Reimagining Service: Helping Grantees Increase Volunteer Capacity to Maximize Program Impact
Release Date:
02/14/2012
... Service and Cities of Service initiatives and how supporting volunteer capacity can strengthen grantees and ...
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The Sky Really is Falling…Now What? A New Working Group for Funders
Release Date:
04/03/2012
On the heels of a new Foundation Center report on the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the field of social justice philanthropy, and a Philanthropy New York program exploring the report, Cricket Island Foundation Executive Director Liz Sak...
Grantmakers Play an Important Role in Comprehensive Immigration Reform Efforts
Release Date:
02/20/2013
The Carnegie Corporation of New York’ s Geri Mannion is quoted in this article examining the work ... the Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation) supporting immigration reform. Laughter and jokes belie...
Hartford Foundation Awards $1.35 Million to Gerontological Society of America
Release Date:
02/10/2013
The three-year grant will establish the Hartford/GSA National Center on Gerontological Social Work Excellence.
With A.L.S. in Family, Chief at Bloomberg Joins Fight
Release Date:
02/06/2013
... developed a limp one day, was found to have Lou Gehrig’ s disease, and died within two years. Then an uncle also ... of the same disease, and died soon after... With A.L. S . in Family, Chief at Bloomberg Joins...
Anti-Polio Campaign Gets Big Cash Infusion
Release Date:
02/28/2013
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a $100 million donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, bolstering fellow philanthropist Bill Gates' support of GPEI.
Small Nonprofit Newsroom Wins Pulitzer for Reporting
Release Date:
04/16/2013
InsideClimate News, a five-year-old nonprofit environmental journalism outlet supported in part by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its investigation of a pipeline oil spill in Michigan.
Thousands participate in Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure
Release Date:
05/11/2013
Attendance at the charity’ s signature fundraising event did decline for the second ... Global Race for the Cure, but attendance at the charity’ s signature fundraising event was down for a second ... year. The...
Impact Investing in the Middle East: What Next?
Release Date:
06/06/2013
... East and North Africa (MENA) has made recent gains in supporting entrepreneurship at a strategic level, but a ...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $7.8 Million to Sixteen Physician-Scientists
Release Date:
07/19/2013
The grants, part of the foundation’ s annual Clinical Scientist Development Awards competition, ...
The 2012 Election with MSNBC's Chris Hayes: Power Tools to Build a Better Democracy
Publication date:
09/2012
The program focused on philanthropy’ s role in enabling all U. S . citizens to engage more deeply in the information they ... responsive political system. The 2012 Election with MSNBC' s Chris Hayes: Power Tools to Build a Better Democracy .....
How to Build Strong Ties With Companies
Release Date:
10/08/2013
American Express Foundation President Timothy McClimon and DoSomething,org CEO Nancy Lublin participated in a Chronicle Live Discussion on how nonprofits can make themselves more attractive to a corporate benefactor.
George Soros receives 2013 Freedom Award
Release Date:
11/06/2013
... Open Society Foundations , received the award at the IRC' s annual Freedom Award Benefit Dinner on November 6. Watch .....
Robin Hood Gala Brings in $60-Million for Antipoverty Groups
Release Date:
05/14/2014
New York’ s Robin Hood Foundation raised $60-million for ... night at its annual gala, the biggest event on the city’ s philanthropic social circuit, writes The Wall Street ... and their families, will get $35-...
Open Society Foundations Announces 2014 Soros Justice Fellows
Release Date:
05/15/2014
The Open Society Foundations has announced the 2014 class of Soros Justice Fellows. The fourteen fellows from six states will receive a total of $1.25 million in support of their work on a range of criminal justice issues, from solitary confinement...
Arcus Foundation Awards Summer 2014 Social Justice Grants
Release Date:
06/30/2014
... rights. The grants were part of the foundation' s Social Justice Program.... Arcus Foundation Awards Summer .....
George Clooney and Carnegie Corp. Launch 100 Lives Campaign
Release Date:
03/12/2015
The initiative aims celebrate those who saved Armenians during the genocide, and support individuals and organizations that keep the legacy of gratitude alive.
Rockefeller Foundation Pledges 100,000 Jobs for Kenyan Youth
Release Date:
03/31/2015
Kenya is among six countries set to benefit from the seven-year $100 million venture.
Seven Cities Compete for Citi Foundation's Urban Renewal Initiative
Release Date:
04/13/2015
Seven Cities Compete for Citi Foundation' s Urban Renewal Initiative Seven U. S . cities have made it to the final round of the Living ... New Orleans and Seattle—from which three cities will be...
Atlantic Philanthropies Pledges $197 Million for Fellowship and Institute
Release Date:
06/01/2016
... Two major initiatives will deepen and extend Atlantic’ s legacy of supporting new generations of leaders who will improve lives ...