Markle Foundation Mourns the Loss of Board Member Steven A. Denning
The Markle Foundation is deeply saddened to share that our longtime board member, colleague, and friend, Steven A. Denning, passed away on April 27, 2026….
The Markle Foundation is deeply saddened to share that our longtime board member, colleague, and friend, Steven A. Denning, passed away on April 27, 2026….
New Multi-sector, Bipartisan Effort Harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Save Lives and Protect Communities NEW YORK, December 10, 2025 – The Markle Foundation today announced…
After seven years of exceptional leadership at the Markle Foundation, President Beth Cobert has informed the Board of Directors that she intends to leave the Foundation on February 9, 2024. The Board has announced that it has begun its search for a new President, and that Ellen V. Futter, former President of the American Museum of Natural History and of Barnard College, will serve as Markle’s Interim President.
Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit that drives transformation of the U.S. education and workforce systems, and the Markle Foundation, which works to improve the economic security, national security, and health of all Americans, announced plans to transfer one of the foundation’s marquee initiatives, the Rework America Alliance, to JFF.
January 27, 2000
NEW YORK, NY—The Markle Foundation, in conjunction with the New America Foundation, has established the Markle Fellows program designed specifically to support writers addressing issues…
November 2, 1999
LOS ANGELES, CA—The Markle Foundation is committing more than $1-million to improve Internet governance, including several major initiatives designed to make ICANN, the Internet’s first…
October 26, 1999
NEW YORK, NY—Andrew Rasiej, Founder & President of MOUSE (Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools & Education), a non-profit organization providing volunteer manpower and technical support…
October 8, 1999
CAMBRIDGE, MA—This final event of the Markle-funded Media in Transition Project at M.I.T. aims to establish a broad-gauged discussion of our emerging computer culture in…
October 1, 1999
NEW YORK, NY—Ruth Ann Burns, Vice President and Director of the Educational Resources Center at Thirteen/WNET and Zoë Baird, President of the Markle Foundation announced…
July 26, 1999
NEW YORK, NY—The Markle Foundation will invest up to $100 million over the next three-to-five years to help ensure that public needs are served by…
October 28, 1998
WASHINGTON, DC—Web White & Blue, the campaign to promote easy access to election-related information on the Internet, has demonstrated the public’s tremendous interest in using…
October 6, 1998
WASHINGTON, DC—The Markle Foundation and Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government…
October 5, 1998
NEW YORK, NY—At 6:00 AM, PDT a new era in American Politics began. At long last, the promise of the Internet—to provide voters on-demand access…
