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Bloomberg, U.S. Commerce Department To Host 2nd U.S.-Africa Business Forum In NYC
Release Date:
01/28/2016
... Commerce Department To Host 2nd U.S.-Africa Business Forum In NYC During the week of September 19, 2016, on the ... United States and Africa. As President Obama reiterated in Ethiopia last summer, “Africa’s...
Open Society Foundations Support Smallholder Farmers Facing Climate Risk
Release Date:
05/13/2020
... Risk NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations are investing in an effort to help smallholder farmers survive severe ... $10 million to the InsuResilience Investment Fund—which in turn invests in...
17
Jul
2024
Interested in Working in Philanthropy?
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 -
10:00am to 11:30am
... group informational interviews to explore career paths in the philanthropic sector , as part of our " Interested in Working at a Foundation " series. This year, we will learn .....
The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and the Foundation Center Partner to Share Knowledge on Foundations Spending Down
Release Date:
09/23/2013
... its endowment by 2016. Decision makers across the social sector will benefit from the first-hand knowledge and ...
Citi Lets Viewers Vote With a Click for a Sports Group
Release Date:
02/09/2014
... gives a boost to sports-related causes. ESTEEM for banks in the wake of the financial crisis is in the doldrums, with Americans rating the reputation of the ... according to a 2013 Reputation Institute study...
Impact Investing: Not Just For Billionaires
Release Date:
06/04/2014
... correct? Not necessarily. Grants are becoming one option in a more complex menu of financial tools for the social sector . Judith Rodin, president of Rockefeller Foundation, is ... for bigger impact long term...
New York Foundation’s Mottola Questions the Need for Celebrity Speakers at Philanthropic Conferences
Release Date:
09/19/2014
... is going to be the keynote speaker at the Independent Sector conference in Seattle? I've been on conference planning committees and I ... to give him the spotlight at this particular point in...
TCC Group Exlpores a New Approach to Capacity Building
Release Date:
02/03/2015
... ways of seeing. Consider the term "capacity building." In the social sector , it has been lifted up as a panacea and mocked as a .....
White House Debuts $240 Million in New STEM Commitments
Release Date:
03/24/2015
White House Debuts $240 Million in New STEM Commitments President Obama debuted more than $240 million in new STEM commitments this week at the fifth annual White House Science Fair. The new private sector...
Weinberg Foundation Launches Workforce Leadership Academy in Baltimore
Release Date:
06/08/2015
Weinberg Foundation Launches Workforce Leadership Academy in Baltimore The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, in partnership with the Aspen Institute, has announced the ... by the Annie E. Casey and Abell...
Google Partners with Rockefeller Foundation to Streamline Nairobi Public Transport
Release Date:
08/27/2015
... noted that this is despite Kenya's semi-formal transport sector . "Nairobi joins more that 2,800 other cities and ... The upgrade that has taken three years to develop was done in collaboration with...
The Source Codes of Foundation Culture
Publication date:
10/2015
... to and impedes efforts to lead productive change in philanthropy. One theme that has arisen time and again is ... of an organization. While culture can be understood in various ways and is hard to pin down, it has a persistent ... bedrock for effective philanthropy, but we have also, as a sector , habitually neglected this important contributor to ...
Bangladeshi Law Student Receives Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Release Date:
04/19/2016
... juniors who show leadership potential and have an interest in government or public sector service. And he’s also one of 30 recipients of the ...
Rockefeller's Judith Rodin is One of Many Women Making Their Mark in Social-Impact Investing
Release Date:
07/27/2016
... Judith Rodin is One of Many Women Making Their Mark in Social-Impact Investing When advisers attend industry ... conferences, they can usually expect to be swimming in a sea of white males, given the...
Jarrett Lucas of Stonewall Community Foundation on Donor- Advised Funds and Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/28/2016
... Donor- Advised Funds and Philanthropy For the first time in a quarter of a century, The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s ... the nation’s top-grossing charities places a financial- sector “donor-advised fund” at...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation President Says Modern Water Infrastructure Is Critical For NJ's Economic Growth
Release Date:
11/07/2016
... of organizations and individuals with a vested interest in upgraded water infrastructure is working on a broad range ... unique public-private collaborative that includes private- sector water utilities,...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Workshop To Further Innovation And Sustainability in New Jersey
Release Date:
12/20/2016
... Supports Workshop To Further Innovation And Sustainability in New Jersey From finding ways to better engage the city’s ... two-day event, planned for January, is being administered in partnership with Creative...
JPMorgan Chase CEO Talks With Bloomberg About $100M Investment in Detroit
Release Date:
01/03/2017
... Chase CEO Talks With Bloomberg About $100M Investment in Detroit The conversation features JPMorgan Chase’s $100 million investment in Detroit’s recovery and why business must play a leading role in...
Ford to Dedicate $1B of Endowment to Mission Related Investments
Release Date:
04/05/2017
... allocation of up to $1 billion of its endowment, phased in over ten years, for mission-related investments ... of two decades, the world of philanthropy has been engaged in an important, sometimes contested,...