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| 24.09.2024 | PBS SoCal's Bold Move: Elevating Latino Voices Ahead of the 2024 Election | As the 2024 presidential election looms, PBS SoCal is stepping up to the plate. The station is launching a comprehensive initiative aimed at engaging the Latino electorate, a demographic that holds significant sway in key battleground state... |
| 23.09.2024 | Announcing the First-of-its-Kind Corporate Index that Benchmarks the Reproductive & Maternal Health Benefits Offered by the Largest U.S. Employers | Reproductive and Maternal Health Compass has announced its new RMH@ Work Corporate Index.
The RMH@Work Corporate Index is a new benchmark of the health benefits and policies that impact American workers.
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire... |
| 23.09.2024 | PBS Announces New Election Content Including Debut of Documentary VOCES: LATINO VOTE 2024 Examining Key Issues for the Latino Electorate Premiering Oct. 22 on PBS SoCal | Pictured: VOCES: LATINO VOTE 2024 and PBS key art (Images courtesy of Quiet Pictures and PBS).
Digital Series SOCAL MATTERS Keeps Voters Informed of Regional Issues with Two-Minute Video Updates Covering Vital Election Content from Southern... |
| 10.09.2024 | Philanthropy Takes Center Stage in Hong Kong Amid Global Challenges | In a world where giving often feels like a drop in the ocean, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust is making waves. The fourth Philanthropy for Better Cities (PBC) Forum kicked off on September 9, 2024, in the vibrant West Kowloon Cult... |
| 09.09.2024 | Jockey Club launches Philanthropy for Better Cities Forum 2024, ushering in Hong Kong Philanthropy Week | HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust convened its fourth Philanthropy for Better Cities (PBC) Forum 2024 at West Kowloon Cultural District today (9 September). It ushered in Hong Kong Philanthro... |
| 27.08.2024 | Rockefeller Foundation to Open New Office in Latin America | Announced during event co-hosted by Compaz Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and WWF in Bogotá, Colombia
BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Aug. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rockefeller Foundation announced today that it will open a new Regional Offic... |
| 22.07.2024 | Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Announces Departure in 2025 | Board of Trustees to Search for New President
NEW YORK, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Francisco Cigarroa, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation, announced that president Darren Walker has shared his plans to step down... |
| 10.07.2024 | Ford Foundation earmarks $6.5 million to help ICPC, and others prevent sexual harassment in Nigerian schools, workplace | The Ford Foundation has revealed that for 2024, it earmarked $6.5 million to enable the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(ICPC), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and others, prevent gender-based violen... |
| 12.06.2024 | Ford Foundation Launches New Conversation Series with New York Times Columnist Charles Blow | Ideas at Ford with Charles Blow will feature interviews with leaders sharing their bold visions for the future including sports icon Billie Jean King, Golden Globe Winning Actor Kevin Bacon, The Courage Fund, and more.
NEW YORK, June 12, 20... |
| 18.05.2024 | Honoring Pride Month: A Discussion with Darren Walker | Davis Wright Tremaine Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is proud to present our next event honoring LGBTQ+ Pride Month featuring a conversation with Darren Walker on Monday, June 3 at 12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET. This program is part... |
| 15.05.2024 | Half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle to cover food, housing costs, report finds | Roughly half of frontline warehouse workers at Amazon are having trouble making ends meet, a new report shows. The study comes five years after the online retailer raised minimum hourly wages to $15.
Fifty-three percent of workers said they... |
| 30.04.2024 | 16,000 people with disabilities are in state-operated institutions. This is how experts say health care should change. | Watch the CBS Reports documentary "No Place Like Home" in the video player above.
More than 16,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or IDD, are housed in institutions in the U.S., reports the Residential In... |
| 05.03.2024 | Africa: Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee Delivers Open Lecture | The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) invite students and staff to attend an open lecture with Nobel Laureate Professor Abhiji... |
| 08.08.2023 | Wired: Biden Grants $930 Million In Broadband Federal Funding For Digital Equity | Portrait of smiling African-American father helping son with homework while studying at home, copy ... [+] spacegetty |
| 18.05.2023 | Brief: ADM teams up with Air Protein to help scale novel food production platform | ADM has entered a strategic development agreement with Air Protein, a startup seeking to decouple food production from agricultural land by using carbon dioxide, rather than sugar, to fuel its microbial fermentation platform.
Under the agre... |
| 08.05.2023 | Мейнтейнер на всю жизнь. Даниэль Стенберг, автор curl | В наше время принято менять работу и занятия раз в несколько лет. Для сохранения душевного здоровья. Мало найдётся людей, которые работают над одним проектом всю жизнь, это слишком трудно с психологической точки зрения. Но такие люди есть. ... |
| 24.12.2022 | 20 books on how to build high-performing, inclusive cultures that every business leader should read | Tiffany Jana, diversity, equity, and inclusion strategist, is co-author of the book "Subtle Acts of Exclusion." Tiffany Jana
Many CEOs are focused on diversity and inclusion in 2023, per a Gartner poll of 400 leaders.
Here are sev... |
| 29.11.2022 | Novata Launches Framework to Support ESG Integrated Disclosure Project | These new metrics help promote greater harmonization and consistency of disclosure of key ESG indicators for borrowers in private credit and syndicated loan transactions
Novata, a public benefit corporation and technology platform that prov... |
| 27.09.2022 | Ford Foundation Donates $1.5 Million of Emergency Funding to Puerto Rico | - |
| 25.07.2022 | Open-Source Security: How Digital Infrastructure Is Built on a House of Cards | Open source is free software built collaboratively by a community of developers, often volunteers, for public use. Google, iPhones, the national power grid, surgical operating rooms, baby monitors, and military databases all run on this uni... |
| 07.07.2022 | Apple’s New Lockdown Mode Provides Defence Against Spyware | Apple has launched a new feature called “Lockdown Mode” designed to protect journalists, activists, politicians, and high-profile business people against spyware.
Aside from antivirus software with spyware-blocking features, there aren’t ma... |
| 07.07.2022 | Apple's new 'Lockdown Mode' will offer 'extreme, optional protection' for high-risk users who are the most vulnerable to spyware and hacking | Apple announced a new 'Lockdown Mode' designed to protect users who may be targets of hacking.
The option will be available this fall in the next version of iOS: iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura.
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| 06.07.2022 | Apple to Introduce ‘Lockdown Mode,’ a new Extreme Dimension of Security coming to iPhone, iPad & Mac Operating Systems this Fall
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| 16.02.2022 | Leading Academic Institutions Will Receive More Than $40 Million To Create Centers Challenging Neoliberalism | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of five leading academic institutions that will ... [+] receive a grant to establish a new center on the economy and society. getty |
| 13.01.2022 | Ford crosses $100 billion in market value for the first time | The company's shares, which have more than doubled in value last year, were up 3.7% in afternoon trade after hitting a more than two-decade high earlier.
Ford is now worth more than its century-old rival General Motors, whose market cap sta... |
| 13.01.2022 | Ford crosses $100 bln in market value for the first time | Jan 13 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co's market value breached $100 billion for the first time on Thursday, as more investors bet on the Detroit automaker's electrification strategy.
The company's shares, which have more than doubled in value las... |
| 13.01.2022 | Ford crosses $100 billion in market value for the first time | (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co's market value breached $100 billion for the first time on Thursday, as more investors bet on the Detroit automaker's electrification strategy.
The company's shares, which have more than doubled in value last year,... |
| 29.11.2021 | 18 books on how to build high-performing, inclusive cultures that every business leader should read | Minda Harts, author of ‘The Memo,’ writes on how leaders can better understand and support Black women and women of color in the workplace. Getty Images
Business leaders across the US are having frank conversations about diversity in the wo... |
| 16.11.2021 | Ford Foundation announces five-year, $25 million grant to women-led global worker networks calling for a just economic recovery for the world's 2.1 billion informal workers | NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Ford Foundation announced a five-year, US$25 million grant to sustain and strengthen the global movement calling on governments at all levels to invest in protections for the world's 2.1 bi... |
| 06.11.2021 | Biodiversity and climate crisis—the pivotal role of local and Indigenous people | Global leaders are gathering in Kunming, China, and Glasgow, UK, to address the biodiversity and climate crises. And while there is growing recognition of the interlinkages between the two, a key aspect that has not received enough attentio... |
| 28.09.2021 | Вы используете больше Open Source-софта, чем думаете | Прим. перев.: оригинал этой статьи был опубликован минувшим летом в рамках проекта ReadME. Он создан в GitHub с целью стать своеобразной трибуной для многочисленных Open Source-разработчиков, предоставив им возможность поделиться с широким ... |
| 17.08.2021 | HouseUS Fund Launches with $7.5 Million in Seed Funding from Ford and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations | |
| 28.06.2021 | Ford Foundation Commits $75 Million In New Funding To The US South | |
| 07.04.2021 | Ford Foundation Expands Flagship Build Program to Provide $1 Billion to Hundreds of Organizations | NEW YORK, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ford Foundation announced today the extension of the 2015 Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD) initiative, which had provided $1 billion dollars in flexible funding to social justice organiz... |
| 07.04.2021 | Ford Foundation Expands Flagship Build Program to Provide $1 Billion to Hundreds of Organizations | |
| 01.04.2021 | The Girl Scouts received a $500,000 grant to become an anti-racist organization | Girl Scouts during a Fourth of July parade in San Gabriel, California in 2018. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Girl Scouts of the USA began an anti-racism initiative.
The Ford Foundation donat... |
| 25.03.2021 | Ford Foundation Supports Launch of First Global Fund Addressing Key Issues Facing Black Women | |
| 03.03.2021 | $1.3M in grants go toward making the web’s open-source infrastructure more equitable | Open-source software is at the core of… well, practically everything online. But while much of it is diligently maintained in some ways, in others it doesn’t receive the kind of scrutiny that something so foundational ought to. To that end,... |
| 16.12.2020 | Families and Workers Fund Raises Nearly $30 Million for Workers Hardest Hit by COVID-19 | |
| 01.12.2020 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY
New York Times : Announces Philanthropic Support for the Headway Initiative | The New York Times has raised $4 million to launch Headway, a journalism initiative to investigate global and national challenges. The Ford Foundation ($1.5 million), the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) ($1.5 million) and the William and ... |
| 01.12.2020 | New York Times : Announces Philanthropic Support for the Headway Initiative | The New York Times has raised $4 million to launch Headway, a journalism initiative to investigate global and national challenges. The Ford Foundation ($1.5 million), the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) ($1.5 million) and the William and ... |
| 24.09.2020 | Sixteen Major Donors and Foundations Commit Unprecedented $156 Million to Support Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous Arts Organizations | |
| 30.07.2020 | Donors Seeking To Embrace A Justice Mindset Should Ask Themselves These Important Questions | Philanthropists have the chance to fund real systems change if they fully embrace a justice mindset. ... [+] getty |
| 14.04.2020 | As We Rebuild, Here’s the Part We Can’t Afford to Take Out | I live in New Orleans. In 2005, the aftermath of a once-in-a-century hurricane provided an opportunity to think anew about how to design an education system and rebuild a city.
The current hurricane—the coronavirus—gives us a chance to thin... |
| 07.04.2020 | Famed Stieglitz Collection Returns To Fisk University With Public Display Halted By Coronavirus Outbreak | 'Les baigneurs, petite planche (The Bathers, small plate),' by Paul Cézanne (French, 1839 - 1906). ... [+] DATE 1896-1897Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American ... |
| 03.02.2020 | The state of the unions | Sarita Gupta Contributor
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Sarita Gupta is director of Future of Work(ers) at the Ford Foundation.
Imagine that your boss calls you and your co-workers into a meeting and announces that you are all getting raises. But before ... |
| 02.12.2019 | Reinventing the relationship between workers and tech | Rachel Korberg Contributor
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Rachel Korberg is a program officer with the Ford Foundation’s Future of Work(ers) initiative, which seeks to build a more just and inclusive future for workers in our rapidly changing economy.
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| 04.09.2019 | Accion Venture Lab to invest at least $4.5m in African fintechs with new fund | Accion Venture Lab, the seed investment initiative of US-based non-profit Accion, has launched a new $23-million fund aimed at fintech startups that focus on financial inclusion.
The seed investment initiative announced the launch of the ne... |
| 04.09.2019 | Accion Venture Lab to invest at least $4.5m in African fintechs with new fund | Accion Venture Lab, the seed investment initiative of US-based non-profit Accion, has launched a new $23-million fund aimed at fintech startups that focus on financial inclusion.
The seed investment initiative announced the launch of the n... |
| 03.09.2019 | Accion Venture Lab launches $23M inclusive fintech startup fund | Accion Venture Lab — the seed-stage investment arm of nonprofit Accion — has raised $23 million for a new inclusive fintech startup fund.
The Accion Venture Lab Limited Partnership, as it’s called, will make seed-stage investments in inclus... |
| 07.01.2019 | Open source monetization startup Tidelift raises $25m series B | The curse of open source software is that it is used in pretty much every application and device on the planet, and yet, has pretty much no business model. Sustaining open source is a critical problem for the future of software, because wit... |
| 22.08.2018 | Solving the Tech Deficit on Capitol Hill: A Call for Applications | Anyone who saw Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress in April witnessed first-hand what I experienced for six years as a congressional staffer: the Senate and the House of Representatives aren’t up to the task of understa... |
| 23.06.2018 | Open source sustainability | Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the modern internet economy. In exchange, the... |
| 16.02.2017 | Lagos to host the first ever United Nation’s SDG Hackathon in March | Share this article:
In September 2015, the 193 member-countries of the United Nations (UN), adopted a 15-year plan to end global challenges such as poverty, insecurity, and inequality and also to ensure prosperity for all by 2030. The UN ca... |
| 30.03.2015 | Does civic tech have a funding problem? | There are several opinions on what innovation is and how it should be applied by all actors of society, including government, business, academia, nonprofits, you name it. But in general, innovation does not happen overnight, it takes many i... |
| 23.06.2014 | The Knight News Challenge Awards $3.4M to Projects Creating a Free & Open Internet | Image via Garry Knight/Knight Foundation
The Knight Foundation awarded $3.4 million on Monday to 19 projects aimed at making the Internet free and accessible to the masses. From a platform helping journalists quickly verify the accuracy of ... |
| 06.11.2009 | Ford does the unthinkable, announces the $650 car | http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FSHITTY_FORD_ARTICLE_10_29.jpg&videoid=98976&title=Ford%20Unveils%20New%20Car%20For%2... |
| - | Ford crosses $100 billion in market value for the first time | (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co's market value breached $100 billion for the first time on Thursday, as more investors bet on the Detroit automaker's electrification strategy.
The company's shares, which have more than doubled in value last year,... |
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| - | Ford crosses US$100 billion in market value for the first time | Ford Motor's market value breached US$100 billion for the first time on Thursday, as more investors bet on the Detroit automaker's electrification strategy.
The company's shares, which have more than doubled in value last year, were up 3.7 ... |
| - | RightsCon: evento no Rio sobre direitos humanos e tecnologia vai pré-lançar documentário colaborativo "Freenet?" | Acesso a infra-estrutura e conteúdo; abertura; privacidade; liberdade de expressão na web; desenvolvimento. Estes são alguns dos temas que serão debatidos no Rio de Janeiro em 31 de maio e 1 de junho, durante a Human Rights & Technology... |
| - | Apple's new 'Lockdown Mode' will offer 'extreme, optional protection' for high-risk users who are the most vulnerable to spyware and hacking | Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo/Reuters
Apple announced a new 'Lockdown Mode' designed to protect users who may be targets of hacking.
The option will be available this fall in the next version of iOS: iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventur... |
| - | Apple to tackle the cybersurveillance industry with new Lockdown mode | Image: DenPhoto/Adobe Stock
Apple has announced an expansion to its security arsenal with a new feature called Lockdown Mode, which will be introduced officially this fall with iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura.
This optional feature will... |
| - | ESG without returns is ‘simply not sustainable,’ says investor Lauren Taylor Wolfe | ESG and sustainable investing generally have come under fire recently, with critics pointing to a lack of transparency and differing definitions sparking confusion around what investors are actually buying.
Adding to the confusion is the br... |
