Inside the Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date:
04/15/2015
One of the foundation's main focuses is fighting economic inequality.
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Brooklyn Community Foundation, OSF and New York Foundation Accept National Impact Awards
Release Date:
05/20/2015
The foundations were honored at the Center for Effective Philanthropy conference in San Francisco.
Philanthropists, Lawmakers Behind New Push for College Education in Prison
Release Date:
07/29/2015
Move comes as criminal-justice policies place more emphasis on preparing inmates for life beyond bars.
Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World
Release Date:
08/13/2015
The foundation has donated $500,000 to the GivePower Foundation which provides solar powered lighting to schools.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to Receive National Medal of Arts
Release Date:
09/08/2015
President Obama will present the award in conjunction with the National Humanities Medals.
Rockefeller Foundation Recognizes Pioneers for Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture in Rwanda
Release Date:
10/05/2015
... for smallholders in Rwanda and other developing African countries to escape hunger and poverty and improve their ...
The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times
Release Date:
10/13/2015
For-profit colleges that have been accused of fraud are still receiving U.S. funds.
Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace
Release Date:
10/13/2015
... Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, ...
New York Stem Cell Foundation Expands Offices in New York
Release Date:
12/01/2015
Nonprofit's midtown lease indicates growing strength of biotech industry.
Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign
Release Date:
04/19/2016
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support of United States Artists (USA), a non-profit organization that awards annual $50,000 fellowships to artists around...
Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds
Release Date:
04/28/2016
... hundred emerging social justice leaders from twenty-two countries between 2001 and 2013, with the goal of giving ...
Twenty Cities Advance in Bloomberg Philanthropies' Latin American and Caribbean Mayors Challenge
Release Date:
06/20/2016
... potential to spread. The finalists, hailing from 10 countries , will move forward to compete for a $5 million ...
Staff at Open Society Foundations Just Voted to Join a Union. Is That a Good Thing?
Release Date:
07/22/2016
... like an archipelago than an island, with offices in 37 countries and famously fragmented lines of authority... Staff ...
Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population
Release Date:
08/04/2016
Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population The American Civil Liberties Union is retooling an ambitious, donor-funded effort to reduce incarceration across the country,...
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.
Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row
Release Date:
08/16/2016
Equal Justice Initiative's founder and director, Bryan Stevenson, is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past.
Senior Advisor to Pinkerton Writes Editorial: How Do We Become One Nation?
Release Date:
11/08/2016
... But that does not mean the nation cannot be healed. Other countries roiled by conflict have tackled the issue of ...
Campuses Confront Hostile Acts Against Minorities After Donald Trump’s Election
Release Date:
11/11/2016
Since the election of Donald J. Trump, a series of racially motivated episodes have occurred at schools and colleges across the United States.
Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel
Release Date:
11/29/2016
Gary S. Schiff’s first book, “Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel,” has been selected under a $773,761 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a “great humanities book.”
Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals
Release Date:
12/12/2016
Officials with the foundation say that the five-year program will support dramatic changes to the way principals are trained, specifically in creating partnerships with local colleges and universities to redesign teacher training.