More Foundations Are Examining the Ethics of Where Their Money Came From
Foundation: Coastal Community Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Weingart Foundation
Grant makers are hiring historians and taking other steps to learn whether their founders harmed people or the environment to get rich and...more

Confluence Philanthropy, Inc. | Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Foundation: Rockefeller Brothers Fund
For advancing climate-related strategies for mission-aligned investment of foundation assets. Special Initiatives and Opportunities....more

How Philanthropy Fuels Polarization
Foundation: Rockefeller Brothers Fund
"It's easy for this to happen because I didn't intentionally look for opposing voices or try to understand what was animating them. I tended to group all those voices together, oversimplify even...more

Foundations commit billions to fight climate change - Portland Press Herald
Foundation: Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation
Global warming is an area many think philanthropy has neglected. By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of PhilanthropyChronicle of...more

As Glasgow Talks Commence, Philanthropic Climate Pledges Near $4 Billion With a Boost ...
Foundation: Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation
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Daily News Wrap-Up: Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs Launch Climate Innovation Fund ...
Foundation: Knight Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, McKnight Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Bloomberg Philanthropies and Goldman Sachs launched the Climate Innovation Fund to support sustainable low-carbon economic development in South...more

Lewis Milford retires from Clean Energy Group, Mullendore to take over
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Oak Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Surdna Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York Community Trust
CEG has worked on technology innovation from fuel cells to offshore wind, ... undertaken for CEG, for the environment, and the future of resiliency,” said CEG ... for resilient power, health,...more

How Can Philanthropy Help Rehabilitate US Democracy?
Foundation: MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Solidago Foundation, Ford Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies
... philanthropic organizations (the independent sector). In this piece, we focus on how philanthropy can repair and rehabilitate our dysfunctional...more

$5 billion foundation started with oil money divests of fossil fuel
Foundation: Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Family Fund, Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation was established as a philanthropic venture in 1913 and remains one of the largest of its kind in the country. ... “John D. Rockefeller's philosophy on philanthropy was...more

Subject: Keeping Up With Digital Demands Challenges Nonprofits
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Kellogg Foundation
Philanthropy experts are opposed to the calls for new rules, saying there are many good reasons for foundations to transfer money to...more