The Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation awarded $472,007 in grants at its spring meeting.

Some of the grants that we will be following with interest relate to advancing new technologies. Venture Strategies for Health and Development, for example, will be testing of the use of text-messaging to reduce post-partum hemmorage in Zambia. In Israel, the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies will test a low-cost water desalinator that can irrigate crops in very dry areas. Continue Reading »

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

“From our perspective, philanthropic leadership is thriving in America.”

Mary Phillips, President of GMA Foundations invites your reflection on 2011- a year remarkable for both protests of income disparity and innovation in philanthropy.

GMA Foundations Annual Report highlights grantmaking activities, consulting assignments, special initiatives and our financial and administrative services for foundations.

The report also lists clients served in 2011 and the total grants made by the foundations that we actively manage.

EVENTS OF NOTE

If we want to really make strides in bridging the achievement gap, we must start thinking outside the walls of school buildings and work with those who have the most at stake in the future of their children: their parents. — Sarah Walzer

The Parent-Child Home Program hosted a funder briefing at GMA Foundations that highlighted the impact of early intervention programs for children.

The program is an intensive, evidence-based early childhood literacy, parenting, and school readiness initiative serving 8000 low-income families in 16 states. Continue Reading »