News about grants, gifts The Alzheimer's Foundation of America awarded a $5,000 grant to help the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University fund their Reflections program, which provides "engaging and interactive museum tours to individuals living with dementia and...
12.9.19 NC News
News about grants, gifts The Winston-Salem Foundation commemorated the Foundation's establishment 100 years ago with a $125,000 grant to "create sustainable pollinator gardens at Quarry Park." The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation awarded a one-year grant of $250,000 to...
12.2.19 US News
News about grants, gifts The College Futures Foundation awarded a two-year $410,000 grant to support the California State University’s Young Males of Color Consortium to improve degree completion for male students of color at five CSU campuses. Handsome Brook Farm...
Club Nova: Providing Entry to Community
This article originally ran in November 2017. Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Karen Kincaid Dunn “With Club Nova as a part of my life, I have not needed hospitalization for 12 years. I no longer feel caught in a raging storm of being cast out or apart...
Finding Good Information
By Sandy Cyr In mental health, and medicine in general, dissemination of good information is an ongoing challenge. Technology gives us vehicles to easily share information, but the problem lies in making sure that people are receiving valid information. This is an...
12.2.19 NC News
News about grants, gifts Wells Fargo will award $225,000 in grants to support communities affected by Hurricane Dorian in Northeastern North Carolina. The donations are part of the $750,000 in donations announced by the company in September. A $1 million grant from...
11.25.19 NC News
News about grants, gifts The Pamlico County Community Foundation awarded $1,400 in local grants to the Community Coalition Against Family Violence and the Girls on the Run, with each organization receiving $700. The SECU Foundation will provide a $1.5 million...
11.25.19 US News
News about grants, gifts The Otto Bremer Trust distributed $12,855,616 in grants and program-related investments as part of its most recent grantmaking cycle. Richard and Melanie Lundquist made a $5 million gift to AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles to advance ocean...
Board Diversity as a Social Change Agent – Part 1: How It Works
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Jeb Banner, Boardable CEO This is the first in a two-part series from Jeb Banner about board diversity. “Board diversity” is one of those buzz words you hear regularly in nonprofit circles. We all know the general reasons...
How Mission Can Drive a Leader in the Day to Day
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Darya Bontempo and Henry Carlson As a land-grant university, NC State is committed to providing students hands-on, highly-engaged learning opportunities AND to providing research that is of direct, practical use to the...