Brooklyn Community Foundation Invests $2.5M in Youth Initiatives for 2017
Release Date:
12/14/2017
... courageous, and creative, despite systemic conditions that make them some of the most vulnerable young people in our ...
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Report Funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Finds That California Traffic Fines Prey on Poor
Release Date:
01/08/2018
A recent report by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, found that Bay Area sheriffs were four to 16 times more likely to book African Americans and Latinos into...
Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid
Release Date:
01/09/2018
... And we showed we can actually use the structure to make a drug-like compound with better properties than current ...
Supported By The Prudential Foundation, the National Fund For Workforce Solutions Selects Four Cities to Participate in Job Quality Initiative
Release Date:
01/19/2018
The National Fund announced that it is awarding $400,000 in grants to workforce collaboratives in Boston, Atlanta, Dallas and Hartford to advance job quality strategies in the healthcare, construction, manufacturing and hospitality industries. The...
New Menino Survey of Mayors, Supported By Citi and The Rockefeller Foundation Reveals Top Issues for Mayors
Release Date:
01/23/2018
... with a national audience. It gives mayors a voice to make our needs heard and highlights the importance we place ...
Bank of America Announces 2018 Museums on Us® Program
Release Date:
01/24/2018
... cities in 35 states. “Our Museums on Us program aims to make a direct impact by rewarding our cardholders with a ...
Carnegie Corporation Funds Report Revealing 4 Actions to Improve the Future of Higher Education
Release Date:
02/07/2018
Following four national priorities, including increasing completion rates and strengthening the student educational experience, could exponentially improve the future of higher education, according to a report based on two years of research.
Tell Them We Are Rising: A Documentary Film Breaks New Ground, Andrew W. Mellon Program Associate Emma Taati Interviews Director Stanley Nelson
Release Date:
02/13/2018
In his new film, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities , director Stanley Nelson presents the first and only multi-platform feature documentary project that explores the historical, current, and future place of HBCUs...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces the 2018 Sloan Research Fellows
Release Date:
02/15/2018
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announces the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as the recipients of the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships. The fellowships, awarded yearly since 1955, honor early-career scholars whose...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Selects Top 35 Innovative Urban Ideas as Finalists in 2018 Mayors Challenge
Release Date:
02/21/2018
... a great opportunity for the cities to test their ideas and make them even more innovative and effective.” Today’s ...
F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments
Release Date:
02/26/2018
... just wasn't true anymore. So we looked at how we could make a difference and decided one thing would be to align all .....
New Documentary Supported by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Highlights the Unseen Side of Silicon Valley
Release Date:
03/14/2018
... talks to some of the most prominent innovators who helped make the region what it is today, and to the tech ...
Rauch Foundation & Newsday Media Group Announce New Research Entity at Newsday
Release Date:
04/13/2018
... website ( www.longislandindex.org ) will continue to make available the data that it has previously compiled and ...
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Seeks to Do Things Differently
Release Date:
04/13/2018
From the start, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation sought to do things differently. Its mission, which Carson calls a “radical departure” from the way other community foundations operate, is emblazoned on the wall right outside of Carson’s...
Mac Aids Fund Lends Its Support to Some of the Most Beautiful Moments in Angels in America
Release Date:
04/17/2018
... “I was in the process of applying the face, trying to make myself feel better,” he says. “I swiped the new fall ...
Silicon Valley Community Foundation Statement on Allegations of Workplace Misconduct
Release Date:
04/19/2018
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a values-driven organization, built on the contributions and the selfless efforts of our entire network. Of the core values at SVCF, accountability and transparency have helped our organization grow to where it...
Michael Bloomberg Donates $4.5M to U.N.Climate Body After U.S. Cuts
Release Date:
04/23/2018
... Nations body that oversees climate change negotiations to make up the shortfall in the agency's budget caused by U.S. .....
Newman's Own Foundation Announces New Class of Fellows
Release Date:
06/06/2018
Newman's Own Foundation welcomes a new class of Fellows, as it enters the fourth year of its Fellowship Program. There will be 14 new Fellows starting the program, as 17 Fellows graduate today.
Atlantic Philanthropies Shares Its Top Ten Lessons Learned in Hindsight
Release Date:
06/19/2018
... of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” It’s in that spirit — and out ...
Weinberg Foundation Announces Darius Graham as New Program Director
Release Date:
06/20/2018
The Weinberg Foundation welcomes Darius Graham as the Foundation’s newest program director. Graham will be responsible for refining and communicating the Foundation's place-based philanthropic strategy for Baltimore, working across sectors to...