DeKalb County Community Foundation Launches Collective Impact Effort
Foundation: DeKalb County Community Foundation
The DeKalb County Community Foundation spearheads initiative that involves asking local officials and residents to contribute in what they refer to as a collective impact effort. The initiative is...more

Combining Philanthropy, Local Government to Address Vital Community Issues
Philanthropy, businesses, civic society and the local government band together to address important community issues like poverty, unemployment, blighted neighborhoods, health, and safety. Newark...more

Bank Of America Presents Over $1.1 Million To Connecticut Nonprofits
Foundation: Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Bank of America Charitable Foundation has furnished 379,000 in grants to Connecticut nonprofits that focus on hunger and shelter, and promote long-term financial wellbeing. An additional $728,000...more

Baltimore Mayor Announces Constellation Investment for Sustainability Programs
Foundation: Baltimore Community Foundation
Mayor Rawlings-Blake announces that Constellation is entrusting a supplementary $450,000 for the Baltimore Energy Challenge (BEC) and City Schools Sustainability Challenge (CSSC) programs. Overall,...more

Githae: Kenyans Should Pay Tax
As he watched his predecessors at the Treasury targeting the oil industry as the major source of revenue, Finance Minister Njeru Githae decided to fish somewhere else. Since everything in Kenya is...more

Mott Supports Ignite Initiative with a 2011 Grant
Mott helped support the development of the U.S. Ignite Initiative by giving a 2011 grant that amounts to $57,000 to One Economy Corporation in Washington, DC. The White House announced the...more

Dinosaur National Monument Received Funds
The National Park Foundation has awarded a grant in the amount of $7,000 as part of their Impact Grant funding the Dinosaur National Monument. The objective of the grant is to accomplish the...more

Race to Top Funding Awarded to Tennessee
Foundation: Gates Foundation
Tennessee always had an inside track on winning a share of federal Race to the Top funding. The $500 million application from the state and a similar application from Delaware were chosen in the...more

McCune Foundation Presents $330,000 Grants for Social Justice Projects
Foundation: McCune Foundation, Ventura County Community Foundation
The McCune Foundation has granted nearly $330,000 for community organizing and social justice projects in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The foundation\'s goal is to financial services to...more

Philanthropic Leader Judy Belk Elected as President and CEO of The California Wellness Foundation
Foundation: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Surdna Foundation, California Wellness Foundation
Philanthropic leader, Judy Belk, will take a new leadership role as The California Wellness Foundation\'s next president and CEO, effective April 7, 2014. Belk is currently senior vice president...more