Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council
Release Date:
03/21/2016
... M. Tisch, president of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund ; Monique L. Nelson, chair and CEO of UniWorld Group; ...
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NY Women's Foundation and NoVo Foundation Noted for Investments Supporting Women
Release Date:
03/29/2016
As Women's History Month 2016 draws to a close, some might be tempted to think that our work is done – it is not. The work of gender equity continues. NY Women's and Novo foundations are noted for philanthropic investment in programs for women and...
The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation
Release Date:
04/12/2016
The New York Community Trust, the city’s community foundation, has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising projects—from reforming the bail system to developing an arts and leadership program for children on the autism spectrum.
Artists, Investors and Innovators Join Together to Launch Upstart Co-Lab
Release Date:
04/14/2016
Upstart is funded by Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Surdna Foundation with in-kind support from the F.B. Heron Foundation. Upstart is a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Spark Prize to Honor Nonprofit Changemakers
Release Date:
04/20/2016
Up to $600,000 will be awarded to organizations representing excellence and impact of Brooklyn’s nonprofit sector.
Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.
Release Date:
04/25/2016
... 2015 was approved. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has pulled out of scores of companies for being ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Celebrates Latin Filmmakers at Tribeca Film Festival
Release Date:
04/26/2016
... chefs and Tribeca Film Festival Institute Latin America fund grantee films for delectable interpretations. In the ...
Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors
Release Date:
05/11/2016
... Community Trust, the Charles H. Revson Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism... Housing News Coverage ...
Arcus Foundation Report Reveals Trans Discrimination Not Limited to Bathrooms
Release Date:
05/13/2016
A new report reveals transgender women and all women of color frequently face discrimination when using retail changing rooms, compared to other women.
NY Women’s Foundation President and City Council Speaker Announce $20M More for Young Women’s Initiative
Release Date:
05/16/2016
Over 100 recommendations and $20 million to combat gender-based inequality in health, education, ant-violence, economic opportunity and self-sufficiency.
Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services
Release Date:
05/24/2016
The national effort evaluates whether supportive housing could change the trajectory of families facing a number of destabilizing factors that can lead to homelessness, open cases with child welfare agencies and foster care placements.
Carnegie Backs New Learning Pilot Targeting Interstate Passport Initiative
Release Date:
06/10/2016
Six institutions to use Aqua by Taskstream to assess student learning and proficiency as part of a new framework to aid student transfer and improve graduation rates.
With Support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Opera Philadelphia Appoints Rene Orth as Composer-in-Residence
Release Date:
06/17/2016
The three-year program fosters tomorrow’s American operatic masterpieces through personalized creative development and intensive, hands-on composition opportunities for today’s most promising opera composers.
Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building
Release Date:
07/05/2016
Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money.
Robin Hood Issues Call for Applications for New Grant-Ready Insights and Training Project (GRIT)
Release Date:
08/10/2016
GRIT applications, which can be found at www.robinhood.org/grit , are due on August 11.
Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change
Release Date:
09/06/2016
As the globe continues to spin toward a future with higher temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease if farmers do not adapt to new management or technology practices.
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize
Release Date:
09/07/2016
At least five New York based scientists will each be awarded $200,000/year – for up to three years – to enable them to pursue groundbreaking research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking.
Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings
Release Date:
09/29/2016
The aim is to help "change the landscape" of American racial discourse by openly acknowledging a painful past, much as Germany has Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state-sanctioned segregation - apartheid.
Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project
Release Date:
11/18/2016
The New England Foundation for the Arts released a comprehensive evaluation of the National Dance Project- backed by Mellon & Doris Duke Foundations -and new research about current needs of the dance field.
Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change
Release Date:
12/08/2016
For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, investment in renewable energy worldwide surpassed that of fossil fuels last year. That economic transformation leaves John Morton feeling optimistic about the worldwide response to climate change.