Critic Calls Grants Aligned With Government Programs "Crony Philanthropy"
Release Date:
07/07/2014
... government, business and philanthropy in the United States have operated independently of each other. It is not ...
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Open Society Foundations Award $5 Million Challenge Grant To Strengthen Innocence Project
Release Date:
07/09/2014
... criminal justice advocacy institution in the United States . The Innocence Project works with people who have ...
Rauch Foundation Strives to Restore Long Island's Water
Release Date:
10/08/2014
Rauch Foundation is funding an awareness campaign to clean up the contamination in Long Island's groundwater.
New Philanthropy Center, Fund for 2025 Respond to Funders’ Needs
Release Date:
10/24/2014
PNY SVP, Michael Remaley, contributed a blog to PhilanTopic about how the Fund for 2025 addresses the needs of PNY members.
NoVo Executive Director Finds Correlation Between Domestic Violence and Other Violent Crimes in NYTimes Editorial
Release Date:
02/04/2015
... more than half of the 110 mass shootings in the United States between January 2009 and July 2014 included the murder ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds "Innovation Team" in Syracuse
Release Date:
03/12/2015
Andrew Maxwell has been named the municipality’s director of policy and innovation and will oversee a team of four in the city’s new Office of Innovation.
Laura Washington Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Director of Communications
Release Date:
04/14/2015
Washington comes to the Mellon Foundation from the New-York Historical Society.
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Peace, Conflict, and the Scale of the Climate Risk Landscape - Webinar
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 -
1:15pm to 2:45pm
The opening webinar to the Global Climate Security series will examine the security implications of climate risk to provide a context for the subsequent place-based and sector-based webinars to follow. This webinar will address climate risk and...
NY Charities Bureau Launches Searchable Database of Non-Profit Dissolutions Approved by Attorney General
Release Date:
08/07/2015
New York’s Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 made changes to the procedures concerning transactions that previously required court approval. Now, petitions for approval of most transactions – disposition of assets (other than by religious...
Is Travel the New Face of Philanthropy?
Release Date:
09/28/2015
... Air Lines, Hostelling International USA and the United States Tour Operators Association. It is the first holistic ...
Kress and Mellon Support First Academic Art Museum and Library Summit
Release Date:
12/09/2015
The Summit will focus on the ways that new pedagogical models and technologies are transforming the work of the academy, and the potential for art museums and libraries to engage more fully with faculty, students, and each other.
New York Community Trust Gives $5.1 million to 42 Nonprofits in the City, Nation
Release Date:
12/11/2015
The New York Community Trust funded a total of $5.1 million worth of projects to make life better for all New Yorkers. This includes programs to develop a bionic eye using flat-screen technology; improve the State’s career and technical education...
Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case
Release Date:
12/11/2015
In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scalia hesitantly asked whether it might be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well”...
Gould Foundation’s Tyre is Author of In-Depth Atlantic Investigative Piece on Math and Low-Income Students
Release Date:
02/12/2016
... Stoner and five teammates were representing the United States in the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad. They ...
Teagle Foundation Gives $2M for College/Community Partnerships
Release Date:
03/14/2016
... for this fifth cycle of support. President Judith Shapiro states , “We have been proud supporters of our ...
New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... is now the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Hurricane Sandy four years ago. Between August ...
Brad Tito Joins Westchester Community Foundation Board Of Advisors
Release Date:
11/08/2016
Mr. Tito, a resident of Edgemont, is a program manager with the Communities and Local Government Division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which works to promote clean energy solutions in New York.
The Century Foundation Rallies Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition
Release Date:
11/18/2016
... this warning not be proved prophetic. While the United States has a robust system of intelligence oversight—the ...
Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President
Release Date:
03/08/2017
... only helping to diversify university faculty in the United States , but who are also contributing groundbreaking ...
Aetna Joins Corporate Effort to Save Hartford Financial and Psychological Slump
Release Date:
03/15/2017
Connecticut may be the wealthiest state in the nation, but you wouldn't know that by visiting its capital, Hartford. Aetna, The Hartford, and Travelers—announced that they would come to the city’s aid with a $50 million collective commitment.