Ford Foundation Appoints John Irons as Director of Inclusive Economies
Release Date:
05/19/2016
... of work: 'Quality Work and Economic Security' and 'Impact Investing .' As director, he will advance Ford's work in .....
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U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance
Release Date:
05/31/2016
While there are distinct differences between younger and older owners, entrepreneurs of all ages share a strong desire to control their own destiny.
Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil
Release Date:
07/28/2016
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund took its first direct stake in a renewable energy company in a move meant to bolster the fight against climate change.
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices
Publication date:
09/2016
For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their strategy, culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they share what they have learned
Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees
Release Date:
02/01/2017
With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children
Release Date:
07/25/2017
The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday, positively impacts children up through the age of 12 but affects male and female children differently, according...
Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/01/2017
... program. Or Heron’s unparalleled commitment to impact investing . Or Wallace Global Fund’s incubation of the ...
Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid
Release Date:
09/13/2017
The clock is ticking. Community Boards 4, 5 and 7 have until October 30 to vote on the de Blasio administration’s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the western Bronx. It’s the first stage of the seven-month Uniform Land Use Review Procedure...
Advancing The Mental Health And Well-Being Movement Through Grant Making: Engaged Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... Movement Through Grant Making: Engaged Philanthropy Investing in the health of a nation requires thoughtful ...
Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP
Release Date:
11/28/2017
Socially conscious investors can look forward to two new exchange-traded funds that aim to direct capital to companies that do well by minorities and women.
How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing
Release Date:
12/12/2017
Last week, the fund launched Propel Democracy, a new $5 million effort that seeks 'to catalyze investment in local organizing strategies that build progressive political power in states of critical electoral importance.'
Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies
Release Date:
02/21/2018
The 2018 edition of the World's Most Innovative Companies spans more than 350 enterprises across 36 categories, from the world's most valuable firm and its continuing transformation of consumer electronics to a small outfit selling natural gum to...
Open Society Foundations Along with Collaboration of Funders Highlight Immigrants’ Vital Role in Ohio Communities
Release Date:
03/16/2018
Open Society Foundations, in partnership with a group of other philanthropy organizations, funded a Cleveland State University report, Our Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio's New Americans, which highlights the crucial role immigrants play in Ohio'...
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan
Release Date:
11/29/2018
... Count, the latest effort led by the foundation, is investing in research to hear directly from teens about what ...
The New York Women’s Foundation Receives $2.25 Million Grant from CBS to support the Fund for the Me Too Movement and Allies
Release Date:
12/14/2018
... beyond news cycles and hashtags. The Fund is focused on investing in organizations led by and for survivors of sexual ... leaders who are building transformational movements and investing in community-led...
SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition
Release Date:
02/21/2019
... and asset classes, Van Fleet’s broad knowledge of investing enabled this impressive senior from Concord High ...
UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot
Release Date:
05/20/2019
UJA-Federation of New York announced today that its Day School Challenge Fund (DSCF) has generated $84 million in new endowment dollars for participating Jewish day schools and yeshivot in New York.
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javon robinson.png Javon began her career in public service by joining NYC Service’s Civic Corps, a ... to increase the math and financial knowledge of over 300 public school students. Upon completion of service,...
Ford Foundation's Tellado Named CEO of Consumer Reports
Release Date:
07/15/2014
... organization September 1. Tellado began her career in public policy, advocacy and social justice working alongside Ralph Nader and Joan Claybrook at Public Citizen. Over her career, she has served as Executive...
The Secret to More Effective Philanthropy: Funding the Unknown
Release Date:
03/28/2013
An op-ed by Elizabeth Good Christopherson, President and CEO of the Rita Allen Foundation, in anticipation of the May 2013 Ashoka Future Forum in Washington, D.C.