Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2013 Jane Jacobs Medal
Release Date:
10/14/2013
The Medal is awarded annually to individuals whose work creates new ways of seeing and understanding New York City.
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Groups seek changes in NY policy as hunger grows
Release Date:
10/14/2013
Advocacy groups are pushing for changes in New York policy to attack what they say is a rising tide of hunger among the working poor, children and the elderly while combating obesity and boosting farming.
See the Storify and More: Education Funders Research Initiative Launch Event
Release Date:
10/10/2013
More than 130 attendees joined us and an esteemed panel of education leaders at the launch of the Education Funders Research Initiative, our new project to engage New Yorkers and focus on how the education system can best prepare and support...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $1.3 Million in Support of Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Theatre Fields
Release Date:
10/09/2013
The grants to nine national arts organizations were awarded through DDCF's Fund for National Projects and are designed to strengthen the national infrastructure of the professional nonprofit dance, jazz, presenting and theatre fields and improve...
Top Education Official Supports More Teacher Professional Development
Release Date:
10/08/2013
Beth Fertig reports from the Education Funders Research Initiative launch event at Trinity Wall Street for The Times’ SchoolBook blog.
Report: What Works - and Doesn't - in NYC Schools
Release Date:
10/08/2013
Beth Fertig reviews the Education Funders Research Initiative’s first two reports for The Times’ SchoolBook blog. (PNY President Ronna Brown is also interviewed in the article.)
These Donors Will Take Anything but Manhattan
Release Date:
10/08/2013
This article on donors who support arts and culture organizations in boroughs other than Manhattan includes Shelley and Donald Rubin and Laurie M. Tisch.
How to Build Strong Ties With Companies
Release Date:
10/08/2013
American Express Foundation President Timothy McClimon and DoSomething,org CEO Nancy Lublin participated in a Chronicle Live Discussion on how nonprofits can make themselves more attractive to a corporate benefactor.
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Announces Recipients of 2013 SEED Grants
Release Date:
10/08/2013
16 emerging arts organizations across the country receive three years of unrestricted operating capital as a surprise award
To Get Beyond Two Percent, We Have to Go Beyond Giving
Release Date:
10/08/2013
Arabella Advisors Founder and Managing Director Eric Kessler weighs in on Dan Pallotta’s closing talk at the 2013 TED Conference and suggests how funders can respond to the growing demands on the nonprofit sector and increase the impact of...
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