How Should Philanthropies Respond to Emergencies?
Release Date:
05/13/2014
... be voting on the bankruptcy plan. As this date nears and more and more retiree groups support the plan, the foundations’ ...
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Investment in Light Rail Program Helps Create Jobs, Stimulate Economy
Release Date:
06/17/2014
... can create jobs, stimulate local economies and foster more equitable and resilient communities. In a post on the ... success by any measure: Since work on the Green Line began more than five years ago,...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Joins Impact Investment Efforts
Release Date:
06/25/2014
... investments. The foundation's commitment was one of more than 20 new private sector pledges to drive more than $1.5 billion into impact investments that .....
Wealthy Should Be Encouraged To Start Giving Sooner
Release Date:
07/18/2014
... prevent today’s urgent problems from becoming larger, more entrenched, and more expensive challenges later," according to Christopher G. .....
New Komen Head Says Organization's Mission is To Save Lives
Release Date:
07/18/2014
... officer last June, said that to make the most of its more limited funds and work more efficiently toward finding a cure, Komen will ...
Rockefeller Foundation Partners with HUD for National Disaster Resilience Competition
Release Date:
09/18/2014
... the impacts of climate change and support investments in more resilient infrastructure. Given the complexity of the ... multi-faceted approach that is required to build toward a more resilient future. The...
Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Confidence Index Finds that National Debt is Top Priority for Voters
Release Date:
09/30/2014
... is 41 (100 is neutral), indicating Americans want to see more action from their leaders in Washington as they head to ... must focus on -- 85% of voters want Washington to spend more time addressing the nation...
Bank of America Among Organizations Supporting Giving Tuesday
Release Date:
10/16/2014
... online giving increased 90% for 3,800 nonprofits– more than $19.2 million–compared to 2012, according to ... November 18 through January 10, Bank of America donated $2 more , up to a total match of $1,500,000...
Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million
Release Date:
11/21/2014
... to support nonprofits working to collect feedback and be more effective today announced its first round of grants. ... to give away at least $5-million to $6-million a year, or more if additional grant makers...
F.B. Heron and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Lauded for Granting Unrestricted Funding
Release Date:
02/03/2015
... but are sometimes using outdated practices that are often more grounded in an inside-out, funder-centric point of view ... and systems we seek to change. We need to become far more outside in, driven by...
Casey Family Programs and the President's Advisory Council Work to Improve Financial Capability for Young People
Release Date:
03/09/2015
... many ways opportunity begins with financial literacy. The more young people understand their financial choices, the more likely they are to manage their money effectively, save ...
Verizon Foundation to Match Employee Contributions to Nepal Relief Efforts
Release Date:
04/28/2015
... earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday, claiming more than 3,000 lives, injuring more than 7,000, leaving many unaccounted for and razing ...
Morgan Stanley Foundation Announces $1 Million in Grants to Local Food Banks Across the United States
Release Date:
05/28/2015
... past three years, this specific grant program has awarded more than $4 million from the Firm to help launch, expand and ... Feeding America, Morgan Stanley Foundation has awarded more than $14 million to the...
Survey Shows Afterschool Participation Grows but Unmet Demand Nears 20 Million Children
Release Date:
07/07/2015
... up parks and playgrounds, and by participating in many more activities that prepare them for college, career and ... enrolled in an afterschool program, there are two more who are not – and whose parents would...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research
Release Date:
09/17/2015
... for example, increased from near zero in 2010 to more than $100 million in 2014 – more than three times the amount spent by the National ...
NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High
Release Date:
11/02/2015
... The Rockefeller Foundation, with an endowment of more than $3 billion, is focusing on the theme of resilience, ... the hope that its grants will make cities and communities more sustainable. And the John D...
New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education
Release Date:
12/07/2015
... York’s leading charitable foundations, I’ve overseen more than $1 billion in grants to nonprofits doing vital ... well-targeted grants make a huge difference. It’s even more effective when a foundation like...
"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says
Release Date:
12/10/2015
... a variation on a catastrophe bond, could help cities deal more effectively with climate change-related disasters, ... the size of catastrophe-related losses. . . Also, more on these bonds Wall Street Journal...
Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos
Release Date:
01/21/2016
... which has already taken on challenges like making cities more “resilient” to the challenges of the 21st century, ... amount of wasted food, the foundation believes, could feed more than 1.5 billion people...
Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers
Release Date:
02/16/2016
... island jail was a dated facility, and that the smaller, more technically advanced jails that can be built today would be “ more appropriate.” “You could design a facility that ...