Philanthropy 101: Re-Thinking Power Beyond the Grantmaking Role
Release Date:
02/14/2017
... new to the philanthropic sector represented in the room ( operations , communications, finance, human resources, ...
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A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others
Release Date:
05/23/2017
... addressing things like teenage homeless, or urban farming operations . There’s Finnegan’s, a brewery in Minneapolis ...
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair
Release Date:
06/02/2017
... governance and investment management to grantmaking and operations . Over the course of the next three years, the ...
Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/01/2017
Sometimes it’s the smaller foundations that take on the most audacious goals. One example of such a funder is the Overbrook Foundation, which has worked during the past few years to improve an underperforming U.S. environmental movement.
Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint
Release Date:
08/08/2017
After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with...
Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines
Release Date:
08/10/2017
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, which operates as an independent subsidiary of Mastercard, focuses on the application of data to a range of issues for social benefit.
Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion
Release Date:
08/21/2017
... is utilizing resources and expertise from across its operations to address income inequality "through the lens of .....
Unemployment’s Steady Fall Could Signal Trouble—or a Broader Structural Shift
Release Date:
08/28/2017
Jobless rate has been below the ‘natural’ level for four months now, with no obvious sign of inflation.
At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... nation’s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy operations . The charitable grant-making arm of the internet ...
No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes
Release Date:
08/29/2017
It promised a new way of bike riding in New York City — GPS-tracked smart bikes that would rent for as little as $1 and did not have to be picked up or returned to fixed locations.
The New York Times Is Looking for Nonprofit Funding. Will It Succeed Where Others Have Failed?
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... in its paid digital subscribers — it has more than 2 million digital-only subscribers, in addition to 1 million ...
Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... on New York City's Roosevelt Island, marking the start of operations there almost seven years after then Mayor Michael .....
In New Memoir, Eva Moskowitz Offers a Look Behind The Curtain At Success Academy — And Tries to Reshape Her Reputation
Release Date:
09/18/2017
For followers of the New York City education wars, Eva Moskowitz’s new book is a juicy political read.
NoVo Foundation Featured in Funder Spotlight
Release Date:
09/20/2017
The NoVo Foundation recently announced its Radical Hope Fund, a multi-year commitment to bold and transformative social justice work across the globe. With a motivation to give social justice leaders ‘room to dream,’ and a desire to support efforts...
LDN Fund Officially Launched
Release Date:
09/22/2017
The Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDN Fund) was launched on 12 September 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.
How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them
Release Date:
09/22/2017
Understanding the different giving habits of Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials.
Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness
Release Date:
09/25/2017
It’s worth wondering what else seeps into public space — not the least of which seems to be a taste for order.
A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... cheap? McDonald’s sells a McDouble burger for less than $ 2 . A rotisserie chicken costs $4.99 at Costco. Government ... including owners of CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations ). Animal agriculture...
Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?
Release Date:
10/02/2017
The fight to compel landlords to return their properties to productive use is by no means a new one, but the discussion has a new urgency given the current severity of the homelessness crisis as well as the ongoing debates regarding the de Blasio...
More Trafficking Victims Turn to Hotline With Pleas for Help
Release Date:
10/02/2017
The tipster's account was grim. A woman had suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung at the hands of a man who for nine years had been forcing her into prostitution.