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NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Thanks to a partnership between the Foundation Center in New York City and the Beijing-based China Foundation Center, 31 guides widely used by grantmakers...

NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A GrantCraft publication released today, Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013, written by leading philanthropy scholar Lucy Bernholz, captures...

NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide, has endorsed the Open Aid Partnership (OAP) and its efforts to...

NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A group of the largest U.S. foundations have formally committed to release their grant information in a consistent, open, and frequent manner, in an effort...

NEW YORK, June 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Giving by U.S. foundations totaled an estimated $46.9 billion in 2011, surpassing the $46.8 billion pre-recession peak recorded in 2008. Yet, after...

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a new report from the Foundation Center, a small but important subset of grantmakers — those who work on issues ranging from human rights...

Report Provides First-Ever Data on Foundations' Market-Rate Mission-Related Investments NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The number of charitable foundations employing their investment...

NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide, has launched a custom web portal to serve as a hub of information and...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and NEW YORK, May 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An estimated 37 percent of surveyed European foundations made grants or operated programmes intended to benefit women and girls in...

MINNEAPOLIS, May 3, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over the past decade, U.S. foundation support explicitly benefiting Native Americans declined from 0.5 percent to 0.3 percent of total foundation giving....