Financing the Social Sector
Release Date:
09/15/2014
... ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and various crowd-funding initiatives on Kickstarter and other social media sites, what ...
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Will Divest Charity From Fossil Fuels
Release Date:
09/22/2014
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has pledged to eliminate assets tied to fossil fuels.
Whatever Happened to Obama’s ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ in NYC?
Release Date:
11/12/2014
Local organizations, such as the Elmezzi Foundation, received smaller planning grants, but were not selected for the larger implementation awards.
Rockefeller Foundation to Announce Second Batch of Resilient Cities
Release Date:
12/02/2014
Cities were selected from an applicant pool spanning 94 countries.
Bill de Blasio’s Mayor’s Fund Raises $120K for Two Murdered NYPD Officers
Release Date:
12/29/2014
... wife, is also urging more New Yorkers to support initiatives that, in the words of the de Blasio ...
Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge
Release Date:
01/07/2015
Aetna will award up to six organization as much as $750,000 each to help reduce chronic health conditions.
Ford Foundation Bets on Slow Food Movement to Help Global Poor
Release Date:
01/23/2015
Ford's grants help Slow Food USA promote food and economic security in poor rural an urban households in South and Latin America.
Rockefeller Foundation Taps Skilled Workforce in Kenya
Release Date:
02/17/2015
Rockefeller made the investment as part if its Digital Jobs Africa program.
Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations
Release Date:
03/12/2015
Nonprofit Finance Fund has received a $485,000 planning grant for the first year of the project, focused on the development of a multi-phased, comprehensive initiative to help small-to-midsize arts organizations navigate, adapt and thrive amid ever-...
Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring
Release Date:
03/13/2015
The CDC Foundation has announced a two-year, $14 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries.
Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College
Release Date:
03/16/2015
Gift will provide financial aid to college students, many of whom are immigrants.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Backs Panel to Explore Ways to Keep Women in STEM Fields
Release Date:
03/23/2015
Women account for half the college-educated American workforce but only 28 percent of science and engineering workers.
Sloan Foundation Awards $3 Million for Minority PhDs in STEM Fields
Release Date:
03/27/2015
The main goal of the initiative is to increase the diversity of graduate education in the sciences, mathematics and engineering.
Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research
Release Date:
04/10/2015
Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness in the United States and globally.
Capital One Launches Fund to Assist Nonprofit Developers
Release Date:
06/08/2015
... complete predevelopment activities for several new housing initiatives that could create nearly 1,000 units of ...
MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China
Release Date:
07/20/2015
The $1.8 million grant will help Opportunity International provide services to 4200 small businesses.
GroundTruth Announces $1 Million Project on Climate Change
Release Date:
08/18/2015
GroundTruth is supported by Ford and The Henry Luce Foundation, among other funders.
Citi Foundation, America’s Promise Award $3 Million for Youth
Release Date:
08/27/2015
One-year grants of $250,000 each were awarded through the Youth Opportunity Fund, part of the Citi Foundation's Pathways to Progress initiative.
'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color
Release Date:
09/02/2015
... that role in 2014 after six years as NoVo’s Director of Initiatives for Girls and Women. “But everything is not ...
Carnegie Corporation of New York Launches Redesigned Carnegie.Org
Release Date:
09/22/2015
... of citizenship incorporating grantee voices, social media initiatives , historical documents, and multimedia through ...