Andrew Cuomo, Stop a Coronavirus Disaster: Release People From Prison - Op-Ed Co-Written by Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
Release Date:
03/30/2020
This is a public health crisis that threatens to become a humanitarian disaster.
Justice Reform
Open Funding Opportunity for the Justice Fund at The New York Women's Foundation
Release Date:
01/07/2020
The Justice Fund at The New York Women’s Foundation is excited to announce that we are seeking grant proposals focused on Community Engagement and Systems Change efforts and initiatives.
JPMorgan Chase Joins Second Chance Efforts to Reduce Obstacles to Employment
Release Date:
10/21/2019
Expanding support for people with criminal backgrounds by advancing public policy agenda, investing more than $7 million in community organizations, collaborating with other businesses and enhancing firm hiring strategy. New JPMorgan Chase...
The New York Women’s Foundation Honors DeAnna Hoskins, President & CEO of JustLeadershipUSA, and Bryan Stevenson, Founder & Executive Director of The Equal Justice Initiative, at 2019 Radical Generosity Dinner
Release Date:
10/08/2019
The New York Women’s Foundation honored two of the nation’s leading champions of social justice on October 7 at its 2019 Radical Generosity Dinner at The Essex House on Central Park West.
Initial Funding From Ford Foundation, New York Community Trust Supports New Council on Criminal Justice
Release Date:
07/23/2019
New justice group aims to provide ‘Center of Gravity’ for reform.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Increases Investment in Funding Prison Education and Re-entry Programs
Release Date:
06/13/2019
Grants deepen Mellon’s years-long commitment to expanding educational opportunities for the incarcerated.
A Consequential Myth
Release Date:
04/09/2019
Race is a fictive idea that holds real-life consequences. As a black man, who has a six-foot-and-three-inch-tall presence, I am intimately familiar with the tangibility of the myth. Although many anthropologist and geneticists have disproved any...
Leaving Rikers: What the New York Women's Foundation Is Doing for Women in New York City's Worst Jail
Release Date:
04/09/2019
The New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF) created a Justice Fund in 2018 to address mass incarceration and its effects on women, girls and transgender and gender nonconforming communities in New York City.
Tow Foundation and Chronicle of Social Change Announce 2019 Raise the Age Reporting Fellowships Recipients
Release Date:
02/26/2019
As part of an ambitious plan to reinvigorate watchdog journalism in the backyards of America's statehouses, The Chronicle of Social Change is proud to announce recipients of its 2019 Raise the Age Reporting Fellowships. The national nonprofit news...
The New York Women’s Foundation Receives 2018 Art for Justice Fund Grant
Release Date:
12/07/2018
The New York Women’s Foundation (The Foundation) today announced the award of a $300,000 grant from the Art for Justice Fund.
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