Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... Housing When it comes to bank philanthropy, the biggest story over the past several years is the massive outpouring ...
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Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News
Release Date:
06/28/2017
Combating fake news and bolstering the public’s trust in journalism is the aim of a Vanderbilt research project that was selected to receive a share of a $1 million prize through the Knight Prototype Fund.
Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use
Release Date:
08/10/2017
... with her first data-crammed slide. Ten minutes later, the story goes, Ackman said the board didn’t want to prolong ...
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Kicks Off Next Week, Supported by Capital One Bank, Doris Duke and Gilman Foundations
Release Date:
08/17/2017
City Parks Foundation announced the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, which is New York City's annual salute to the legendary late saxophonist, featuring storied veteran players as well as young jazz musicians,
Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change
Release Date:
08/21/2017
... philanthropist due to his quirky personality, crazy life story , and his and wife Marilyn’s game-changing giving. But ...
Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education
Release Date:
08/23/2017
PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruffwill air its annual special 5-part “Rethinking College” series, profiling five innovative programs designed to make college more affordable and provide non-traditional students the higher education they need to compete...
‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Racism is at play when only 1% of humanitarian relief funds reach national or local organisations responding to earthquakes in Haiti or in Nepal, or fighting Ebola in west Africa, and when only 2% of humanitarian assistance overall goes to those...
Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... joined the organization in 2015. “They will tell that story over and over again, once they grasp the impact of the ...
BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... Index of Nonprofit Board Practices tell a different story . Based on a recent biennial survey, any advances ...
How JPMorgan Chase Is Fueling Detroit’s Revival
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... isn’t this boarded up?” Most of the one- and two- story buildings are clad in drab painted plywood or the ...
Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... readers of the the Upshot, its data site, have absorbed a story of a movement producing clear successes. “A ...
Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... Anymore?” journalist and author Maryn McKenna tells the story of her great uncle who died of a basic infection after ...
J.J. Watt's Hurricane Relief Fundraising Closes at More Than $37 Million
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... for victims of Hurricane Harvey might be the feel-good story of the year in the NFL. After opening up the site whose ...
7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week
Release Date:
09/25/2017
7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week No single story can encapsulate one of the most frenetic and ...
The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy
Release Date:
09/27/2017
The rates hookworm infection found in Lowndes County, AL—one of the poorest counties in the state, three-quarters of whose residents are African-American (as were all of those tested in the study)—have not improved much from levels a century ago.
Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Humanitarian assistance relies on a charity model of providing immediate relief in emergency situations. But once the emergency has passed, other approaches might better deliver services in a market-driven, customer-centric way.
Surdna Foundation Funds Exhibit Mapping 150 Years of Activism in New Orleans
Release Date:
01/05/2018
Points on a large "resistance map" in the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design show the locations of more than 300 rallies, demonstrations and marches across New Orleans.
Listen: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Hosts a Conversation On The Value Of Workplace Diversity
Release Date:
02/28/2018
This conversation about workplace diversity was part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Our Compelling Interests series.
Tribeca Film Institute Announces 2019 Sloan Filmmaker Fund Grantees
Release Date:
04/04/2019
The Tribeca Film Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced the three TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund 2019 grantees, awarding them a total of $150,000.
Philanthropy New York Members Featured Among The 50 Most Influential Philanthropists in New York
Release Date:
02/11/2020
With its storied history of penthouse fundraisers and ballroom galas, New York has long been an epicenter of philanthropy. To this day, funders of all sizes invest countless dollars into shaping the state’s approach to criminal justice, health care...