UJA-Federation of New York Mobilizes 3,000 Volunteers for 70 Service Projects on MLK Day
Release Date:
01/16/2019
... service projects to help people in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester by providing warm meals to the ...
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27
Jan
2021
Connected? Broadband Access Remains a Challenge - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
As we continue to see a record number of COVID-19 cases throughout the United States, it is imperative that we stay in, stay socially distanced, and stay connected through high-speed internet access. Join us to discuss what grantmakers are doing to...
24
Oct
2011
Taking the Next Steps Toward a Greater Collective Impact
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 8:45am to Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 9:30am
... first featured in the Winter 2011 Issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. To utilize a Collective Impact ... actors commit to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem and agree that each...
F.B. Heron Foundation Leads Foundations Toward 100 Percent Impact Investment
Release Date:
07/02/2015
... cooperative shares, warrants, and hybrid instruments) have social as well as financial repercussions. These social and financial repercussions can be positive or ...
Smart Donors Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge
Release Date:
07/20/2015
... has been a summer of political campaigning and stunning social change: hateful flags coming down, rainbow flags going ... on inequality, aiming to use its capital to create a " social -justice...
Historian O’Connor Comments on New Ford Foundation Strategy
Release Date:
08/04/2015
... Foundation’s top priority going forward will be reducing social and economic inequality, which he sees as ... embedded…in markets, political institutions, social attitudes, and cultural norms…not something…...
Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty
Release Date:
08/18/2015
... Ford Foundation views the arts as critical to advancing social justice: “The arts quite simply enable us to be fully human. As a foundation committed to social justice, the creative spirit that gives us art...
Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform
Release Date:
11/19/2015
... the announcement was met with widespread praise from social justice and child welfare advocates. The Southern ... the Connecticut Democratic Party all shared the news on social media feeds, many trumpeting it...
Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks
Release Date:
04/29/2016
... to help strengthen institutions and networks critical to social movements. Reich currently serves as director of ... and networks that serve as pillars of broader social movements... Ford Foundation Names...
NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing
Release Date:
04/17/2017
... “earn not only attractive financial returns but concrete social returns as well,” as it said in a news release. ... education, as with college and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private...
NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders
Release Date:
06/22/2017
... the idea that the wealthy are harnessing their fortunes to social good and we're excited by the prospect of lots of new money flowing into the social sector. What's a cause for concern, though, is...
Collective Impact Without Borders
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... structured, cross-sector approach to solving complex social problems—in 2011, we have deepened our ... and aim to address a wide variety of challenges (including social mobility in Israel, fisheries...
BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... to ending childhood hunger, and BBH NY have launched a social media campaign that uses emojis to combat the issue of ... to buy food to help feed a hungry child. Launching on social media, the campaign...
A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... vision that the arts can be a powerful vehicle for social change. The Rauschenberg Foundation, meanwhile, has ... concerned with the broader connections between art and social activism. … A Spectrum of Change...
Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP
Release Date:
11/28/2017
... "build a platform to better align capital with meaningful social priorities that have greater impact and at lower .....
How Salesforce is Innovating Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Giving
Release Date:
03/09/2018
... game plan. Dubbed Philanthropy Cloud, it’s a “ social giving platform” that riffs off the company’s ... programs seem so lackluster. In the age of crowdfunding, social media, and, yes, Netflix, personalization...
Rini Banerjee Welcomed as New President of The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
Release Date:
12/10/2018
... track record, extensive experience, and deep commitment to social justice that we were looking for in our next ... Banerjee brings more than twenty years of experience in social justice philanthropy. As the...
18
Jul
2012
Black Communities and Philanthropy: A Conversation on Past Trends, Current Challenges and the Future
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 -
8:30am to 11:00am
Philanthropy New York 79 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, NYC
Maya Wiley, Founder and President of the Center for Social Inclusion, will share her views about opportunities ...
Former Atlantic Philanthropies CEO LaMarche Questions the Power Philanthropy has over Policy
Release Date:
09/25/2014
... been fighting to maintain over improved healthcare and social welfare programs. He also claims that because ...
Ford, OSF and Others Join Forces to Safeguard Internet Liberties
Release Date:
02/05/2015
... get the Internet to live up to its potential as a tool for social justice…. Ford, OSF and Others Join Forces to ...