Iris Chen Named Executive Director of The Fund for Public Schools
Release Date:
08/05/2014
Iris Chen has been named executive director of The Fund for Public Schools.
Education
Donors Education Collaborative Awards $995,000 For Education Reform
Release Date:
08/04/2014
The Donors’ Education Collaborative, a fund at the New York Community Trust established to improve New York City public schools, announced $995,000 in grants to 11 nonprofit organizations pushing for reforms to reduce inequality and increase...
Target Hits $25 Million Goal For School Supply Donations
Release Date:
08/04/2014
Target Corp. announced that it hit its campaign goal to donate $25 million in school supplies to children in need based on purchases made in its stores nationwide from July 13 through Aug. 2.
Report Shows Some Success For NYC's Young Men's Initiative
Release Date:
07/28/2014
A program started during former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, and which received support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Open Society Foundations, was successful at increasing job placement and internship attendance for at-risk males...
Sixteen Scientists Named 2014 Simons Investigators
Release Date:
07/25/2014
The Simons Foundation has selected 16 scientists as the Simons Investigators in 2014 to support their studies in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science and the mathematical modeling of living systems.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces 10-Fold Increase in Grant Distributions
Release Date:
07/25/2014
Brooklyn Community Foundation fund holders directed over $200,000 in grants—more than 90 percent going to Brooklyn nonprofits—for the first six months of 2014, a 10-fold increase over the same period last year.
Alan "Ace" Greenberg, Leading NY Philanthropist, Dies
Release Date:
07/25/2014
Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the former head of Bear Stearns, who raised hundreds of millions for the UJA-Federation of New York over his decades of involvement with the organization, and who instilled the importance of giving to charity in his employees,...
NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals
Release Date:
07/24/2014
Support from the Wallace Foundation is helping NYC partner with several organizations to train future principals for the city's schools.
Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies
Release Date:
07/24/2014
Forward-thinking school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can improve educational outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial-equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies...
A Year of Service
Release Date:
07/23/2014
Tim McClimon, vice president for corporate social responsibility at American Express and president of the American Express Foundation, writes about a new national effort that envisions a future in which young people spend a year in service to the...
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