George Soros, Mastercard to Partner to Aid Migrants, Refugees
Release Date:
01/19/2017
... said that despite billions of dollars of humanitarian and development assistance, millions of people remain ...
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Rockefeller Supports Training Workshops on Impact Investing in Ghana and South Africa
Release Date:
03/03/2017
... a combination of strategic grant making and industry development – is steadily gaining attention and ...
Paula Luff Named New Director of Sustainability & Impact at the Inherent Group
Release Date:
03/07/2017
... is a Senior Associate with the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International ...
NYS Health Foundation Launches ‘Health Reform Watch’
Release Date:
03/17/2017
The health care landscape is changing rapidly in 2017. As Congress sets out to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the implications for health care across the country and here in New York State could be profound.
The Tow Foundation Appoints Nadia Alia As The New Director Of Operations
Release Date:
03/28/2017
In this newly created role, Nadia will create and direct the Foundation’s various operating systems. She will also develop and implement the Foundation’s internal activities that enable the Foundation’s current board and next generation family...
Vivian Tseng Promoted to Senior Vice President, Program of The William T. Grant Foundation
Release Date:
03/29/2017
... racial, cultural, and immigration influences on child development , improving youth’s social settings, and ...
Gates Foundation Releases New Virtual Reality Game to Highlight Life-Saving Innovations
Release Date:
04/13/2017
This is the benefactor who built chicken coops inside a Manhattan high-rise, released mosquitoes on an unsuspecting audience, and drank purified poop water—all to make some larger point more memorable.
Commonwealth Fund, NY State Health Foundation, Peterson Center Noted as the Funders Behind the Movement for Open Notes
Release Date:
05/16/2017
Can the simple act of sharing a healthcare provider's notes with a patient improve health outcomes? The OpenNotes movement thinks it can and, today, millions of patients in 37 states have access to notes in their medical records.
NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality
Release Date:
07/19/2017
If a foundation’s mission is to build more healthy partnerships in the world, what better place to start than with their own internal partnerships? For Peter and Jennifer Buffett of the NoVo Foundation, developing their own partnership as a couple...
Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published
Release Date:
07/26/2017
... a child’s life are the most important in terms of brain development . If we want children to start school prepared to ... spending has not caught up with what we know about child development and the explosive...
How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... concentrates its grants on support for education, youth development , and the arts, with a focus on helping ... (10 nonprofits), health (18 nonprofits), and youth development (17 nonprofits)... How Nonprofit...
Open Society Foundations and Bloomberg Philanthropies Noted In Report Released By Foundation Center: Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys
Release Date:
11/01/2017
... dollars), followed by human services (including youth development , 44 percent), and public safety (including legal services, 23 percent). And while program development was the most common support strategy (59...
The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Leading Philanthropists to Announce Co-Impact, A Global Collaborative for Systems Change
Release Date:
11/16/2017
Co-Impact will make large multi-year investments in health, education, and economic opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people around the world
Russell Sage Foundation Trustee Hiro Yoshikawa and Former Visiting Scholar J. Lawrence Aber Win MacArthur Foundation Grant
Release Date:
12/21/2017
... Poverty volumes . Both Yoshikawa and Aber are childhood development experts and co-directors of New York ...
Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid
Release Date:
01/09/2018
... that activates only that receptor, a key step in the development of new pain medications. A release from the ...
Surdna Foundation Announces Over $600,000 in Impact Investing Grants
Release Date:
01/11/2018
... fostering an impact investing ecosystem is critical to the development of this sector.” The key aspect of the ...
Supported By The Prudential Foundation, the National Fund For Workforce Solutions Selects Four Cities to Participate in Job Quality Initiative
Release Date:
01/19/2018
... , will enable local employers to incorporate new skill development strategies and/or business practices that will ...
Announcing the Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Prize
Release Date:
01/25/2018
Announcing the Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Prize The Milbank Memorial Fund has teamed up with AcademyHealth to establish a new annual award that recognizes state and local efforts to advance...
Tell Them We Are Rising: A Documentary Film Breaks New Ground, Andrew W. Mellon Program Associate Emma Taati Interviews Director Stanley Nelson
Release Date:
02/13/2018
... on a fascinating journey starting with the early development of HBCUs and covers their contributions to ... America. Through its support of curricular and faculty development at a select group of HBCUs, The...
NoVo Foundation Announces Three Winners of the Pathways to Freedom Challenge
Release Date:
02/15/2018
The Partnership for Freedom today announced the three winners of its Pathways to Freedom challenge. Atlanta, Chicago, and Minneapolis were selected to participate in a first-of-its-kind anti-trafficking challenge to develop citywide approaches to...