A Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for the National Priorities Project
Release Date:
02/28/2014
The National Priorities Project, a Rockefeller Brothers Fund grantee, has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace ...
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Why Women and Girls?
Release Date:
03/27/2014
... group and several individual member organizations that fund locally and internationally in this area. In choosing a ...
Service Through Philanthropy Dr. Starita Boyce Ansari
Release Date:
04/15/2014
... in the areas of philanthropy, strategic planning, fund development, and program design and evaluation. She is ...
Cost of Health Care a Burden for Most U.S. Households
Release Date:
04/15/2014
A new study published by the Milbank Memorial Fund 's Milbank Quarterly finds the cost of health care to be .....
Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s
Release Date:
05/17/2014
Cathy Schoe of Commonwealth Fund quoted in New York Times article on doctor's salaries. .....
Learning Forward Launches Free, Online Learning Guide to Enrich Principal Preparation Programs
Release Date:
05/06/2014
“The Principal Story Learning Guide” – based on PBS documentary and more than a decade of research, commissioned by The Wallace Foundation.
Searching for the Next Breakthrough in Health Care
Release Date:
05/05/2014
The Commonwealth Fund launches the Breakthrough Health Care Opportunities ...
Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions
Release Date:
06/03/2014
... with a focus on working with art objects. The grants will fund the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chicago Objects Study ...
Individual Market Insurance Premiums Grew 10 Percent Yearly Prior to Affordable Care Act
Release Date:
06/05/2014
... was enacted (2008-2010), according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The analysis, by Jonathan Gruber of the ...
It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma
Release Date:
06/09/2014
... David Blumenthal, president and CEO of the Commonwealth Fund , says that the United States needs "creative new .....
Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal
Release Date:
06/13/2014
An article in Inside Philanthropy singles out the Mertz Gilmore Foundation for championing climate change solutions, especially efforts to reduce the use of coal, the country’s biggest source of global warming pollution.
Heintz and Wayne Pay Tribute To Richard Rockefeller Who Died in Plane Crash
Release Date:
06/20/2014
... Who Died in Plane Crash Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz and Chair Valerie Rockefeller ...
Tart, Goodwin Win Carnegie Writing Awards
Release Date:
06/30/2014
Under a program funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Donna Tartt won an award for fiction and Doris Kearns Goodwin won for nonfiction.
More Technology Investment Needed To Boost Outcomes of Social Change Groups
Release Date:
07/25/2014
... U.S. Democracy Program and the Special Opportunities Fund ; Berta Colón and Michele Lord, co-directors of Public ...
Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal
Release Date:
08/14/2014
Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor of Mathematics and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a longtime associate of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, has received the Chern Medal, one of the world’s most prestigious...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $45 Million for City Halls to Tackle Urban Issues
Release Date:
08/20/2014
Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a new $45 million investment to boost the capacity of city halls to use innovation to tackle major challenges and improve urban life.
Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane, President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, Dies at 91
Release Date:
08/27/2014
Philanthropist and civic leader Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane passed away on August 24, 2014. Sloane was President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children.
Wallace Foundation Announces $40 Million Initiative to Help Build Audiences in the Arts
Release Date:
10/02/2014
The six-year initiative will provide funding for up to 24 nonprofits organizations.
Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality
Release Date:
10/07/2014
Arcus Foundation and Ford Foundation have been featured as two of the top eight funders who made marriage equality happen.
ASPCA Provides More than $9.1 Million in Grants through 3Q 2014
Release Date:
10/31/2014
... following two distinctive initiatives: Lil BUB’s BIG Fund for the ASPCA, a unique collaboration between the ASPCA ...