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PRESS RELEASE: Echoing Green Announces The Next Generation Of Social Entrepreneurs With Its 2014 Class Of Global, Climate And Black Male Achievement Fellows
NEW YORK, June 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Today Echoing Green announced its 2014 class of Fellows including Global, Black Male Achievement and Climate Fellows.
PRESS RELEASE: The Pershing Square Foundation Makes $516,000 Grant To African Health Care Organization – Last Mile Health
Grant to expand local Frontline Health Workers’ ability to bring basic care to remote communities and integrate best practices with national health policy
Cancer Philanthropy, Wall Street-Style
By Kristina Strain (Inside Philanthropy) – This ain’t your father’s cancer philanthropy. This ain’t some namby-pamby Race for the Cure-style charity outfit or a lumbering legacy foundation. This is cancer philanthropy, Wall Street-style.
PRESS RELEASE: Damon Runyon, Sohn Conference Foundations name 3 new pediatric cancer research fellows
New York, Memphis, Boston scientists receive prestigious awards to tackle cancers in children and young adults New York, NY (June 20, 2014) – The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named three outstanding young scientists as recipients of the prestigious Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Research Fellowship Award,
Can a Magazine Change a Country? One Year Later, an Update on Forbes and Liberia
By Randall Lane (FORBES) – Last June, Forbes convened more than 150 of the world’s greatest philanthropists at the United Nations for the larger purpose of making their giving more effective, as channeled through the prism of global poverty causes.
PRESS RELEASE: Challenged Athletes Foundation Holds Its 8th Annual “A Celebration of Heroes, Heart and Hope” Gala in New York City
Record-Breaking $2.3 Million Raised; Lives Changed SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Notables from Wall Street, the world of sports and broadcast media came together on June 11 in New York City to celebrate inspirational challenged athletes at the 8th Annual “A Celebration of Heroes, Heart and Hope” gala which has now raised more than $10 million
Agassi’s School Partner Aims for $1 Billion With New Firm
By Nadja Brandt and John Gittelsohn (Bloomber Businessweek) – Bobby Turner, who runs a school-construction fund with tennis champion Andre Agassi, has started a new firm seeking to raise as much as $1 billion for charter schools, workforce housing and health-care facilities.
PRESS RELEASE: Robin Hood Donors Raise $60 Million At Annual Benefit, Including $35 Million For American Dream Fund To Help Immigrants Struggling In Poverty
NEW YORK, May 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Last night at its annual benefit at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan, Robin Hood raised $60 million to fight poverty in New York City, including $35 million for the newly launched Robin Hood American Dream Fund,
Robin Hood Donors Raise $60 Million at Annual Gala
CNBC.COM – With a who’s who of bankers and hedge fund titans in attendance, the Robin Hood Foundation’s annual gala raised more than $60 million Monday, cementing its status as New York’s leading charitable event.