Site Search

Young Men of Color Initiative Details Its Investments

Release Date:

03/03/2015

Young Men of Color Initiative Details Its Investments Member ... Men of Color have collectively awarded millions of dollars in the past year to improve education outcomes,...

Find More By

News type

Topic(s)

Funding Area

The Atlantic Philanthropies

Related Organizations

Open Society Foundations

Vic De Luca Will Retire as President of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Release Date:

03/16/2015

Vic De Luca Will Retire as President of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Vic has committed the ... 25 years to the Foundation, starting as a Program Officer in 1991 and becoming President in...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Health

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Gender Justice

Related Organizations

Molly Schultz Hafid Promoted to Assistant Director of the UU Veatch Program

Release Date:

04/21/2015

Molly Schultz Hafid Promoted to Assistant Director of the UU Veatch Program Senior Program Officer Molly ... leadership within the broader philanthropic sector.” In addition to sharing staff supervision, Ms. Hafid...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock

Related Organizations

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Role of Older Workers in Small Business

Release Date:

04/23/2015

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Role of Older Workers in Small Business A variety of simultaneous trends are ... roles – at work or in their communities –...

Find More By

News type

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Funding Area

Aging

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

Noyes Foundation President Featured in Philanthropy News Digest

Release Date:

06/30/2015

Noyes Foundation President Featured in Philanthropy News Digest Philanthropy News Digest:The ... launched a campaign around the timely distribution of monies from donor-advised funds. Why is the distribution .....

Find More By

News type

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Related Organizations

Two Views on the Failure of Policing

Release Date:

07/16/2015

Two Views on the Failure of Policing Long before Eric Garner was choked to death by ... Staten Island, or Michael Brown was fatally shot by a cop in Ferguson, or Walter Scott was shot in...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Janice O’Connor

Release Date:

10/15/2015

... to announce that Janice O’Connor has joined the Board of Directors. Ms. O’Connor recently retired as ... Director title, she had served as the District Manager for Long Island and Queens. Ms. O’Connor had also...

Find More By

News type

Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

Related Organizations

Dodge Foundation Participates in Discussion of How Arts Organizations Help Drive Downtown Revivals In NJ Cities

Release Date:

10/22/2015

Dodge Foundation Participates in Discussion of How Arts Organizations Help Drive Downtown Revivals In NJ ... on Friday at the NJ Spotlight on Cities conference, a day- long...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Arts

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Related Organizations

Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)

Release Date:

11/12/2015

Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace ... has settled, you know that some affiliates will drop out of the network entirely, leaving fewer recipients able to get ... struggled with...

Find More By

News type

Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

The Wallace Foundation

Robertson Foundation

AT&T Foundation

A New Way Forward: Bringing an Equity Lens to the Work of Reducing the Influence of Money in Our Democracy

Publication date:

12/2015

... local and national reforms. Throughout 2015, they engaged in a process with their partners to take stock of the money in politics and fair courts field, and of their ... relationships towards victory, without losing sight of long -term capacity and infrastructure needs? The report ...

Find More By

Resource type

Report

Funding Area

Economic Security

Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

Related Organizations

Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case

Release Date:

12/11/2015

Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case In an awkward exchange in ... to go to a highly selective college, like the University of Texas, through some...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

Erik Estrada Joins Andrus Family Fund

Release Date:

12/14/2015

... Foundation’s New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) in Camden New Jersey. He has a long history of working with youth and in his most recent role at NJHI ...

Find More By

News type

Children, Youth and Families

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Andrus Family Fund

Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals

Release Date:

12/15/2015

... The amygdala, a small structure at the front end of the brain's temporal lobe, has long been associated with negative behaviors generally, and ... Michael Platt, the James S. Riepe University Professor...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Science

Related Organizations

The Simons Foundation

Aetna Foundation: Closing the Health Divide, One Community at a Time

Release Date:

12/16/2015

... we're faced with today, is the growing health divide in underserved communities. Right here in the United States, ... people who have lower life expectancies than populations of many...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Aetna Foundation

Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)

Release Date:

01/06/2016

Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford ... hardly bears repeating that there has been massive change in the factors that affect US household finances in...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Economic Security

Related Organizations

Citi Foundation

Ford Foundation

Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... biologists have performed the first large-scale screening in a vertebrate animal for genes that regulate sleep, and ... that when overactivated causes severe insomnia. Expression of the gene, neuromedin U (Nmu...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Rita Allen Foundation

Nathan Cummings Urges Firstenergy Shareholders to Vote for Proposal Regarding Disclosure of Lobbying Expenditures

Release Date:

05/06/2016

... Shareholders To Vote For Proposal Regarding Disclosure Of Lobbying Expenditures - Sec Filing Dear FirstEnergy Shareowner: We write to you as long -term shareholders in FirstEnergy Corporation...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

NY Community Trust Teams Up with Muslim-American Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes

Release Date:

08/09/2016

... Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes In the past year, suspected hate crimes and other forms of racial and religious bigotry against Muslim Americans rose ... a community foundation for New York City,...

Find More By

News type

The New York Community Trust

Funding Area

Communications/Media

Related Organizations

President Of Montauk-Based Environmental Advocacy Organization Stepping Down

Release Date:

02/02/2017

President Of Montauk-Based Environmental Advocacy Organization Stepping ... and to work with CCOM's members and Board of Directors in protecting our natural resources." While at CCOM...

Find More By

News type