Red Cross gives $1.25M grant to Brooklyn Community Foundation
Release Date:
05/30/2013
The grant from the American Red Cross in Greater New York will support long-term recovery efforts for people affected by Superstorm Sandy.
Member News
RE.invest Initiative to Partner With Eight Cities to Develop Resilient Stormwater Systems
Release Date:
05/29/2013
The Rockefeller Foundation-funded initiative is a two-year effort to help municipalities rethink the way they design, plan, implement and finance infrastructure.
Teagle Foundation Awards More Than $1.5 Million
Release Date:
05/29/2013
Most of the eleven grants were awarded through the foundation's Larger Vision for Student Learning: Education for Civic and Moral Responsibility initiative.
Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Releases Final Report
Release Date:
05/28/2013
The foundation’s $340 million graduate-level fellowship initiative has, over the past twelve years, helped more than 4300 social justice leaders from 22 countries advance their education and bring new knowledge and skills back to their home...
Nonprofit Community Health Clinics Receive $1.9 Million in Grants From Hartford Foundation
Release Date:
05/27/2013
The grants were awarded using funds from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Social Innovation Fund.
Scathing Report Highlights Forgotten Role of Community Colleges
Release Date:
05/26/2013
Century Foundation Trustee Melissa Harris-Perry and Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg discuss the findings from the foundation’s new report.
Donor Collaborations: Size Matters Less Than You Think
Release Date:
05/24/2013
SeaChange Capital Partners’ John MacIntosh responds to a recent SSIR article on high stakes donor collaborations, using the New York Merger, Acquisition, and Collaboration Fund (NYMAC) as a case study.
How our community colleges are falling behind
Release Date:
05/23/2013
The Century Foundation’s new report details the large socioeconomic, racial and funding divide between community colleges and elite institutions.
Though Enrolling More Poor Students, 2-Year Colleges Get Less of Federal Pie
Release Date:
05/22/2013
A review of the findings from The Century Foundation’s report on the nation’s community colleges.
To Be a True Practitioner of Democracy
Release Date:
05/22/2013
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat visiting the United States saw a new phenomenon in America. In Democracy in America, the book that emerged from his experiences, he called it "individualism," a word he coined to describe the...
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