The Morgan Stanley Foundation is awarding more than $1 million in grants to local food banks and their hunger-relief programs that deliver nutritious meals to children and families in 27 cities and 17 states.
Barnard College has received $800,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a major new academic initiative: Barnard Teaches: Real Place + Digital Access.
Claire Tow, who founded The Tow Foundation with her husband, Leonard, in 1988, died Monday at age 83, following a 14-year struggle with Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS).
Nancy Wackstein, executive director, United Neighborhood Houses of New York, on why funders should trust nonprofit leaders they already trust to make the best decisions about to spend grant money to advance their organizations' missions.
The Giving Pledge may be vogue today for many wealthy Americans, but as Forbes notes, the idea was first advanced 125 years ago when Andrew Carnegie, whose money endowed Carnegie Corporation of New York, wrote an essay encouraging other...
A New York State Health Foundation official calls the "HealthPlex," a free-standing emergency center opening across the street from the former St. Vincent's Hospital in NYC, as as a test case for a new kind of care.