Assessing the How of Grantmaking
Publication date:
04/2014
... should be able to answer about how it makes grants: Does our grantmaking align with our intentions? Are our grants structured to be successful? Are we efficient in ...
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MetLife Foundation and The Wall Street Journal Raise Awareness about Financial Inclusion
Release Date:
09/10/2015
... growing financial flows, more than a third of the global population is still financially excluded. It is an economic ... 1.2 billion people in Asia, nearly 30% of the region’s population , still do not have...
Simons Foundation Study Shows New Insights on Ocean Microoganisms
Release Date:
01/26/2016
For microorganisms in the oceans -- including those that capture half of the carbon taken out of the atmosphere every day -- viruses are a major threat. But a paper to be published Jan. 25, 2016 in the journal Nature Microbiology shows that there's...
Internet to Newspapers: Drop Dead—A Program Recap with Nicholas Lemann and Victor Pickard
Release Date:
06/12/2009
... used to be provided by the market is now slipping out of our hands. To my mind, we need to be creative about how news ... at the hands of the Internet miss the bigger picture— our current crisis isn’t about...
Newman's Own Foundation Names Dr. Rafael Pérez-Escamilla to Board of Directors
Release Date:
01/11/2022
... Own Foundation has announced the election of global public health expert Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD, to its board of ... date. Dr. Pérez-Escamilla is Professor of Public Health , Director of the Office of...
Heads Up: These Tax Reform Proposals Could Help or Hurt Nonprofits
Release Date:
08/16/2017
... After the failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaders of the U.S. House and Senate are even more ... hard. Eliminating the Estate Tax: As we noted in our 2017 Policy Slate list of issues we...
New York Life Foundation Awards $1 Million to Comfort Zone Camp
Release Date:
07/13/2013
The two-year, $1 million grant is in support of organizational capacity building for Comfort Zone Camp, a bereavement camp for youth between the ages of 7 and 17, and a new program model designed to increase the number of campers it serves.
B. Altman, a Store From Yesteryear, Still Makes Its Presence Felt in the City
Release Date:
11/28/2013
The New York Times examined the history and work of the Altman Foundation and spoke with its president, Jane B. O'Connell, who is the daughter and sister of the last two presidents of the store and the foundation.
Rockefeller Report Cited by Geena Davis at United Nations Convening
Release Date:
03/13/2015
“The first-ever global study of female characters in popular films, launched today, reveals deep-seated discrimination and pervasive stereotyping of women and girls by the international film industry,” according to UN Women, which supported the...
Research to Prevent Blindess Finds New Clues to Vision Loss in Macular Degeneration
Release Date:
09/02/2015
The research sheds light on one of the leading causes of blindness in industrialized countries.
Citi Foundation and Americas Promise Alliance Announce the Launch of the 2016 Youth Opportunity Fund
Release Date:
04/06/2016
Local nonprofits working innovatively to catalyze career opportunities for low-income youth are encouraged to submit program ideas through May 2, 2016.
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation President Says Jersey Water Works Initiative is a Powerful Collaboration
Release Date:
04/27/2016
... formed to address the problems of New Jersey’s aging urban water infrastructure, today released ...
William T. Grant Foundation Invites Proposals for New York City Youth Service Improvement Grants
Release Date:
07/25/2016
The William T. Grant Foundation seeks to improve the lives of youth by supporting small to medium-size organizations that have already had some success but lack the funds to make needed improvements.
Dyson Foundation Contributes to Longform Nonfiction Work
Release Date:
11/10/2016
I have good news for all of the journalism purists out there. Funders continue to see the value of deep and transformative investigative work in an age of 140 characters.
Wallace Foundation Supports Alvin Ailey Program to Inspire Young New Yorkers
Release Date:
12/01/2016
The Ailey organization is launching a Young New York program in conjunction with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's annual holiday season at New York City Center (November 30 - December 31).
Long Island Community Foundation Provides At-Risk Seniors With Fresh Produce And Nutrition Education
Release Date:
01/25/2017
Many residents in New Cassel living below the federal poverty line have limited access to fresh food at a reasonable price.
Simons Foundation Supports Brain Scans That Identify If Baby Sibling Also Has Autism
Release Date:
02/16/2017
By using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of infants who have older siblings with autism, scientists were able to correctly identify 80 percent of the babies who would be subsequently diagnosed with autism at 2 years of age.
MetLife Foundation and Special Olympics Announce International Partnership
Release Date:
04/28/2017
Special Olympics and MetLife Foundation, the philanthropic arm of global insurer MetLife, announced a $1.5 million, three year international partnership to expand Special Olympics Young Athletes across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (“EMEA...
Apply Now for WT Grant Foundation's Youth Service Improvement Grant
Release Date:
07/17/2017
The William T. Grant Foundation's Youth Service Improvement Grants support nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City. These awards of $25,000 help improve programs and services for youth ages 5 to 25.
73% of Donors Worldwide Are Women, and Most Like to Give Online, Study Says
Release Date:
09/27/2017
Seventy-three percent of charitable donors in the word are women age 37 or older, and nearly 60 percent of them prefer to give online. Ninety-three percent of them live in primarily wealthy, developed countries.