Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Evaluators are calling an "extraordinary success" an initiative launched in NYC in 2008, with support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, to make more fresh fruits and vegetables available in low-income neighborhoods.
The Morgan Stanley Foundation is awarding more than $1 million in grants to local food banks and their hunger-relief programs that deliver nutritious meals to children and families in 27 cities and 17 states.
[Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund] New York City's Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food in otherwise underserved high-density and low-income neighborhoods, influenced customers' consumption of fruits and vegetables, and...
Nonprofits throughout NYC working to help victims of human trafficking, stop gang violence and build young leaders are among the 69 groups sharing in $7.3 million in grants from The New York Community Trust
Morgan Stanley is launching Healthy Cities, a philanthropy program designed to fuel innovation in coordinating the wellness, nutrition and play resources that can underpin a child’s healthy start in life.
[North Star Fund] Years after a blackout wiped out power in swaths of western Queens, money from a settlement with Con Edison has been used to turn over a new, green leaf in the neighborhoods affected by it — including 962 trees and 40 new school...