Ms. Foundation President Writes in 'The Hill' About Protecting Water in Flint, Standing Rock
Release Date:
12/08/2016
... pipeline, the threat to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’ s access to clean water remains... Ms. Foundation President ...
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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Five Organizations Selected to Receive First Spark Prize
Release Date:
01/10/2017
... its kind celebrating excellence and impact in Brooklyn’ s thriving nonprofit sector. Each of the five Spark Prize ...
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Teams With Columbia Journalism School
Release Date:
01/18/2017
... Graduate School of Journalism, in New York City. The SNF’ s grant towards Columbia University’ s Journalism School, for the purposes of the program’ s implementation, totals $1.3 million and...
Ford, Blaustein, Levy and Overbrook Join Push to Protect Journalists
Release Date:
01/18/2017
... to Protect Journalists Months before actress Meryl Streep' s plug at the Golden Globes for the Committee to Protect Journalists, Donald Trump was on the group' s radar for his contempt for reporters...
Doris Duke Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative
Release Date:
01/24/2017
... Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative 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...
UJA-Federation of New York Convenes Panel on Growing Poverty on Long Island
Release Date:
01/30/2017
A Poverty forum hosted by the Mid-Island Y JCC and UJA-Federation of New York convened a panel of experts to examine the causes and possible supports to address growing poverty on Long Island, where there are an...
A Closer Look at NY Fund for Women and Girls, Co-Founded by NoVo and New York Women’s Foundation
Release Date:
02/09/2017
... Women and Girls, Co-Founded by NoVo and New York Women’ s Foundation The NYC Fund for Girls and Women of Color brings ... 16 funders. This collaboration isn’t brand new, but it’ s the first fund of its kind in...
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Series Continues
Release Date:
02/10/2017
... Series continued on Feb. 8 at Columbia University’ s Faculty House in Morningside Heights. How Do Early Life ... by Frances Champagne, PhD highlighted the brain’ s plasticity and the effects of the environment...
Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation
Release Date:
02/22/2017
... for racial justice, hiring faculty experts in the field, supporting postdoctoral and graduate fellows and funding a ... a report containing recommendations from the university’ s Working Group on Slavery,...
Weinberg Foundation Launches Annual Community-Wide Book Drive Benefiting Baltimore Library Project
Release Date:
03/01/2017
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, tomorrow will launch its 6 th annual community-wide Book Drive in support of the Baltimore Elementary and Middle School Library Project.
Rauch Foundation Hosts 2017 Imagine Awards to Celebrate 'A Community Where Everyone Belongs'
Release Date:
03/06/2017
... training, adult developmental activities, children’ s services, employment services, interpreting services, and ...
Ford's Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The Soul Of The Country’ and Are Worth Fighting For
Release Date:
03/21/2017
Ford' s Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The Soul Of The Country’ ... Americans for the Arts, a national organization devoted to supporting nonprofit arts... Ford' s Darren Walker Says Arts...
Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List
Release Date:
03/29/2017
Commonwealth Fund' s Kathy Regan Makes City and State' s Above & Beyond 2017 List The day after Donald Trump was ... the country and around the globe. Provoked by Trump’ s...
Open Society Foundations and Other Funders Mobilizing to Counter Hate
Release Date:
03/29/2017
... Hate One of the most disturbing aspects of Donald Trump' s election in November is that it was followed by a sharp ... incidents that created a climate of fear for many in the U. S . Such incidents include...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Representatives Tour Renovated Labs at University of Miami
Release Date:
03/31/2017
... the representatives visited the areas the bank’ s donation supported: the Bank of America Molecular and Cell ... Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Holtz Children’ s Hospital at the University of Miami/...
Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights
Release Date:
04/19/2017
... to advance human rights through science and medicine. To be disbursed over four years, the largest contribution in PHR' s thirty-year history will provide a dollar for every two .....
Gay Rights Group Turns Down Bank of America’s Money Over HB2 Compromise
Release Date:
05/09/2017
Gay Rights Group Turns Down Bank of America’ s Money Over HB2 Compromise The nation’ s largest gay rights group plans to reject $325,000 in Bank ... played in brokering a replacement for North Carolina’ s...
Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit Convenes Nation’s Leaders To Discuss “Rising Debt in a Changing Economy”
Release Date:
05/24/2017
Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit Convenes Nation’ s Leaders To Discuss “Rising Debt in a Changing Economy” ... us on a better path, at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’ s 2017 Fiscal Summit: Rising Debt in a...
Century Foundation: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Worth Saving
Release Date:
06/15/2017
... After decades of decline and political indifference, the U. S . manufacturing is getting fresh attention. “American ... and supported bold new investments in the nation’ s manufacturing capacity.2 President...
Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Release Date:
07/24/2017
... to support access and opportunity for New Yorkers by year' s end, describes philanthropy as something that' s in her DNA. Foundation Center' s Jen Bokoff, a former employee of...