Underwater Mortgages, Drowning Cities, and Rogue Financiers
Release Date:
08/06/2013
A blog post by Robert C. Hockett, Fellow at The Century Foundation.
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Sloan Foundation Partners With Cornell, Georgia Tech, Penn State to Boost STEM Mentoring Among Minorities
Release Date:
08/05/2013
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s partnership with Cornell University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University will fund University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring for minority graduate students in STEM (science,...
William T. Grant Foundation Awards $1.7 Million for Research to Benefit Youth
Release Date:
08/03/2013
The seven grants totaling nearly $1.7 million are in support of researchers and organizations working to understand and improve the environments in which youth spend their time.
Better Prepared for Tomorrow
Release Date:
08/01/2013
We’re pleased to have Hollis Headrick, Program Consultant with The New York Community Trust’s Hive Digital Media Learning Fund, recap our recent program on the impact of digital media learning and technology on education and workforce development (...
Penn Announces $1.28 Million Grant for Digital Archaeological Archive
Release Date:
08/01/2013
The grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will support a collaboration with the British Museum to create a digital archive of archaeological excavations of the ancient...
Businesses With a Social Conscience Reach a Tipping Point
Release Date:
08/01/2013
An op-ed by Phillip Henderson, President of the Surdna Foundation.
Better Prepared for Tomorrow: Youth, Media, Technology and the Future of Education and the Workforce
Release Date:
08/01/2013
by Hollis Headrick, Program Consultant, Hive Digital Media Learning Fund, The New York Community Trust The new media ecology can be overwhelming, with a growing array of digital devices, the proliferation of massive open online...
Resilience Begins at Home
Release Date:
07/30/2013
Rockefeller Foundation Vice President of Global Communications Neill Coleman discusses the findings of a recent survey exploring the resilience of people and neighborhoods directly affected by Superstorm Sandy.
79 percent in neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy say rebuild even in face of risk
Release Date:
07/30/2013
A survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research examining resilience following Superstorm Sandy (and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation) also found that about 1 in 4 Americans believe they live in an area extremely at...
Why Impact Investing Is An Emerging Paradigm Shift In Philanthropy
Release Date:
07/30/2013
An op-ed by Amy Bell, Executive Director and Head of Principal Investments for JPMorgan Chase’s Social Finance business unit.
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