NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals
Release Date:
07/24/2014
Support from the Wallace Foundation is helping NYC partner with several organizations to train future principals for the city's schools.
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Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies
Release Date:
07/24/2014
Forward-thinking school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can improve educational outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial-equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies...
So many working groups, so many ways to engage!
Release Date:
07/23/2014
In the first issue of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition (formerly Philanthropy Connects), PNY's Michael Remaley gives the uninitiated the run-down on all the various local issue-base working groups we support.
A Year of Service
Release Date:
07/23/2014
Tim McClimon, vice president for corporate social responsibility at American Express and president of the American Express Foundation, writes about a new national effort that envisions a future in which young people spend a year in service to the...
Grants Awarded To Improve Usefulness Of Research, To Support Junior Researchers of Color
Release Date:
07/23/2014
The William T. Grant Foundation has made $1.6 million in grants to improve the usefulness of research, $634,000 to support connections between education research and practice, and $205,000 to enhance the mentoring relationships of three foundation...
William Simon President Questions Motives of "Liberal" Foundations Working To Advance Democracy
Release Date:
07/23/2014
Citing efforts dating back to the 1960s, the president of the William E. Simon Foundation argues that major foundations--including Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller--have pursued "an obvious, politically liberal, ideological agenda" in the name of...
Community Revitalization Works Better When A "Quarterback" Is In Charge
Release Date:
07/22/2014
The "community quarterback" model can be an effective approach to revitalizing troubled neighborhoods, write Nancy O. Andrews, president and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund, and Brandee McHale, COO at the Citi Foundation, in a post on the SSIR...
Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change"
Release Date:
07/22/2014
Two individuals with organizations supported by both the Rockefeller Foundation and the Surdna Foundation were named Tuesday by the White House as "Champions of Change" for their efforts to ensure that no American working 40 hours a week should have...
New Banking Services Aimed At Low-Income Customers
Release Date:
07/22/2014
To serve the needs of low-income customers, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are among U.S. financial institutions introducing new products, and to expose the high costs of living without a bank account, American Express has sponsored a 40-minute...
Citi Foundation Pledges $10 Million To "My Brother's Keeper"
Release Date:
07/21/2014
As part of a group of funders making additional commitments to the White House's "My Brother's Keeper" initiative, Citi Foundation will provide $10 million over three years to underwrite volunteer programs in 10 cities designed to increase college...
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