Stonewall Community Foundation names Paul Hyman Executive Director
Release Date:
02/01/2012
... more—engaging more donors, empowering more leaders, and investing in more organizations across the five boroughs ...
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Jul
2012
Education Working Group Lunch: 2013 Reform Review Project
Thursday, July 12, 2012 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC
Over the last decade, more than 600 foundations have invested more than 2 billion dollars in efforts to reshape New York City’s schools. While some foundations based outside the City have been major donors, New York City-based foundations also have...
Kathleen Regan To Join Commonwealth Fund As Executive Vice President and COO
Release Date:
07/09/2014
Kathleen Regan will become The Commonwealth Fund’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer on Jan. 1, 2015, succeeding John E. Craig, Jr.
Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)
Release Date:
11/12/2015
At Communities In Schools, we went through a decade-long effort to emphasize quality over scale, writes Dan Cardinali, CIS president.
The Robert Bowne Foundation Spends Down
Release Date:
01/15/2016
For the Robert Bowne Foundation, the loss of over one-third of its funds forced it to consider spending down its remaining assets.
29
Sep
2016
501(c)4s - Increasing Your Impact with Creative Grantmaking
Thursday, September 29, 2016 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Strategic philanthropy is increasingly requiring advocacy and creative collaboration to achieve its goals. Funders, investors, and social entrepreneurs are eager to go beyond traditional grantmaking to employ innovative approaches to achieving...
George Soros, Mastercard to Partner to Aid Migrants, Refugees
Release Date:
01/19/2017
Billionaire investor George Soros will partner with Mastercard Inc on a venture they said could help migrants, refugees and others struggling within their communities worldwide to improve their economic and social status.
BNY Mellon and United Nations Foundation Publish Report for Advancing Gender Equality
Release Date:
01/26/2017
... and tap into a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by investing in companies that are gender-diverse, led by ...
PhilTV This Week: Feb. 10, 2017
Release Date:
02/13/2017
... Surdna Foundation Commits $100 Million to Impact Investing Rita Allen Foundation Supports Digital Democracy ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Is Addressing 'Silent Killer' - Drowning Deaths
Release Date:
05/15/2017
While deaths by drowning have fallen steadily since the 1970s in the United States, especially for children, the same trend is not visible in poorer countries around the world. Many of these deaths are preventable with common sense strategies of...
Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/05/2017
The once sleepy world of corporate philanthropy has been perking up lately. An older model of giving—which often involved cutting lots of checks to local charities without asking many questions—is giving way to a more focused and strategic approach...
The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Leading Philanthropists to Announce Co-Impact, A Global Collaborative for Systems Change
Release Date:
11/16/2017
Co-Impact will make large multi-year investments in health, education, and economic opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people around the world
Dana K. Bezerra Named President of Heron Foundation
Release Date:
11/20/2017
Dana K. Bezerra will assume the role of President at Heron as of December 31, 2017, the Heron Foundation announced today.
New Report Funded by JPB Foundation says u.S. Cities Can save Billions with Green, Resilient Design
Release Date:
02/08/2018
A new report released yesterday stresses that making it a de facto policy for U.S. cities would be a cost-effective design solution that could save millions, and even billions, of dollars.
Prudential Foundation Joins Donors Pool $40 Million to Light a Fire Under Pay-for-Success Programs
Release Date:
05/14/2018
... they hope will provide a nudge to a stalled form of social investing . The Community Outcomes Fund was started by $20 ...
Ford Foundation’s Build Initiative is Hitting Its Stride
Release Date:
08/14/2018
... that. “Organized philanthropy in the United States is investing tens of billions of dollars a year in the nonprofit sector, and we need to be investing it in the right ways that are going to get us the ...
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Supports Play in Michigan Schools
Release Date:
08/22/2018
Playworks , the leading national nonprofit leveraging the power of play to transform children's social and emotional health, recently announced a multiyear grant of $4,590,371 from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation.
Salesforce.org Announces $18 Million in Grants Towards Bay Area Education, Homelessness and Cleanliness at Dreamforce 2018
Release Date:
09/25/2018
The $18 million includes $15.5 million in grants to San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), $2 million dollars in grants to address homelessness and hunger in the Bay Area, and a $500,000 grant to...
A Decade of Impact: Bloomberg LP Improves Energy Efficiency by 45%
Release Date:
04/11/2019
Bloomberg LP’s sustainable business practices have improved the company’s energy efficiency by 45% since 2008, avoiding more than 1 million metric tonnes of CO2e emissions, according to the company’s 10 th annual Impact Report released today.
With Support from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Nature Conservancy Invites Applications for Natural Climate Solutions Accelerator Grant
Release Date:
06/11/2019
Through the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Nature Conservancy has issued a Request for Proposals for two additional rounds of grant funding.