A committee of directors from the foundation will judge the scholarship applicants based upon academic merit, creative accomplishment, community service and leadership.
The report, "Capitation and the Evolving Roles of Providers and Payers in New York," describes the basics of capitation, spelling out the range of new skills and capacities required by providers to be successful.
Honorees Amanda Matos, Gloria Malone, Doctor Danielle Moss Lee and Cherno Biko attended The New York Women's Foundation's 2016 celebration womens breakfast.
An effort to shut down coal-fired power plants reached a major milestone Tuesday, with 100,000 megawatts of coal electricity capacity having announced shutdown plans since 2010.
Like so many others, I was outraged when pictures emerged last month of partying teens in New Jersey engaging in a shocking beer pong game called “Jews versus Nazis.”
While the difference in high school graduation rates between high- and low-income students shrunk, inequality may have shifted to higher education, with gaps growing in college attendance and completion.
When The Ford Foundation began asking “Who are the drivers behind income inequality” they received technical answers from experts and cultural narratives from the average joe.
Recently, pop culture has been “like an injection of hi-octane fuel into the engine of public discourse about institutional racism, gender identity, immigration, pay equity, and other issues of social justice.
Hilary Pennington of the Ford Foundation says social justice fellowships use non-traditional ways to recruit talented individuals already working toward positive change in their communities.
From the Black Lives Matter movement to the school-to-prison-pipeline to Wall Street divestment from the “prison-industrial-complex,” many streams of public dialogue are coming together to undergird our discussion on “Rethinking American Justice.”