Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Five Organizations Selected to Receive First Spark Prize
Release Date:
01/10/2017
... celebrating excellence and impact in Brooklyn’s thriving nonprofit sector. Each of the five Spark Prize recipients ...
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Doris Duke Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative
Release Date:
01/24/2017
These days, to be a conservation funder is to be a climate change funder. At least that ought to be the case. Because how do you conserve a wetland that’s drying up? How do you protect a dwindling species when it’s fled from its changing habitat?
Bank of America Grant and Volunteers Support Partnership with Eva’s Village
Release Date:
01/25/2017
... Village Eva’s Village, a Paterson, NJ, anti-poverty, nonprofit organization, partners with local businesses and ...
Shatterproof Awarded $600,000 Grant by Helmsley Charitable Trust
Release Date:
01/31/2017
... Charitable Trust Shatterproof, the leading national nonprofit working to reduce the devastation of addiction, has ...
Ford's Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The Soul Of The Country’ and Are Worth Fighting For
Release Date:
03/21/2017
... the Arts, a national organization devoted to supporting nonprofit arts... Ford's Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The .....
Markle Foundation Collaborates With LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’s Impact on Jobs
Release Date:
04/14/2017
... Foundation, LinkedIn, Arizona State University and edX, a nonprofit provider of online courses. Markle Foundation ...
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Supports Employment Opportunities for Adults with Disabilities
Release Date:
04/18/2017
... from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, the nonprofit Penn-Mar Human Services , an Employment First ...
New York Stem Cell Foundation HQ is a Linchpin for Biotech
Release Date:
05/05/2017
... attract biotech startups. Since its launch in 2005, the nonprofit has become a pillar of the life sciences community ...
IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy
Release Date:
06/08/2017
IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy IBM is channeling its science and tech expertise into tackling some of the world's biggest problems. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced the launch of...
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Provides Support to Sheltering Arms to Open New Building to Serve Children and Families
Release Date:
08/25/2017
... Children and Families Sheltering Arms, Georgia’s largest nonprofit early education and child care organization, ...
To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... for jail. Ms. Davis, who works for a criminal justice nonprofit contracted by the city, was their best hope. One by ...
Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... report released Wednesday by the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit organization working to end gender-based violence. ...
Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... rich donors, high-level government executives, and lots of nonprofit leaders all on stage together, which produced more ...
New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Eighty cities are currently seeking $9.5 billion for 89 water management projects, according to a new report from international non-profit CDP with infrastructure firm AECOM and backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
My Brother’s Keeper Merges with Obama Foundation
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... initiative that later spun off into a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit known as the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, or ...
LGBTQ Groups Adjust to More Married Donors
Release Date:
09/07/2017
The revolution in civil and legal rights for LGBTQ Americans has wrought a parallel shift in fundraising tactics for nonprofits that worked to bring about those changes. Charities that once focused mostly on unmarried, often childless people are now...
New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... individuals and family offices, pension funds, banks and nonprofit foundations, the company said. . . New York ...
The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Communications strategy should be flexible, scrappy, and accessible to everyone on your team. This four-question framework, rooted in social science, can help organizations craft an effective strategy that drives real social change.
Foundation Presidents Defend Donor-Advised Funds—Is That the Best They Can Do?
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Earlier this month, a coalition of philanthropic trade associations—namely, the Council of Foundations, Independent Sector, The Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Columbus Foundation (on behalf of community foundations)—wrote a letter (which...
Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return
Release Date:
09/20/2017
Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8. 1 Percent Return Describing the results as ... Harvard University reported on Tuesday that its $37. 1 billion endowment earned an 8. 1 percent return...