Category: Feeds
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Does the Economic Decline of the West and the Rise of China Encourage NGO Crackdown?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Laws restricting foreign funding to domestically operating nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have proliferated in developing countries. This is puzzling because Western powers support the norm that NGOs are critical for democracy and development, recommend governments partner with NGOs, and sometimes use trade sanctions to encourage adherence to this…
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Kiphart Family Foundation awards $25 million for global health center
The gift will establish the Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development and support global health and development research and initiatives…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Ruth Mott Foundation extends Flint-based strategy through 2025
Launched in 2016, the strategy addresses the top four priorities of North Flint residents — youth, public safety, economic opportunity, and neighborhoods…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Report highlights impact of effective principals on student outcomes
An update to a 2004 report, the research review commissioned by the Wallace Foundation draws on more than two hundred studies over twenty years and argues that school leaders are even more important to student success than previously believed and that investments in successful strategies to better prepare and support them often lead to large…
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Sloan Foundation announces 2021 Research Fellowships
A hundred and twenty-eight early-career scientists and scholars in eight disciplines — chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, earth systems science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics — will each receive a grant of $75,000 over two years…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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It’s Time for Philanthropy to Address Its Erasure of AAPI Voices and Perspectives
The post It’s Time for Philanthropy to Address Its Erasure of AAPI Voices and Perspectives appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute announces 2020 Hanna Gray Fellows
Twenty-one early-career scientists will receive up to $1.4 million over eight years to pursue research into some of the greatest challenges in the life sciences…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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REaD Group supports the Trussell Trust in its fundraising efforts
Data-led insight delivers greater understanding of donors to support charity’s growth London, 17 February 2021 – Data and insight company REaD Group has announced that it is working with the Trussell Trust, supporting the good work the charity does through donor and volunteer engagement and fundraising. The Trussell Trust is a charity that works to…
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Yeshiva University receives $10 million for career center
The center, to be renamed the Shevet Glaubach Center for Career Strategy and Professional Development, offers programs in career development as well as mentorship, internships, and job search assistance…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Beyond the Usual Suspects: Supporting Community-Based Nonprofits in a Time of Crisis
The post Beyond the Usual Suspects: Supporting Community-Based Nonprofits in a Time of Crisis appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
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Grassroots INGOs in Africa: Perspectives on What They Are (and Are Not?)
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This research explores philanthropic transfers and exchanges between and among the North and the South, namely, through grassroots international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), which tend to fall outside of the aid industry. The broad research question that frames this study is as follows: How do these organizations, grassroots…
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Justice, accountability are key to peace in Yemen, report finds
Based on dozens of interviews, the report from the Open Society Foundations found that civil society leaders in Yemen agree that the transitional justice process must be focused on the concerns and needs of victims and include mechanisms for truth telling, redress, and mental health support…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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MacArthur Awards $18 million through Safety and Justice Challenge
To drive reform, participating sites incorporate data from, and work with, diverse groups of community members, individuals who work in the justice system, and people with lived experience of the system…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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People in the News (02/14/2021): appointments, promotions, obituaries
The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Do Service Provision NGOs Perform Civil Society Functions? Evidence of NGOs’ Relationship With Democratic Participation
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Scholars have long been interested in the relationship between civil society and democracy. Today, international donors promote civil society in developing countries, and they explicitly define civil society to include nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). It remains an open question, however, whether service provision NGOs in developing countries fulfill…
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Oregon State receives $50 million gift for stadium renovation
Slated to be completed by 2023, the project includes the renovation of the west side of Reser Stadium and construction of university facilities, including an interactive welcome center, new health center facilities, healthcare facilities for OSU faculty and staff, and additional meeting space…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Maurice Turnor Gardner Welcomes Today’s Kids Company Judgment
Private wealth firm successfully represents one of the former trustees LONDON — Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP (MTG), a boutique private wealth law firm, today welcomed Mrs Justice Falk’s judgment handed down for the Kids Company 10 week trial in favour of the defendants; seven of the former charity trustees and CEO Camila Batmanghelidjh. The unusual…
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Newmark Philanthropies commits $15 million to address food insecurity
The commitment will support a three-pronged approach to the issue: ensuring that people have access to food today, tackling the issues that drive hunger so people can feed themselves tomorrow, and working to create a new economic normal in which all Americans are food secure…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Reconciling Theory and Context in Comparative Nonprofit Research
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The article reviews a family of multilevel models that can be used to build general theories of the nonprofit sector that are still sensitive to variations in context. The comparative study of the nonprofit (or nongovernmental) sector presents formidable challenges to social scientists who are attempting to…