The Pinkerton Foundation is on a journey to advance racial equity in the communities we care about through work done by the organizations we support. We know we are not alone.
Danielle Pulliam, Senior Program Officer, The Pinkerton Foundation, speaks on "Owning My Expertise' and Jenny Negron, Program Officer, The Pinkerton Foundation shares how she is "Embracing My Leadership"
Fifteen exceptional leaders of color in the youth development field have been selected to join the inaugural cohort of the Pinkerton Advanced Leadership Network.
Dozens of human services agencies and foundations in New York City are asking Mayor Bill de Blasio for a $50 million boost to the budget for foster care next year. The funding would go toward full-time life coaches and tutors for current and former...
After nearly 50 years on The Pinkerton Foundation Board of Trustees, former Executive Director and Board Secretary Joan Colello has decided to retire from active service on the board. Colello will become Trustee Emeritus, effective immediately,...
The Pinkerton Foundation announced the grant to John Jay College of Criminal Justice for continued support of the school’s Pinkerton Fellowship Initiative. Now in its sixth year, the Initiative provides funding for up to nineteen John Jay...
This program is the second part of a two-part series. The first part was a site visit to a model summer learning program at PS 48 in Jamaica, Queens. Research has demonstrated that summer learning loss is one of the most significant causes of the...
The Pinkerton Foundation will make grants of nearly $1 million to help eight of the city’s leading foster care agencies sponsor in-house mentored internships for the young adults they serve.
Now in its eighth year, the MSPP has welcomed roughly 60 high school students into its 2017 class, hailing from Hempstead, Uniondale and schools in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Beginning with a June 30 opening ceremony at Hempstead’s School of...
Research has demonstrated that summer learning loss is one of the most significant causes of the academic achievement gap between low-income students and their higher income peers, and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout...
The Pinkerton Foundation has published Steven Dawson’s fourth Pinkerton Paper in his Job Quality Series, this one on Social Enterprise: Proceed, with Caution.
Learning Leaders, a nonprofit that trains volunteers to work in hundreds of low-income schools across the city, will shut down next month because of difficulty obtaining enough money from the city Department of Education, the organization announced...
A graduate of the University of Alabama, Mosley earned his earned his J.D. at Alabama and an LL.M. from NYU. He is the former chairman of the board of the Greenwich Hospital and a board member of the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club and several...
The Pinkerton Foundation, formed in 1966 by the family that made its fortune in private security, has quietly given more than 300 million dollars to children’s organizations in the city, the New York Times reports.