Financing the Social Sector
Release Date:
09/15/2014
... Social Sector Despite the huge success of this summer' s ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and various crowd-funding .....
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Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality
Release Date:
10/07/2014
... Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality It' s always hard to pinpoint the role of philanthropy in ... legal across the United States, a trend that yesterday' s Supreme Court decision has...
Collective Impact: From Concept to Reality
Release Date:
11/13/2014
by Pooja Joshi O'Hanlon, Executive Director, The Elmezzi Foundation Recently, funders and practitioners gathered at ... Wellness. Zone 126, started and supported by the Elmezzi Foundation , is focused on...
Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators
Release Date:
12/04/2014
... The Fund for the City of New York and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave the winners an individual prize of $5,000 and $2,500 for their school’ s math or science department.... Sloan Teaching Awards ...
All Investing is Impact Investing
Release Date:
01/12/2015
Denver Post lists Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation as examples of utilizing social impact investing.
Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free
Release Date:
01/16/2015
... systems that could be vulnerable to attack. That’ s why Microsoft is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, ... a non-profit organization funded by the Rockefeller Foundation . “We’ll lead workshops for...
J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants
Release Date:
01/29/2015
... of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation . In 2015 up to ten Prizes will be awarded to U. S .-based individuals or teams addressing our country’ s most pressing needs through...
These Days Everyone Can Be A Communicator…But Is That Enough?
Release Date:
01/12/2012
... or even shoot and upload a video? Many people in charge of foundation and nonprofit communications have taken advantage ... and other work undertaken to advance the foundation ’ s mission. Why...
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Beyond Gender Equity: How Philanthropy is Taking Gender Norms into Account
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3:00pm to 5:00pm
... Ana Oliveira, President & CEO, The New York Women' s Foundation Scyatta A. Wallace, Ph.D., Associate Professor of ... Fund The Funders of Women and Girls The New York Women' s...
OSF and Ford Praised by de Blasio for Internet Accessibility Work
Release Date:
02/12/2015
... Accessibility Wor k Mayor Bill de Blasio spurred foundation leaders Wednesday to invest in projects and ...
Effective Journalism Is Now Part of Our College Completion Mission
Release Date:
03/17/2015
by Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, President and CEO, Edwin Gould Foundation For many years, The Edwin Gould Foundation has ... prizes and a bowler hat for each winner—Edwin Gould’ s signature fedora)...
Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring
Release Date:
03/13/2015
The CDC Foundation has announced a two-year, $14 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to enable the U. S . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco
Release Date:
03/19/2015
... by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , will help low and middle-income countries facing ...
North Star Fund Launches Campaign for NYPD Reform
Release Date:
03/24/2015
... on the left. The North Star Fund, a liberal activist foundation with ties to de Blasio, has launched a campaign to ... in the NYPD — and will hit up many of the mayor’ s top donors for its efforts. The “Let Us...
OSF Weighs in on High Cost of Heroin Overdose Treatment Drug
Release Date:
03/25/2015
The cost of the drug Naloxone has doubled in the last year.
Deeper Than Political Sound Bites on Economic Inequality
Release Date:
04/15/2015
... he agreed to be the moderator for Philanthropy New York’ s 36th Annual Meeting on June 8th (registration will open to ... titled “Enjoying the Low Life?” examining people’ s perceptions of income inequality...
Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced
Release Date:
05/11/2015
... and the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. This year' s prize-winners will each receive $200,000 per year for up to .....
How The Atlantic Philanthropies Changed Lives Through Building
Release Date:
05/18/2015
... or even your nation. Imagine the possibilities. That’ s what this book is about. It’ s about fields of dreams, and about the people who were asked ... and till those fields and are part of that change. It’...
Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South
Release Date:
05/29/2015
... Fight AIDS in the Deep South With backing from the Ford Foundation , AIDS United awarded $1 million in grants to ...
Ford and RBF Lead Charge to Publicize Diversity Data
Release Date:
07/01/2015
Six major foundations have called on their peers to share the racial and gender make-up of their boards and staff.