Site Search

Funding Area

The Rockefeller Foundation

Related Organizations

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Among Funders Backing Environmental Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

Release Date:

11/30/2017

... Backing Environmental Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds Philanthropy and environmentalism are generally very white ... influential report as “lackluster.” But there is a set of foundations and nonprofits aware...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Bloomberg Donates $5 Million To Baltimore Police For New Cameras, Technology

Release Date:

12/04/2017

... readers and gunshot detection software to cover 10 miles of East and West Baltimore, city officials said. “Equipping ... they need to fight and solve crime is a critical component of our violence reduction...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

New Report From Silicon Valley Community Foundation Helps Companies Align With the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals

Release Date:

12/11/2017

... Ending inequality in education. These are just some of the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a United Nations ... 10 years, SVCF has helped more than 100 companies leverage ...

Find More By

News type

Corporate Social Responsibility

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors

Release Date:

12/12/2017

Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation ... policy advocate, has joined the Foundation’s Board of Directors. “Maya has dedicated her career to the fields...

Find More By

News type

Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Animal Welfare

LGBTQ

Related Organizations

Arcus Foundation

Arcus Winter Grantees Work for LGBTQ Equality Across the Globe

Release Date:

01/05/2018

... LGBTQ Equality Across the Globe Advocating for the rights of LGBTQ persons across the globe and through a variety of channels is the goal of the grants in the winter Arcus ... of...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Appointments & Transitions

Related Organizations

Arcus Foundation

Ford Foundation Appoints Hilary Pennington as Executive Vice President

Release Date:

01/19/2018

... The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Hilary Pennington as its first executive vice president, a role in which she will oversee all of the foundation's programs in the US and globally...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Appointments & Transitions

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

Ms. Foundation for Women Announced Roz Lee As The New Vice President of Strategy and Programs To Its Staff

Release Date:

01/24/2018

... for Women Announced Roz Lee As The New Vice President of Strategy and Programs To Its Staff Today, the Ms. ... Women announced Roz Lee as the new Vice President of Strategy and Programs to its staff. “I am...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Ms. Foundation for Women

22 Feb 2018

LGBTQ Funders Social Network

Thursday, February 22, 2018 -

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Funders for LGBTQ Issues and Philanthropy New York are partnering to support an informal, local group of philanthropic professionals who are LGBTQ and their funder ... queer, intersex and allies who are staff or...

Find More By

Event type

Format

Audience

Funding Area

Carnegie Corporation Funds Report Revealing 4 Actions to Improve the Future of Higher Education

Release Date:

02/07/2018

... Funds Report Revealing 4 Actions to Improve the Future of Higher Education Following four national priorities, ... experience, could exponentially improve the future of higher education, according to a report...

Find More By

News type

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

Newman’s Own Saved from Major Tax Hit

Release Date:

02/12/2018

... ruin, they said. "Newman’s Own Foundation is a leader in philanthropy and business in Connecticut," said the senators. "The foundation is a significant source of support for communities in our...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Newman's Own Foundation

"Risk Is a Fact of Life." A Conversation with Stephen Heintz of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Release Date:

02/16/2018

"Risk Is a Fact of Life." A Conversation with Stephen Heintz of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Stephen Heintz has led the ... we’re betting on institutions. Let me step back and say, philanthropy...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Related Organizations

Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces Move to 100 Percent Mission-Aligned Investing

Release Date:

03/13/2018

... Foundation announced that they will align 100 percent of their nearly half-billion dollar endowment with their ... and finding solutions to the two most challenging problems of our time – the climate crisis...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Related Organizations

Propel Capital’s Sarah Williams Honored by The Center for Court Innovation

Release Date:

03/19/2018

... benefit celebrating justice reform and the accomplishments of four innovators from a variety of fields. Proceeds from the benefit, which was held at The ... Capital, who have pioneered an innovative approach...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Social Justice

Related Organizations

Propel Capital

Hilton Foundation's Quest to Bring Safe Water to All

Release Date:

04/05/2018

... Foundation's Quest to Bring Safe Water to All How can philanthropy be a vanguard in confronting the life-and-death challenges facing millions of people worldwide in the area of water,...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Andrus Family Fund and Groundswell Fund Amongst Leading LGBTQ Funders

Release Date:

05/07/2018

... on Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ 2016 honor roll. Some of the most significant increases came from the Andrus Family ... In other words, some very big names in liberal philanthropy bumped up their support after...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

LGBTQ

Related Organizations

Andrus Family Fund

Groundswell Fund

Morgan Stanley Foundation Announces Additional Support to Local Food Banks Across the United States

Release Date:

05/17/2018

... meals to children and families. These grants are part of our most recent commitment, bringing our support total to ... to life and access to nutritious food is a vital part of that pledge. “We are proud to...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Food Systems

Related Organizations

Morgan Stanley

Newman's Own Foundation Announces New Class of Fellows

Release Date:

06/06/2018

Newman's Own Foundation Announces New Class of Fellows Newman's Own Foundation welcomes a new class of Fellows, as it enters the fourth year of its Fellowship ... the threshold ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

Newman's Own Foundation

New York Foundation and New York Community Trust Create New Fund Aimed At Supporting A Fair and Accurate Census

Release Date:

07/02/2018

... the trust told New York Nonprofit Media. The collaboration of funders includes the New York Foundation, The New York ... program officer at The New York Community Trust, during Philanthropy New York’s recent...

Find More By

News type

The New York Community Trust

Funding Area

Civic Engagement

Related Organizations

New York Foundation

Long Island Community Foundation

The Westchester Community Foundation

BNY Mellon Partners With Girls' Leadership Initiative on Stem Boot Camp

Release Date:

08/02/2018

... Stem Boot Camp A global leadership development initiative of the United Nations Foundations is partnering with BNY ... and mathematics curriculum and will hold a series of boot camps focused on how STEM can be...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area