NCF Welcomes Leticia Peguero, New Vice President of Programs
NEW YORK – The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) is pleased to announce that Leticia Peguero will join the Foundation as Vice President of Programs. Leticia brings more than 20 years of experience leading and managing programs and grantmaking at the intersections of social and racial justice and the arts. In her new role, she joins the …
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America’s Concentration Crisis: An Open Market’s Institute Report
“Monopoly power is all around us: as consumers, business owners, employees, entrepreneurs, and citizens. When we purchase everything from washing machines to groceries, website domains to medical supplies, and even when we select a coffin for a recently deceased loved one, we are constrained by the small set of actors who increasingly control America’s commerce. …
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2019 Sundance Film Festival: Amid Record High Submissions, Announcing New Hires, Talent Forum, Data-Driven Demographic Initiatives & Critic Stipends
“The Institute’s new Press Inclusion Initiative includes stipend grants to defray travel and lodging costs for over fifty freelance critics and journalists, with founding support from The Nathan Cummings Foundation , Emerson Collective, Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Netflix, Open Society Foundations, and Rotten Tomatoes . Ford Foundation, with additional support from The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Emerson Collective, the …
Confronting the Prison-Industrial Complex
Philanthropists can help address over-incarceration in America and the serious harm it does to communities by supporting efforts to better understand and confront the network of companies that currently profit from the US prison and detention system—what criminal justice experts call “the prison-industrial complex.” Read more via Arabella Advisors.
What We Learned from the State of Latinx Media Panel
Elizabeth Mendez Berry shared her experience as a music writer in the 2000s when music criticism was valued in the industry as well as beyond white readership. She has now pivoted to working in philanthropy, most recently for the Nathan Cummings Foundation and is an ardent cultural critic advocate. “Critical thinking is important for artistic practice …
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Environmental activism can be lonely for people of color.
Foundations’ Votes Matter: Leveraging Ownership Rights to Further Your Mission
At a time when progress on critical issues like inequality, racial justice and climate change is both threatened and increasingly urgent, a growing number of investors are looking to use their investments to drive change on social and environmental issues while generating financial returns. At the Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF), for example, we strive to …
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Teen Girls In Quinceañera Dresses Protest Texas Immigration Law
Teen girls celebrating their quinceañera are protesting on the steps of the Texas capitol Wednesday against a law allowing local police to question the immigration status of anyone they detain.
Jolt Texas’ We Are Texas Report
“We Are Texas is a study undertaken by Jolt Initiative in partnership with Ethnifacts and US-ness to better understand the values, issues, voting patterns and barriers to civic participation of one of the state’s largest and fastest growing demographic groups—young Latinos. Click here to read the full report.” Visit http://www.joltinitiative.org/research/ for more information.
Diversifying Perspectives and Sharing Power at a Family Foundation
It’s no secret that family foundations must navigate family dynamics. But while it may seem counterintuitive, opening up governance structures and decision-making processes to non-family members can actually make it easier to do so. Barr Foundation’s Jim Canales and Barbara Hostetter talked about their own experiences with sharing governance power in an earlier piece in …
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NCF Remembers Buddy Mayer
NEW YORK – Beatrice “Buddy” Cummings Mayer, the matriarch of the Nathan Cummings family and a founding Trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) passed away at age 97 on Saturday, September 15th in Chicago. The staff and Board of NCF grieve her loss and hold her memory tightly, with gratitude for the many gifts …
Vera Institute’s Reimagining Prison Report
“Prison in America causes individual, community, and generational pain and deprivation. Built on a system of racist policies and practices that has disproportionately impacted people of color, mass incarceration has decimated communities and families. But the harsh conditions within prisons neither ensure safety behind the walls nor prevent crime and victimization in the community. In …
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NCF Welcomes Lavastian Glenn, Director, Racial and Economic Justice
NEW YORK – The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) is pleased to announce that Lavastian Glenn will join the Foundation as its Director, Racial and Economic Justice. In her new role, she joins the Foundation’s leadership team working to advance solutions to the two most challenging problems of our time – the climate crisis and growing …
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