Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban
Release Date:
07/14/2015
Energy company wants to drill natural-gas well using waterless method.
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Three Important Steps Philanthropies Are Taking to Curb Climate Change
Release Date:
07/29/2015
... Congress is logrolling, philanthropies are catalyzing lasting , positive change on climate, perhaps the most ...
Tiffany & Co. Foundation Opens Public Garden in The Battery
Release Date:
08/25/2015
... in The Battery U.S. jeweler Tiffany & Co. is making a lasting impression on its hometown of New York with the ...
MetLife Releases 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report
Release Date:
09/23/2015
MetLife Foundation provided more than $27 million in financial inclusion grants in year two of its $200 million, five-year commitment.
The Source Codes of Foundation Culture
Publication date:
10/2015
Over the last several years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better understand what contributes to and impedes efforts to lead productive change in philanthropy. One theme that has arisen time and again is the importance of creating and nurturing an organizational culture that enables grantmakers to be most effective.
New York Community Trust Adds Funds to the QueensWay Plan
Release Date:
10/16/2015
The QueensWay gets greener even as the leaves on the trees growing along the abandoned Rockaway Beach Rail Line turn orange and red.
Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman
Release Date:
11/05/2015
A preschool program funded by Goldman Sachs is under scrutiny for its methods of measuring success for the students.
Indian Government to Remove Ford Foundation from Watch List
Release Date:
01/08/2016
Restrictions against the Ford Foundation placed by the Indian Government are being lifted after the foundation registered itself under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA.)
Ford, Rockefeller, OSF and NY Women’s Foundation Leaders Appointed to Commission on NYC Justice Reform
Release Date:
03/18/2016
Former chief judge Jonathan Lippman has announced the members of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform.
Ford Foundation Taken Off Watch List by Indian Government
Release Date:
03/21/2016
Days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U.S., the Home Ministry issued orders to remove the U.S.-based Ford Foundation from the “prior permission” category.
Three Ways Ford Foundation's Shift To Inequality Will Affect Nonprofits Everywhere
Release Date:
05/24/2016
Three nonprofit executives from Forbes Nonprofit Council discuss what Ford Foundation’s public shift to inequality means for the nonprofit world as well as how it will affect their own organizations.
Clark Foundation Brothers Feuded, But Also Made Two Towns Arts Destinations
Release Date:
06/20/2016
... in the 19th century, the Clark family left a large and lasting imprint on two towns split by 87 miles, one state ...
Westchester Community Foundation Helps Students Turn Opportunity Into College Degrees
Release Date:
06/21/2016
Last month, four former Yonkers Public Schools students graduated from the private liberal-arts college in Vermont's Green Mountains with four-year degrees.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App
Release Date:
06/29/2016
For the last few years the Brooklyn Museum has been prototyping ways to reach visitors on a more personal level.
Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2016 Scholars
Release Date:
06/30/2016
... focus on areas of global concern, opportunities for lasting outcomes, collaborations, and demonstration of ...
Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces Revised Funding Areas
Release Date:
08/02/2016
We are staying true to our roots and are clearer now about how to drive significant change on the most urgent issues of our time.
UJA-Federation Names New Chief Program Officer
Release Date:
08/16/2016
UJA-Federation of New York announced the appointment of Rabbi Deborah Joselow as UJA-Federation's Chief Program Officer.
Carnegie's Kim Lew Voices Concerns on Low-Return Environments for Foundation Endowments
Release Date:
08/24/2016
Kim Lew, chief investment officer of the Carnegie Corporation, raised another concern in the low-return environment: the move by endowments into riskier assets.
UJA-Federation of New York's Supplies for Success Program Fills Backpacks in Time for Back-to-School
Release Date:
09/07/2016
About 200 volunteers of all ages came together last week through the UJA-Federation of New York's Supplies for Success program to fill backpacks with donated school supplies destined for local children in need of a hand to start the school year on a...
Kalief Browder's Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail
Release Date:
10/21/2016
Venida Browder's death is example of the price families and communities pay when a loved one is unjustly jailed.