Ford's Darren Walker Writes, "Let America Be America Again"
Release Date:
01/06/2017
... at some point, white, brown, black, indigenous, and immigrant . Over the past year, it has become clear that the ...
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Vivian Tseng Promoted to Senior Vice President, Program of The William T. Grant Foundation
Release Date:
03/29/2017
Vivian Tseng has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Program, of the William T. Grant Foundation. In this role, she will work closely with the President and Board to shape the Foundation’s strategic directions.
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Census 2020 - Time to Act - A Webinar Hosted by United Philanthropy Forum
Monday, October 30, 2017 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
"If you underfund the Census, you get an undercount," says Kenneth Prewitt, who directed the bureau during the 2000 Census.
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New York Foster Youth Funders Group – Fall Meeting
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
New York Foster Youth Funders Group is a peer network of grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of foster youth in New York. The purpose of the group is to keep our hand on the pulse of salient issues and initiatives impacting foster...
Peter Peterson, Billionaire and Philanthropist, Dies at 91
Release Date:
03/20/2018
Peter G. Peterson's family says the executive and philanthropist who argued passionately that the U.S. must reduce its national debt has died of natural causes. He was 91 years old.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Publishes Results of Largest Survey of American Mayors
Release Date:
04/05/2018
Bloomberg Philanthropies today released the results of its 2018 American Mayors Survey, the largest and most comprehensive survey of mayors to date.
OSF Leaving Hungary Under Government Pressure
Release Date:
05/15/2018
Under intense political pressure and the threat of legal sanctions, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations said on Tuesday that it had become impossible to work in Hungary, whose prime minister has blamed Mr. Soros for the country’s problems, and...
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats
Release Date:
06/25/2018
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind...
Salesforce Staff Ask CEO to Revisit Ties With Border Agency
Release Date:
06/28/2018
Hundreds of Salesforce.com Inc. employees signed a letter to Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff criticizing the company’s contracts with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, the latest in a series of staff protests at technology firms...
New York Foundation and New York Community Trust Create New Fund Aimed At Supporting A Fair and Accurate Census
Release Date:
07/02/2018
... Concerns have also spurred the formation of a coalition of immigrant , religious, health, social services, business ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces 14 Finalists In The Running For Its 2018 Public Art Challenge
Release Date:
07/18/2018
Proposals Address a Range of Issues from Sustainability to Immigration – Selected Cities Span from Anchorage to Honolulu
Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program
Release Date:
09/05/2018
To support that activism, and help build a pipeline to develop the leaders of Puerto Rico’s future, the Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce the Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships program, open to Puerto Rican youths age 18–27 with proposed...
NoVo Foundation Announce Support for Grassroots Organizations to Address Key Gaps in Local Communities' Responses to Human Trafficking
Release Date:
11/05/2018
Three of the grants were awarded to local nonprofits committed to addressing economic and other social injustices that are at the root of severe exploitation. Each grantee has grassroots community organizing capabilities and the ability to reach...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Increases Investment in Youth Initiatives to $2.8M in 2018
Release Date:
12/14/2018
... York City come from just six Brooklyn neighborhoods. And immigrant families—which account for one third of all New ...
Century Foundation Launches New Public Policy Pop Up Think Tank - Next 100
Release Date:
02/21/2019
Today’s young people are the most diverse, engaged, and progressive generation in history. Whether organizing online, protesting in the streets, or running for office, they are joining together and demanding change on the issues most central to...
Edward W. Hazen Foundation Announces Plans to Spend Down
Release Date:
03/05/2019
... policing, mass incarceration, punitive school discipline, immigrant detention and deportation, [and the] privatization ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation and Alloy Development Collaborate on Better Brooklyn Fund
Release Date:
10/22/2019
Alloy Development’s new building in Dumbo will ask condo owners to make a donation to the Brooklyn Community Foundation and help make decisions about where in the community the money should go.
New York Foundation Welcomes New Program Officer, Zabrina Collazo
Release Date:
10/07/2020
... in the Philippines. Zabrina is the daughter of a Filipina immigrant from Batangas and a Puerto Rican from Brooklyn. She ...
Powerful Networks: Working Across Borders to Reconnect Separated Families
Release Date:
01/20/2021
Powerful Networks: Working Across Borders to Reconnect Separated Families By: Caroline Kronley, President, Tinker Foundation. You probably remember the recording from 2018: leaked audio of a 6-year-old girl from El Salvador crying...
María Teresa Kumar Joins the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Board of Trustees
Release Date:
02/09/2023
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has elected voting rights activist María Teresa Kumar to its board of trustees.