Foundation Presidents Defend Donor-Advised Funds—Is That the Best They Can Do?
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... limit on how long funds could remain in a donor-advised fund before they would be automatically disbursed to ...
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Cuomo Says Special Session Might Be Necessary to Allocate Public Hospital Funding
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state would be holding onto federal funding that helps offset uncompensated care until it can determine an equitable way to distribute the money. Those funds include money that was expected to be distributed last year and...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund
Release Date:
10/27/2017
Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund The JDRF T1D Fund , a venture philanthropy fund focused on developing life-changing approaches to the ...
Citi Foundation Launches RFP for $4.5MM Youth Workforce Fund
Release Date:
04/10/2018
Citi Foundation Launches RFP for $4.5MM Youth Workforce Fund Available for Nonprofits Focused on Connecting Young ... of Pathways to Progress , the $4.5 million competitive Fund will award one-year grants of up to...
Bloomberg Charity Scrutinized By India For Anti-Tobacco Funding, Lobbying
Release Date:
08/29/2017
India has been investigating how Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, funds local non-profit groups for anti-tobacco lobbying, government documents show, making it the latest foreign non-government organization to come...
Rockfeller Brothers Fund Weighs in on Motivation for Fossil Fuel Divestment
Release Date:
05/18/2015
Rockfeller Brothers Fund Weighs in on Motivation for Fossil Fuel Divestment ... Dorsey said, a big reason for divestment for the Wallace fund and 67 other charitable endowments, particularly those ... vice...
Rockefeller Family Fund Divests from Fossil Fuels and Exxon
Release Date:
03/24/2016
Rockefeller Family Fund Divests from Fossil Fuels and Exxon In a letter posted on its website, the Rockefeller Family Fund announced on Wednesday that it would divest from fossil ... Thus, by some lights, the...
Salesforce Launches $50 Million Impact Fund to Invest in Social Change Startup
Release Date:
10/05/2017
Salesforce Launches $50 Million Impact Fund to Invest in Social Change Startup Salesforce continues ... position in tech and its dedication to social change to fund startups with social impact at their core...
The J.M. Kaplan Fund Announces 2017 J.M.K. Innovation Prize Winners
Release Date:
11/17/2017
The J.M. Kaplan Fund Announces 2017 J.M.K. Innovation Prize Winners Early this year, The J.M. Kaplan Fund put out a call to anyone in the United States with a promising solution to a social problem. The J.M...
Funded by Mellon Foundation, Emerging Architectural Historians Win Awards
Release Date:
08/30/2016
The Society of Architectural Historians grants support authors of forthcoming books on Ottoman railways, colonialism, and the luxury goods market.
Staying the Course: Reflections on 40 Years of Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Release Date:
05/13/2015
... on 40 Years of Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund William S. Moody joined the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in 1968, and for the next four decades he helped shape the fund 's...
How the Art For Justice Fund Hopes to Reduce Mass Incarceration
Release Date:
08/16/2018
How the Art For Justice Fund Hopes to Reduce Mass Incarceration Last year, the Ford ... Agnes Gund launched the $100 million Art for Justice Fund to safely reduce U.S. prison populations. The ... to tackle a...
Sloan Scholar Says Funding will Open Doors in Materials Science Field
Release Date:
11/09/2017
The Sloan Scholars program, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, provides funding for underrepresented students to pursue doctorates in mathematics, science and engineering.
Advocates for LGBT Equality Launch Freedom Fund to Support LGBT Russians
Release Date:
11/26/2013
... have announced the establishment of the Russia Freedom Fund to provide financial support directly to groups working ... based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Fund was created with the support of...
Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools, but Critics Want More
Release Date:
01/25/2016
Mayor Bill de Blasio is dedicating $159 million in the next fiscal year to help beef up budgets at city schools that are currently well below what they should be receiving, but the Brooklyn Borough president says the increase is not enough.
Responding to Crisis/Opportunity: The F.B. Heron Foundation’s Opportunity Fund
Release Date:
03/22/2010
... policies. In response, Heron created an Opportunity Fund to support its grantees as they worked to create and ... Weiler, Heron’s Senior Program Officer, describe the Fund and its work for us. Responding to...
Head of David Rockefeller Fund Aims to Help Small, Overlooked Nonprofits
Release Date:
01/23/2015
Head of David Rockefeller Fund Aims to Help Small, Overlooked Nonprofits As the incoming leader of the David Rockefeller Fund , Lukas Haynes won’t be able to funnel vast amounts of ... and a first-mover," he...
Rita Allen Foundation Funds Study to Understand Rejection of Climate Change
Release Date:
04/27/2016
Climate Central, a Palmer Square-based nonprofit group devoted to studying climate change, has joined several other scientific groups in a study that seeks to understand why many members of the public reject the findings of the scientific community...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Reframes its Global Democratic Practice Grantmaking Portfolio
Release Date:
04/25/2017
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Reframes its Global Democratic Practice Grantmaking Portfolio In 2016, the Fund commissioned an independent evaluation of six years of ... substantive areas of concern... Rockefeller...
Listen: An Interview with Lukas Haynes, Executive Director of The David Rockefeller Fund
Release Date:
04/06/2018
... Lukas Haynes, Executive Director of the David Rockefeller Fund Lukas Hayne's talks about The David Rockefeller Fund multi-generational stewardship and its program approach ... Lukas Haynes, Executive...