Learn about TCF's 100th Anniversary
Release Date:
03/20/2019
Watch a short video highlighting their history—and the work to come in the century ahead.
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Kristen Woolf joins EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation as Vice President of Programs
Release Date:
03/20/2019
Kristen Woolf has joined EMpower – The Emerging Markets Foundation as Vice President of Programs. In this role, Kristen will oversee all of EMpower’s grantmaking work and programmatic activity in fifteen countries, and will contribute significant...
Larry Bloom named Vice President, Global Operations and Finance at EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation
Release Date:
03/20/2019
Larry Bloom joined EMpower – The Emerging Markets Foundation in February 2019 as Vice President, Global Operations and Finance of EMpower.
Introducing the Winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards
Release Date:
03/20/2019
For the fifth consecutive year, The Paris Review Daily is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards . As in previous years, we’re also delighted to share excerpts from work by each of the winners.
Building on #MeToo, Foundations Look to Change Workplaces in the U.S. and Around the World
Release Date:
03/19/2019
Feeling safe at work is not something many people, especially women, can take for granted—a fact strongly tied to men’s tendency to mistreat women in many cultures. Women’s safety at work in the U.S. and around the world is the initial focus of a...
JPMorgan Chase Gives $350M to Workforce Training, Community Colleges
Release Date:
03/19/2019
Eyes are on community colleges to provide the training panacea for the current skills gap as well as affordable ways for people to refresh or add to their skill sets throughout their lives.
Markle Foundation’s Skillful Initiative Welcomes 35 Career Coaches From Indiana for its First Convening Governor’s Coaching Corps
Release Date:
03/19/2019
Skillful Indiana, a Markle Foundation initiative, today welcomed 35 exceptional career coaches from across Indiana for the first convening of the Skillful Governor’s Coaching Corps, an 8-month training and leadership development program. The program...
If Elite Colleges Want to Address the College Admissions Bribery Scandal — Accept More Low- and Middle-Income Strivers
Release Date:
03/18/2019
The admission scandal is a stain on the reputation of our top universities. If these institutions want to change their admission policies, they should double down on their outreach to Strivers. I am referring to America’s Strivers — the talented and...
Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers New, Solar-Powered Technology that Collects and Cleans Water from Air
Release Date:
03/18/2019
Access to clean water remains one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. A breakthrough by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin may offer a new solution through solar-powered technology that absorbs moisture from the air and returns...
The Rockefeller Foundation Names Maria Santos Valentin as New General Counsel
Release Date:
03/18/2019
The Rockefeller Foundation today announced that Maria Santos Valentin has been named General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the Foundation. Valentin comes to the foundation from the Soros Economic Development Fund – part of the Open Society...
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