ArtPlace America Announces $15.2 Million in Grants
The fifty-four grants will support creative placemaking projects that bring new life to rural communities, help communities imagine new futures, activate public spaces, stretch established cultural institutions, and strengthen local economies....
MD Anderson Receives $50 Million for Cancer Research Program
The gift will support the Houston-based cancer center's Moon Shots program, which will involve six teams of MD Anderson researchers and clinicians working on eight different cancers over the next ten years....
Corporations Announce Million-Dollar Commitments to Assist Oklahoma Tornado Victims
In response to an outbreak of devastating tornados that struck Moore and other communities in Oklahoma on Sunday and Monday, several corporations have announced million-dollar commitments to help victims of the violent storms....
India Tightens Rules on Foreign Donations to NGOs
The Indian government has frozen the bank accounts of the Indian Social Action Forum, a network of more than seven hundred NGOs, and issued new regulations aimed at preventing the network's member organizations from receiving foreign donations....
In the latest article in our SSIR series, Duke University's J. Gregory Dees explains how social entrepreneurship, with the right scrutiny and scaling, can get us to an open-solution society....
The executive director of the Environmental Grantmakers Association calls for bridging the gap between environmental activism and efforts to address poverty and inequality....
Technology entrepreneur and foundation chair David Bohnett spoke with PND's Emily Robbins about gun violence in America and what philanthropy can do to help reduce it....
SOS works in more than five hundred communities worldwide to promote children's rights, stable family environ-
On the blog, Ford Foundation president Luis Ubiņas reports on early lessons from the Work Support Strategies initiative; and the weekend crew checks in with another link roundup........
