Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising
Release Date:
03/20/2015
Study shows that political ads dwarfed stories about political issues by 45:1.
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White House Debuts $240 Million in New STEM Commitments
Release Date:
03/24/2015
Supporters include the Simons Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
ASPCA Responds to Tyson's Move to Ban Antibiotic Use in Chickens
Release Date:
04/29/2015
ASPCA asserts that companies also need to give chickens more room and improve sanitation protocols.
City Will Bring High-Speed Broadband to Digital Deserts in Brooklyn and Queens
Release Date:
07/02/2015
Two providers will offer speeds up to 1 gigabit per second.
Three Important Steps Philanthropies Are Taking to Curb Climate Change
Release Date:
07/29/2015
Bloomberg Philanthropies has contributed $80 Million to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.
Peter G. Peterson Foundation-Sponsored Team Wins Competition
Release Date:
04/12/2016
Up to Us, a non-partisan program sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative University and Net Impact, aims to empower students to raise awareness about the United States’ long-term fiscal and economic health in a...
Ford and #ReasonsforHope Foundations Want You To Know They Make A Difference—Not Just Write Checks
Release Date:
08/10/2016
The #ReasonsForHope campaign is trying to make people understand the powerful work of philanthropic foundations.
Ms. Foundation Is One of the Hosts of Gathering to Advance New Economic Agenda for Women
Release Date:
09/19/2016
Beginning today, more than 1,000 women will gather for a groundbreaking summit to call for a comprehensive economic agenda for women of color and low-income women.
Senior Advisor to Pinkerton Writes Editorial: How Do We Become One Nation?
Release Date:
11/08/2016
How does America come back from the most bitter, nasty and divisive presidential campaign in memory? How do we become one nation?
Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation Writes About the Syrian Civil War and Avoiding Trump’s First Big Mistake
Release Date:
11/21/2016
With President-elect Donald Trump’s chaotic transition underway, the U.S. foreign policy establishment and the international community have begun contemplating the dangerous uncertainties created by this transition and the potential contours of...
Open Society Foundations Announces 2017 Soros Equality Fellows
Release Date:
03/21/2017
The Open Society Foundations is pleased to announce the recipients of the Soros Equality Fellowship, a new initiative to help emerging mid-career professionals become long-term innovative leaders in the field of racial justice.
Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List
Release Date:
03/29/2017
The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, millions of women marched in Washington, D.C., New York City and other cities across the country and around the globe. Provoked by Trump’s controversial rhetoric on the campaign trail, they came...
Gay Rights Group Turns Down Bank of America’s Money Over HB2 Compromise
Release Date:
05/09/2017
The nation’s largest gay rights group plans to reject $325,000 in Bank of America sponsorships to protest the role bank executives played in brokering a replacement for North Carolina’s House Bill 2 - known as "the bathroom bill."
'Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened
Release Date:
08/28/2017
Key players in the Trump administration have advised Mr. Trump to wind down the DACA program, and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has informed him he considers it unconstitutional and cannot defend it in court.
EPA Now Requires Political Aide’s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications
Release Date:
09/05/2017
The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the unusual step of putting a political operative in charge of vetting the hundreds of millions of dollars in grants the EPA distributes annually, assigning final funding decisions to a former Trump...
Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist
Release Date:
09/05/2017
The chief scientist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is typically a low-profile job in any presidential administration. But President Trump's nomination of his former Iowa campaign manager for the post is raising concern in the scientific...
Ms. Foundation to Philanthropy: Grow Local Economies by Supporting Low Wage Workers and Childcare Access
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... up of up 50% women. 2. Support new and innovative campaigns that increase public sector funding for childcare ...
Edith Windsor, LGBTQ Advocate Who Fought The Defense Of Marriage Act, Dies At 88
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Edith Windsor loved Thea Spyer. For nearly half a century, the two were partners and eventually were legally married as well. When Spyer died in 2009, though, the federal government didn't recognize that love on Windsor's tax forms, expecting her to...
As the Clintons Step Back From Global Stage, Bloomberg Steps Up
Release Date:
09/20/2017
After Bill and Hillary Clinton announced the end of their signature conference during last year’s presidential campaign, Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York and billionaire, has stepped unto the breach.
Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... It will also be used to bolster grass-roots women’s campaigns in the developing world. While the money is a tiny ...