Chinese-Language Resources for Funders Now Available
January 16, 2013 10:23 ET | Foundation Center
NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Thanks to a partnership between the Foundation Center in New York City and the Beijing-based China Foundation Center, 31 guides widely used by grantmakers...
Data Are Transforming Philanthropy and the Social Economy
January 07, 2013 10:08 ET | Foundation Center
NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A GrantCraft publication released today, Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013, written by leading philanthropy scholar Lucy Bernholz, captures...
Foundation Center Aligns With World Bank Institute, Endorses Open Aid Partnership
November 14, 2012 10:00 ET | Foundation Center
NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide, has endorsed the Open Aid Partnership (OAP) and its efforts to...
"Reporting Commitment" Opens Up Grants Data
October 09, 2012 09:51 ET | Foundation Center
NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A group of the largest U.S. foundations have formally committed to release their grant information in a consistent, open, and frequent manner, in an effort...
Foundation Giving Lost Ground to Inflation in 2011
June 07, 2012 09:33 ET | Foundation Center
NEW YORK, June 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Giving by U.S. foundations totaled an estimated $46.9 billion in 2011, surpassing the $46.8 billion pre-recession peak recorded in 2008. Yet, after...
Diminishing Dollars for Social Justice Philanthropy
November 17, 2011 11:02 ET | Foundation Center
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a new report from the Foundation Center, a small but important subset of grantmakers — those who work on issues ranging from human rights...
More Foundations Use Investment Assets to Achieve Their Missions
October 26, 2011 10:40 ET | Foundation Center
Report Provides First-Ever Data on Foundations' Market-Rate Mission-Related Investments NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The number of charitable foundations employing their investment...
New Web Site Helps Donors Meet Global Water Challenges
October 19, 2011 13:51 ET | Foundation Center
NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide, has launched a custom web portal to serve as a hub of information and...
One-Third of Foundations in Europe Actively Support Women and Girls, Landmark Study Shows
May 25, 2011 10:06 ET | Foundation Center
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and NEW YORK, May 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An estimated 37 percent of surveyed European foundations made grants or operated programmes intended to benefit women and girls in...
Foundation Funding for U.S. Indigenous Peoples in Decline
May 03, 2011 11:43 ET | Foundation Center
MINNEAPOLIS, May 3, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over the past decade, U.S. foundation support explicitly benefiting Native Americans declined from 0.5 percent to 0.3 percent of total foundation giving....