The Roots of Today's Giving Pledge
Release Date:
07/08/2014
... Giving Pledge The Giving Pledge may be vogue today for many wealthy Americans, but as Forbes notes, the idea was ...
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Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane, President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, Dies at 91
Release Date:
08/27/2014
... Under her leadership the foundation provided funding to many of the leading social service programs and cultural ...
Foundations Should Push for Disclosure of Corporate ‘Welfare’ Deals
Release Date:
12/18/2014
... granted in the name of economic development. While many foundations and nonprofits might not think this matters ...
Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Announces Initiative to Address "Invisible Wounds of War"
Release Date:
02/12/2015
... addressing the complex, heart-wrenching issues affecting many of our nation’s heroes. Jonas Center for ...
New York Community Trust Launches 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Competition
Release Date:
03/05/2015
... that recognizes best management practices. “With so many pressing problems in New York and the suburbs, we need ...
Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College
Release Date:
03/16/2015
... and, Ms. Mellow said, aid the college’s students, many of whom are immigrants and come from families that earn ...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Backs Panel to Explore Ways to Keep Women in STEM Fields
Release Date:
03/23/2015
... fields often leave prematurely – and if they stay, many don’t advance as quickly as their male counterparts. ...
North Star Fund Launches Campaign for NYPD Reform
Release Date:
03/24/2015
... to push for changes in the NYPD — and will hit up many of the mayor’s top donors for its efforts. The ...
Close That Gap: William T. Grant Foundation Zeroes in on Inequality and Kids
Release Date:
03/30/2015
... help fuel changes in public policy. Putnam is one of many researchers now grappling with equality of opportunity ...
Rockefeller Foundation Pledges $75 Million for Smart Power India Project
Release Date:
04/16/2015
... agencies and even some not-for-profit organisations and many such systems have come up across the country over the ...
New York Foundation and Brooklyn Community Foundation Lauded for Nimbleness
Release Date:
05/27/2015
The nationwide trend for many nonprofits is to make their mark on just one pressing ...
Bloomberg and Rockefeller Leaders Featured on Crain's List of NYC's Top 50 Most Powerful Women
Release Date:
07/01/2015
... choose—and rank—the 50 women on this list. We weighed many factors, from their job titles and chains of command, to ...
Ms. Foundation for Women Report Calls for Reform in Light of Abuse of Girls in Juvenile System
Release Date:
07/10/2015
... Reform in Light of Abuse of Girls in Juvenile System As many as 80 percent of the girls in some states’ juvenile ...
Aetna Foundation Encourages Using Data to Help Tackle Healthcare Disparities
Release Date:
08/11/2015
... would be prevented each year. Considering that there are many public health, policy, social and economic factors ...
Century Foundation Explores the 'Double Burden' of Poverty
Release Date:
08/12/2015
... than a poor white one to live in a neighborhood where many other families are poor, too, creating what sociologists ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO
Release Date:
10/16/2015
... Now they have one more thing in common, something that many of their peers will no doubt envy: Their organizations ...
Tiffany & Co.’s Costa on Huffington Post: Oceans Face Dire Threats
Release Date:
10/16/2015
... breathe, much of the food we eat, and the inspiration for many of the pleasures we experience in life -- from travel to ...
NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism
Release Date:
11/02/2015
... when donors do give funds, it sometimes comes with too many restrictions on their grantees, a practice he calls ...
Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman
Release Date:
11/05/2015
... a $260,000 payout for the Wall Street firm, the first of many payments that is expected from the investment. . . ...
Several NY Donor Families Among Millionaires Asking for Tax Raise on the Wealthy
Release Date:
03/23/2016
... Saying they were “deeply concerned that too many New Yorkers are struggling economically, and the ...