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The foundation's headquarters moved from Akron, Ohio to Miami in 1990. At that time, the foundation's portfolio was valued at $522 million and staff had grown to 14 employees. On February 5, 1991, James Knight died, leaving a bulk of his estate, $200 million, to the foundation. Hills succeeded as chairman of the board.
The murder of George Floyd sparked a wave of activism for the Black Lives Matter movement that renewed calls for social justice reform and the end of systemic racism, and included declarations of support from various corporations; [2] [3] according to TIME Magazine, James wanted to "find a way that companies could make a tangible change," and "from there, the 15 Percent Pledge was born."
The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund just announced it is awarding $8.5 million in preservation grants to 30 historically Black churches ...
The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was an offer by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to pay out one million U.S. dollars to any famous person who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. A version of the challenge was first issued in 1964.
The grant is designed to support founders who identify as Asian, Black, Latinx, women, LGBTQ+, military veterans or a business in a low-to-moderate income area.
A federal judge in Atlanta ruled Tuesday that a venture capital firm can continue offering a grant program only to Black women entrepreneurs, saying a lawsuit arguing it illegally excluded other ...
The William E. Harmon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement Among Negroes, commonly referred to as the "Harmon award" or "Harmon Foundation award", was a philanthropic and cultural award created in 1926 by William E. Harmon [1] and administered by the Harmon Foundation. It was offered for distinguished achievements in eight different ...
A U.S. federal appeals court has granted a conservative group’s request to temporarily block a Black-owned venture capitalist firm from awarding grants exclusively to Black women entrepreneurs.