Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference
Release Date:
01/18/2017
... participants. Four of the most highly regarded researchers in the country will present innovative ideas related to ...
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MAC AIDS Fund Supports Efforts to Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African-American Women
Release Date:
01/27/2017
... Blout, president of Black Women’s Health Imperative, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. The organization is helping to launch the ... Truvada, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tiffany & Co. Foundation and Others Partner to Launch '50 Reefs' Global Initiative to Protect Critical Ecosystem
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... to Protect Critical Ecosystem Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Australian nonprofit Ocean Agency, and the Global Change Institute...
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens
Release Date:
04/14/2017
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens ... fellowships to support research on fundamental problems in marine microbial ecology. The foundation is particularly...
NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing
Release Date:
04/17/2017
... returns but concrete social returns as well,” as it said in a news release. Earning high returns isn’t just a matter ... rights — endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether...
NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement
Release Date:
04/17/2017
... groups worked with their program participants as partners in making change in their own lives, the organization, and in the surrounding ... a series of conversations with a dozen New York...
Complete This Survey on Foundation Openness and Shared Insights
Release Date:
04/19/2017
... Shared Insight to support foundation openness activities in the form of regional cohorts and dialogues. As part of the ... including a pre-survey of all of the member foundations in the Regional Association...
MetLife Foundation Innovation Competition Recognizes Indian Entrepreneur
Release Date:
05/03/2017
... of the MetLife Foundation Inclusion Plus competition in India. The competition was open to entrepreneurs, ... financial capability and access to financial services in India. With more than 100 entries,...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... employment. But financial giants are also steady funders in an area even closer to home: community development and ... low-income communities through predatory mortgage lending in recent years, and given that...
Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award
Release Date:
07/20/2017
... Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award One in four people in the world is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the ... microfinance institutions, corporations, governments, ...
Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years
Release Date:
08/09/2017
... will be a foundation for a future career. Carpenter is one in an army of social justice change agents that the Baltimore ... city for the last 20 years. He says when he returned home in 1994 from two decades...
Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... as a tool for social change, a group of asset managers and nonprofit leaders is working to spread the practice, and to ... world of philanthropy to share ideas and push advancements in impact investing. The...
Newman's Own Pops The Champagne - Salad Dressing - That Is
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... led Paul Newman to sell his homemade salad dressing in 1982 and give away the profits. Newman’s Own marks its ... Newman’s Own distributed $837,000 to 30 charities in 10 states through the sale of that...
BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry No Kid Hungry, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger, ... initiative raises awareness that one out of every six kids in America is hungry, while...
A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... noticed is that the recipient of those funds was a small nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., called the Center for Disaster ... The center hopes to satisfy the public’s need to help in the...
Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... plan that officials hope will spur more economic diversity in Lower East Side elementary schools. It is the first effort ... basis, and follows years of lobbying by parent advocates in District 1, which also...
City Council Examines Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... and responsiveness to domestic violence victims in the legal system by combining the different courts one might interact with in a domestic violence dispute into a single court, with a ... in...
New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... groups worked with their program participants as partners in making change in their own lives, the organization, and in the surrounding ... a series of conversations with a dozen New York...
Making Kids Into “Makers”
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... skills by building something to address a problem in their community. In many traditional classroom settings, students do not spend ... the executive director of the Imagination Foundation , a ...
A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... at state universities. Prison inmates raise cattle in Kentucky, and they process ground meat and poultry in Florida. What are the costs of all these policies, and what, if any, are the benefits? A new ...