The new $8 million commitment is part of its continuing Fill the Plate initiative and an expansion of its employee volunteer arrangement with Feeding America.
The key components of the grant will expand the firm’s Flex Grants program, to help twenty-five local food banks start, grow and sustain childhood feeding programs annually.
Kerry Sullivan, president of the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, explains the importance of volunteer programs that offer employees an opportunity to connect in a meaningful way with nonprofits serving community needs.
Bob Doherty, New Jersey president for Bank of America, said that the Bank of America Charitable Foundation is contributing $2 for every $1 given to eligible food banks this year, up to a total match of $1.5 million.
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) today announced a $3.8 million grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to support programs focused on reviving local economies, including efforts to help residents build employment skills...
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is giving $500,000 to the Shriver Corps, an initiative to train volunteers to help connect poor Americans with programs they may not know about but that could help lift them out of poverty.
For the past year, experts and stakeholders across the country have worked together to develop a new industrial policy that explicitly ties the goals of rebuilding America’s manufacturing base to that of revitalizing economically vulnerable...
Presented in partnership with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, this video features a panel of millennials sharing diverse visions on how we can move beyond the partisan divide. From Newark to the battleground of Afghanistan, from campuses across the...
The initiative will feature blitz build in New York City and will revitalize neighborhoods in the U.S., U.K., Canada, China, Australia, Indonesia, Philippines and India.
American Panorama, a detailed graphical representation of immigration history, was created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.