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A Giving Mission: The Community Foundation For Northeast Florida
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund

The foundation manages more than 700 funds with more than $655 million in assets.The Women's Giving Alliance, established at the Community Foundation in 2002, has grown from five to 460 members and...more

Cummer Museum Receives $1 Million Grant from the Prestigious Mellon Foundation
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Wanda J. Willis, M.A. has been selected for the newly-created position of Vice President, Civic Leadership for The Community...more

Focus On Philanthropy: Opportunity For Everyone
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund

MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, donated $4.2 billion to 400 organizations nationwide in December. But the Florida woman, who is also the last of her family to...more

Guest column: 'The Jessie' a safe haven for charities
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund

As also when we partnered with the Community Foundation to create the Community Building Fund to help strengthen youth-serving organizations...more

Jacksonville-area relief fund raises $5.4 million to help nonprofits meet 'unprecedented' pandemic ...
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund

It is a collaboration of The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, Jessie Ball duPont Fund, Jewish Federation and Foundation of...more

Edward Waters: $250000 from duPont Fund 'tremendous' investment in Honors College
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Now the Jacksonville-based philanthropy has donated another $150,000 to help expand the program, which welcomed its second class this...more

Amid This Year's Struggle, New And Tougher Companies Are Born In The $900M Arts Economy
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund

One of the problems with impact investing in big companies is that when ... Innovation and impact investing using small and private companies as ... a social enterprise with $5 million in impact...more

Upstart Co-Lab Finds $1 Billion For Impact Investments
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Ford Foundation

Upstart Co-Lab, New York City has launched a new impact investment ... Together, they represent $1 billion in potential impact investing, according...more

First Coast Relief Fund grants $3.3 million in COVID-19 assistance
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund

The Fund is a collaboration between The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, Jessie Ball duPont Fund, Jewish Federation and Foundation...more

Florida's First Coast Relief Fund awards grants to 9 agencies
Foundation: Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Florida's First Coast Relief Fund is a collaboration of United Way of St. Johns County, United Way of Northeast Florida, The Community Foundation...more



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Senay Ataselim-Yilmaz, Chief Operating Officer, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, writes that philanthropy often solves the very problems that stems from market failure. Some social issues, however,  cannot be tackled by questioning the return on investment.




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