2013

Dear donors, supporters, wishful thinkers and idealists, This update comes to you with great happiness and pride to prove small moves make huge changes. KEDV (Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work) has recently submitted their final project report. In October of 2011, we at TPF were quick to grant KEDV $25,000 to build a Women […]

By Gulsah Senol Turkish Philanthropy Funds realizes the importance of  investing time and effort to raising a younger generation of philanthropists. Since its inception in September 2011, Young Philanthropists for TPF has been doing just that, creating a new generation of present donors and future philanthropists. Led by the Junior Board, a group of young […]

Corporations are counting on their employees to help mold their CSR strategy. Employers such as Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and more have pledged to match (or sometimes double!) donations made by their employees. Microsoft recently announced that the Microsoft Giving Campaign has raised $1 billion in cash for more than 31,000 global nonprofit […]

  TPF Turned 6! What an exciting day we had! TPF wanted to celebrate its birthday by giving out gifts, so we decided to match donations up to $5,000. Boy, did our donors respond! We were flooded with generous gifts, and even two special donations to increase the matching gift amount to $15,000. We closed the […]

From now until April 2nd, TPF will be matching all donations made to Tohum Autism Foundation and Turkiye Yardim Sevenler Dernegi in honor of Autism Awareness Day! Follow @tphilanthropy with #otizm and #autism to join the conversation ! TPF has been running a campaign for Autism that began with the Junior Board’s Mardi Gras for […]

Women and girls of all ages gathered in various squares around Istanbul and other cities, some carrying “no to violence against women” banners as they danced.  

Mark Zuckerberg is a trendsetter. He is doing what all donors should consider doing. He wants to give back to his community, he wants to stay connected to his donation and he does not want to take on all the administrative work that comes with social investment. That’s why Zuckerberg gave 18 million Facebook shares, […]