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Justine Koch Joins Leon Levy Foundation
Release Date:
05/01/2013
... audit, income and expenses, budgets and analysis while making recommendations regarding investment and ...
Nabila Chowdhury Joins New York State Health Foundation as Program Assistant
Release Date:
12/03/2012
... is responsible for reading incoming grant proposals and making preliminary assessments of their quality, writing, ...
17
Jun
2010
Inaugural Conference on Scaling Social Impact
Thursday, June 17, 2010 -
9:00am to 5:00pm
New York City
A Philanthropy New York COLLABORATIVE EVENT, presented with Growth Philanthropy Network . WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Funders and investors with an interest in education, youth development, poverty alleviation, and health;...
$1 Million Gift Donated To The American College To Establish The Sy Sternberg And Fred Sievert Doctoral Fellowship
Release Date:
02/25/2014
... and Chief Executive Officer of The American College. "We are very thankful to Mr. Sternberg and Mr. Sievert for this ... knowledge of retirement planning and financial decision- making and contributing to...
The Importance of Criticizing Philanthropy
Release Date:
05/12/2014
The Importance of Criticizing Philanthropy, an article featuring the Rockefeller Foundation in The Atlantic.
Arcus to Match Up to $50,000 in Give OUT Day Donations to Russia Freedom Fund
Release Date:
05/12/2014
... Russia Freedom Fund is a U.S. tax-deductible vehicle for making financial contributions in support of the LGBT ... and gender identity. One hundred percent of all donations are paid out as grants. The Fund,...
Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World: A Response
Release Date:
05/23/2014
[Ford Foundation] - President Darren Walker: Strategic philanthropy too often minimizes or ignores complexity because it is difficult to understand and predict.
John A. Hartford Foundation’s Corinne H. Rieder honored by American Geriatrics Society with the David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award
Release Date:
05/20/2014
... of older Americans. Dr. Rieder has been instrumental in making grants and initiating programs that put geriatrics ...
A Coalition to Move de Blasio Along on Bus Rapid Transit
Release Date:
06/09/2014
... in New York City. Now there’s a coalition intent on making sure that as mayor, he follows through. “We came ...
More Details Emerging About Greer's Ouster from Nathan Cummings Foundation
Release Date:
06/10/2014
... to put in place a radical overhaul that will focus grant making on two new priorities—reducing income inequality and ...
NY's Joan Mitchell Foundation Invests $20 Million For New Orleans Arts Center
Release Date:
06/12/2014
By the time it completes work, the foundation will have invested roughly $20 million for an artists' retreat, where promising painters and sculptors from across the country can commune together In New Orleans to hone their skills.
19 States May Be Violating Laws Requiring Them To Assist Consumers With Health Care Choices
Release Date:
06/25/2014
... certified application counselors, and other assisters are tasked under the ACA with helping consumers understand ... basis" to pursue court action to remove restrictions that are impeding people's...
City's Green Cart Initiative Judged An "Extraordinary Success"
Release Date:
07/13/2014
... Initiative Judged An "Extraordinary Success" Evaluators are calling an "extraordinary success" an initiative launched ... shopping at a Green Cart, and 63 percent of customers are "...
New Komen Head Says Organization's Mission is To Save Lives
Release Date:
07/18/2014
The new head of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure says the organization is singly focused these days on its mission of saving lives from breast cancer and the controversy that engulfed the group 2 1/2 years ago when it stopped funding Planned...
Private-Public Partnership Commits $350 Million For Affordable NYC Housing
Release Date:
07/30/2014
... Affordable NYC Housing Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are joining with the city and other banks to provide longtime ... Bill de Blasio said the private capital was critical to making good on his $41 billion plan...
Atlantic Philanthropies Awards €14.7 Million For Dementia Care
Release Date:
08/14/2014
... For Dementia Care The Atlantic Philanthropies is making grants totaling €14.7 million (approximately $20 ... the foundation’s final grants, in Ireland and elsewhere, are targeted at select challenges that...
Atlantic Philanthropies Offers Best Practices For Winding Down
Release Date:
08/13/2014
At the same time the Atlantic Philanthropies is working on giving away all its money, it's taking in a great deal of knowledge that could be helpful to other foundations "considering or already implementing a limited-life strategy."
Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals
Release Date:
09/08/2014
... decisions mostly on their own. Now principals are expected to do their old managerial jobs and oversee instruction, too — what and how students are learning. The Wallace Foundation has offered six urban ...
Rockefeller Foundation Partners with HUD for National Disaster Resilience Competition
Release Date:
09/18/2014
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will award $1 billion to help communities that have been devastated by natural disasters.