On August 30th, the Edital do Instituto Carlyle Brasil (Carlyle Brazil Institute Bid) was closed, made through a partnership with BrazilFoundation, to support civil society organizations that work in the field of education in São Paulo. The Carlyle Institute is an initiative of the Grupo Carlyle (Carlyle Group) workers and supporters – one of the […]
Invited by the InterAmerican Foundation (IAF), BrazilFoundation participated in the “GrantmakersWithout Borders” 12th Annual Conference in September. This year the event focused on “How Philanthropy Can Meet the Challenges of Our Time”. The event was held onSeptember 5-7-th, in Berkeley, California. Patricia Lobaccaro, BrazilFoundation’s CEO, and Cecília Oswaldo Cruz, Program Manager, talked about the mobilization […]
The name, by mere coincidence, is almost the same as the famous pianist Rohan de Silva, born in Sri Lanka. But no one doubts that this name is Brazilian when the flutist from Pará presents his name in full: Rohan Ferrão Silva Silva – even so with a repetition of the most common surname in […]
Produced by Board Member Karin Dauch and movie director Gabriel Menes, the three videos showed during the Gala moved all the guests. Each one of them portrays stories of a person who had his or her life transformed by a BrazilFoundation grantee. Their stories symbolize our work. With completely different backgrounds, and from different places […]
In its tenth year, the BrazilFoundation New York Gala has gathered once again, in good will, Brazilians and Americans at the Museum of Natural History yesterday (the 19th); Arpad A. Busson, André Brandão, Manoel de Andrade and Malu Millerman were the honorees. “Sun is shining, the weather is sweet. Make you want to move […]
A small gathering organized on September 14th by the Consul General of Brazil in New York, Mr. Luiz Felipe de Seixas Corrêa, launched the celebrations of the big event of the year BrazilFoundation: the Gala in New York, which will take place next Wednesday, November 19th, at the American Museum of Natural History. There were […]
During the summer months of July and August, BrazilFoundation’s team was supported by four interns: Nathalia Abi-Ackel, from Brasilia; Victoria Abreu, from Geneva; Philip Rothaus and Jamiah Harris, from New York. Nathalia is studying Communications and Law at Centro Universitário de Brasília (CEUB). Victoria attends high school at Collège du Léman in Geneva, Switzerland. Jamiah […]
The Grota Cultural Space of Surucucu, Niterói offers diverse activities in music, art, culture, education, and citizenship for the local population. One of the activities is the Orquestra de Cordas da Grota, which launched a commemorative CD in June to mark its 15th year, and to open a photo-history exposition. The performance happened in Solar […]
When the carioca André Levy returned to Brazil, 12 years ago, after attending a master’s degree at Stanford, in California, BrazilFoundation had just been founded in New York as one of the first international organizations in order to direct investments in social and environmental projects in the country. At that time, the mathematician and master […]
It has been nearly ten years since BrazilFoundation held its first Gala in New York in 2003. This year’s event will be held on September 19th at the American Museum of Natural History. As we celebrate the tenth installment of the Annual Gala, the foundation will honor the Gala’s founder and chair of its first […]