Richard Rothstein is an American historian and academic. He is a Senior Fellow at the Haas Institute at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute. Previously,...
Over the past two decades, food has emerged as a central strategy and focus of nonprofits worldwide concerned with environmentalism and climate change, public health and hunger, community and economic development, human rights, and racial and social...
Ibram X. Kendi is one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, a New York Times Bestselling Author and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive...
While there has been much activity throughout the U.S. and in New York City on criminal justice reform in recent years, including consensus among local policymakers to close Rikers Island and cut the number of people involved in the system by half...
According to a recent study by Pricewaterhouse Coopers, more than half of employees in the United States report that they are financially stressed, and nearly one in three employees report being distracted by personal financial issues while at work...
School gardening, hands-on cooking, food justice education, health literacy - by any name nutrition education is more important than ever for students' health, academic achievement, and development as 21st century citizens.
Many funders say racial and gender equity strengthens their grantmaking and aligns perfectly with their philanthropic mission. Thus, more foundations are interested in assessing the equitability of their operational practice.
How can funders advance nonprofit equity, performance, impact, and sustainability? By investing in grantee staff and the systems that support them. No matter your size, issue focus or model of your foundation, this skill-building workshop will help...
The 2020 Census Funders Group is an ad hoc group of regional philanthropic leaders working in partnership with national and local nonprofit, government and business leaders – as well as our upstate sister organization New York Funders Alliance and...