foundations

ArtsLab, which works to strengthen small Minnesota arts organizations' leadership and strategy development, will launch a two-year peer-learning community designed to promote shared learning and bolster the infrastructures of sixteen organizations....

Open Society Foundations founder George Soros has announced plans to open an office in Myanmar (also known as Burma) to support his philanthropic efforts there....

The foundations have joined more than a hundred and fifty cities, counties, and towns across the country working to address the underlying issues preventing children, especially those from low-income families, from reading at grade level....

With the help of 817 foundations and 10,000 individuals, families, and businesses countrywide, 499 Central Ohio nonprofits received gift totals of up to $381,900 during the region's first one-day philanthropic giving initiative on November 10....

According to Key Facts on Mission Investing, one in seven foundations direct their assets to market-rate mission-related investments or below-market-rate program-related investments....

The grant will help the coalition generate more diverse and inclusive foundation leadership, strengthen the work of diverse donors, develop new policies and practices for foundations, and track philanthropy's progress with respect to diversity....

In conjunction with its launch, ArtPlace has announced grants totaling $11.5 million to thirty-four projects in cities across the country that have developed a new model to help towns and cities thrive....

More than sixty U.S. foundations that award close to $2.5 billion a year in grants to charities have committed to allocating at least 50 percent of their grant dollars to addressing the needs of marginalized groups such as the poor and elderly....

Sponsored by eight U.S.-based foundations, the AGree initiative aims to spur discussion and consideration of solutions to global food and agriculture problems across multiple sectors....

The gifts from Steve and Sue Mandel and the Broad, Arnold, and Robertson foundations will support in perpetuity Teach for America's efforts to recruit recent college graduates to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools....