Women Will Join SheKnows Media for the Sept. 26 Panel on Next-Generation #Femvertising
Release Date:
09/21/2016
The survey, fielded online in September 2016, examines attitudes toward the pro-female advertising movement in which brands are increasingly building gender-equality messages and images into ads that target women.
Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding
Release Date:
03/17/2017
Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.
Schott Honors Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Kavitha Mediratta and Landmark Education Campaign at 25th Anniversary Awards Gala
Release Date:
05/12/2017
... former Chief Strategy Advisor for Equity Initiatives and Human Capital Development Kavitha Mediratta, who received the ...
Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures
Release Date:
07/27/2017
... about the way food participates in and actively shapes human knowledge, ethics, and imagination. They will explore ...
Collective Impact Without Borders
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... mobility in Israel, fisheries sustainability in Mexico, human trafficking in Brazil, and alternative care in ...
Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The author and journalist’s new book explains how antibiotics overuse helped chicken ascend from a local delicacy to an everyday protein, with serious health consequences as a result.
The World's Soaring CO2 Levels Visualized as Skyscrapers
Release Date:
09/22/2017
This unusual animation gives an architectural twist to the history and possible dark future of climate change.
More Trafficking Victims Turn to Hotline With Pleas for Help
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... call was received in late January by the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which relayed the tip to an ...
Teagle Foundation Names Andrew Delbanco Next President
Release Date:
03/22/2018
The Teagle Foundation announced that its next president will be Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.