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Turkish Philanthropy Funds Hosts 2024 Innovation and Social Impact Summit  Chobani, Google, Amazon, Microsoft executives join social impact experts and investors. Discussions on AI for social good; innovation in disaster resilience; corporations and social impact (New York, April 2nd, 2024) – Turkish Philanthropy Funds, the leading U.S. community foundation for high-impact social investments dedicated to Turkish […]

New York, NY (May 18, 2023) – Turkish Philanthropy Funds is proud to announce the 2023 Sena Eken Schieber Economics Award recipients Ayşe Nur Battal, Elif Şen, Kardelen Çiçek, and Sıla Öztürk. The Sena Eken Schieber Economics Award was established in 2015 by George Schieber in honor of his late wife, Sena Eken Schieber, a […]

Turkish-American Entrepreneurs Eren and Fatih Ozmen Join Forces with Hamdi Ulukaya to Support Earthquake Relief Efforts in Turkiye (Turkey) Ozmen Family and Ulukaya donate a total of $4M in combined support SPARKS, Nev. (Feb. 15, 2023) – Turkish-born entrepreneurs Eren and Fatih Ozmen, owners of Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), and Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO and founder […]

(New York, February 6th, 2023) – Turkish Philanthropy Funds has launched its Türkiye Earthquake Relief Fund on February 6th, 2023. The fund was created as an immediate response to the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Gaziantep and its neighboring cities on February 6th at 4:17 AM local time. The earthquake was felt by at […]

New York, August 11, 2022 — Turkish Philanthropy Funds is pleased to announce that Mustafa Kemal Abadan, Aykut Atali, and Ülkü Rowe have been elected to serve as members of the Board of Directors as of July 1, 2022. Each of these new Board members brings with them a unique perspective and the same unyielding drive […]

New York, NY (June 23, 2022) – Turkish Philanthropy Funds is proud to announce the recipients of the 2022 Educ8 Program: Duygu Göksoy, Sena Altun, Büşra Gül Murat, and İpek Hanife Yılmaz. These young women have great potential, and we’re honored that with your help, we will be helping them unlock it. In 2014, with […]

New York, NY (June 16, 2022) – Turkish Philanthropy Funds is proud to announce the 2022 Sena Eken Schieber Economics Award recipients Esin Hacıoğlu, Kardelen Çiçek, and Sıla Öztürk. The Sena Eken Schieber Economics Award continues to be the only award earmarked for young women from Turkey to obtain graduate degrees in the field of Economics in […]