MIAMI, FL (September 3, 2025) – Give Miami Day, one of the nation’s largest giving events, returns Thursday, November 20, 2025, for its 14th year. Powered by The Miami Foundation, Give Miami Day invites the entire community to financially support more than 1,000 local nonprofits, fueling solutions for Greater Miami’s most pressing challenges. New this year, the celebration (and giving!) … Read More
Rebecca Fishman Lipsey on shaping community impact
This profile on The Miami Foundation’s leader is the fifth in a weekly series highlighting the South Florida Business Journal’s 2024 South Florida Ultimate CEO Awards honorees. Original By Jeff Zbar – South Florida Business Journal Rebecca Fishman Lipsey President and CEO, The Miami Foundation Age: 43 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Residence: Miami Beach Rebecca Fishman Lipsey’s career speaks to her commitment … Read More
Covid-era program busts myth that funding lower-income businesses is risky
Four years ago this month, Wells Fargo created the Open for Business Fund by voluntarily donating all processing fees earned from Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans made in 2020 to provide grants to Community Development Financial Institutions and other nonprofits positioned to help small businesses manage the economic effects of Covid-19. The OFB grants provided much-needed capital, technical assistance, and … Read More
Penthouse gifted by billionaire Jorge Pérez to nonprofit sold for $10 million
Original By Dina Katgara – South Florida Business Journal An ocean-view penthouse on South Beach that was deeded to the Miami Foundation has sold for $10 million. In April, Related Group Chairman and CEO Jorge M. Pérez and his wife Darlene deeded the condominium at 1 Collins Ave., Unit 706, to the Miami Foundation for $100. The unit sold on June 25 … Read More
As Atlantic hurricane season begins, Florida community foundations prepare permanent disaster funds
Original By Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Associated Press May 27, 2024 After the collapse of a condominium tower in North Miami in June 2021, Rebecca Fishman Lipsey realized her organization needed to overhaul how it responded to disasters. As CEO of the Miami Foundation, the city’s primary community foundation, Fishman Lipsey got to work coalescing support for victims of the tragedy that … Read More
Black-owned businesses collaborate to get loans and financial support
A new program offers grants and other sources of support to help businesses willing to work together to get the financing needed to build, grow and expand. The program is changing communities and helping families to build generational wealth with entrepreneurship… read more on NBC 6 South Florida.
Half Moon Empanadas CEO Pilar Guzmán Makes Inc.’s 2024 Female Founders List
Inc.’s seventh annual Female Founders list highlights entrepreneurs with world-changing companies MIAMI, APRIL 9, 2024 – We are thrilled to announce that our very own Pilar Guzman, a Miami Foundation trustee and Miami Fellows alumna, was named to Inc. magazine’s seventh annual Female Founders list, which honors 250 women whose innovations and ideas are shaping the world into a better … Read More
Inspired by brother’s memory, South Florida man finds solutions to support local businesses
A grieving Liberty City business owner carries on his younger brother’s legacy. “Danny had a vision,” said Phillip Agnew. “He never stopped up until that last moment.” A violent car crash on I-95 in Miami last summer claimed the life of a South Florida activist, Daniel Agnew. Now, Phillip helps take the lead in finding solutions to support local businesses … Read More
Mackenzie Scott gives unprecedented $11 million in unrestricted funds to 6 Miami nonprofits
Miami is at the forefront of many important civic and community issues that impact not only our region, but the nation at large. From climate resilience to immigration, the strength of Miami’s social impact infrastructure has great consequences. Here at The Miami Foundation, we are pleased to see a growing trend of philanthropists – both local and national – prioritizing … Read More
Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News
A coalition of 22 donors today announced Press Forward, a national initiative to strengthen communities and democracy by supporting local news and information with an infusion of more than a half-billion dollars over the next five years. Press Forward will enhance local journalism at an unprecedented level to re-center local news as a force for community cohesion; support new models and solutions that are ready to scale; and close longstanding inequities in journalism coverage and practice.