Duke & Mellon Foundations Sponsor Provocative Dance Work on the Legacy of Confederate Symbolism
Release Date:
11/19/2015
... In 2013, Wideman/Davis Dance was awarded a Map Fund Grant (provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation ...
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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement
Release Date:
12/10/2015
As the non-profit funding sector focuses increasingly on numbers, Jennifer and Peter Buffett, co-directors of the NoVo Foundation, seek to counter that trend. The hyper-focus on measurement ignores what truly motivates people to give away large...
Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida
Release Date:
12/10/2015
A smartphone app might help adolescents and young adults with spina bifida improve their daily self-management skills, which can help prevent skin wounds and other complications, according to a pilot study of the interactive Mobitle Health &...
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Expands SEED Program, Adding 3 Locales in 2016
Release Date:
12/11/2015
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the expansion of its SEED program, which focuses on innovation in arts and culture, into Appalachia, Houston, and Santa Fe in 2016.
Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals
Release Date:
12/15/2015
New research from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University shows an area of the brain - long associated with negative behaviors - can also influence kindness and what might be called charitable giving in humans.
Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)
Release Date:
01/06/2016
The new barriers to economic stability and upward mobility are not trivial. Recent data show that wages are stagnant for a wide swath of earners, annual income volatility has risen markedly since the 1970s, economic mobility varies widely, wealth...
Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)
Release Date:
01/07/2016
... the first national accelerator program and investment fund in the country focused on “civic ventures,” is ...
The Robert Bowne Foundation Spends Down
Release Date:
01/15/2016
For the Robert Bowne Foundation, the loss of over one-third of its funds forced it to consider spending down its remaining assets.
Simons Foundation Study Shows New Insights on Ocean Microoganisms
Release Date:
01/26/2016
... with additional support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Simons Foundation. . . Simons Foundation Study ...
Westchester Community Foundation Names Tara Seeley as New Program Officer
Release Date:
02/02/2016
The Westchester Community Foundation has appointed Tara Seeley as program officer. She was previously a program officer at the Central Indiana Community Foundation.
Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
New research findings may lead to the treatment of blinding eye diseases using a patient’s own corrected cells as replacement tissue.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits
Release Date:
02/11/2016
... generous donors to give over $1 million to our Community Fund last year. Now it’s full steam ahead. The launch ...
Coalition of Women’s Foundations Release Statement Supporting Key Elements of Obama Budget
Release Date:
02/11/2016
Prosperity Together, a nonpartisan coalition of public women’s foundations nationwide, released a statement detailing its support of the investments outlined in President Obama’s Budget to expand opportunity, promote equality and build economic...
Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)
Release Date:
02/18/2016
... Research Council, University College London, the High-Tech Fund of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the Ellison ...
Marsh & McLennan, Tow Foundation Honored Alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda
Release Date:
03/30/2016
Peter J. Beshar, Vice President and General Counsel of Marsh & McLennan and member of the John Jay College Foundation's Board of Trustees, will be honored for his service to the college, along with the Tow Foundation for its work on juvenile and...
JPB Foundation Promotes Betsy Krebs to Vice President, Poverty Program
Release Date:
04/22/2016
As of April 18, 2016, Betsy Krebs has been promoted to Vice President, Poverty at the JPB Foundation.
UHF Medicaid Conference to Focus on Value-Based Payment
Release Date:
05/06/2016
... Christopher F. Koller, president of the Milbank Memorial Fund and former health insurance commissioner for Rhode ...
Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist
Release Date:
08/24/2016
... found that the median private equity or venture capital fund requires more than three investment team members ...
New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... donation to Baton Rouge Area Foundation Flood Relief Fund and $25,000 to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank. ...
HSC Calls for Comments on Fair Labor Standards Act Effects on Nonprofits
Release Date:
11/28/2016
As nonprofits prepare to comply with the new Fair Labor Standards Act rule on exempt employee status, which will take effect on December 1, the State is accepting comments on its own proposed rule, which would set an even higher threshold.