Listen: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Hosts a Conversation On The Value Of Workplace Diversity
Release Date:
02/28/2018
This conversation about workplace diversity was part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Our Compelling Interests series.
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Release Date:
02/28/2018
ShiftLabs is a design lab and pilot program that will work in partnership with communities across the country to help them diagnose how technology is changing work in their local and regional markets, learn from successful examples about how similar...
How to Win the Lottery
Release Date:
02/27/2018
Susan Olivo, Executive Director, Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation writes "Adding a disability lens to our grantmaking enriches and expands the good work we already do. It respects the diversity that disability brings as an everyday part...
Supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dance/NYC Launches Immigrant Artists Initiative
Release Date:
02/27/2018
Dance/NYC announced the launch of a new initiative to extend the role of dance artistry in fostering the inclusion, integration, and human rights of the more than 3 million immigrants in the New York City metropolitan area, while shaping urgent...
Salesforce.org And United Way Are Teaming Up To Change Corporate Giving
Release Date:
02/27/2018
A new app called Philanthropy Cloud, built by Salesforce.org (the nonprofit arm of Salesforce) and distributed by mega-charity the United Way aims to connect employees of big companies to their corporate-matched donations, and offer a platform to...
JPMorgan Chase Strengthens Its Commitment To Support Urban Entrepreneurs of Color
Release Date:
02/27/2018
Through its $150 million Small Business Forward program, the bank supports women entrepreneurs, veteran-owned small businesses, and entrepreneurs of color.
F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments
Release Date:
02/26/2018
Clara Miller, who has headed the F.B. Heron Foundation for the past three years, wants to take the ultimate impact investing step: to go "all in".
Watch A Behind-The-Scenes Video of the Clean Dream Act Rally From The Brooklyn Community Foundation
Release Date:
02/26/2018
Last December, Brooklyn Community Foundation Brooklyn Youth Fellows traveled to D.C. to rally for the Clean Dream Act. Fellows joined members from our Immigrant Rights Fund grantees Atlas:DIY and the New York Immigration Coalition to show support...
Opioid Crises Takes Center Stage at 13th Annual H.F. Guggenheim Symposium
Release Date:
02/26/2018
The event, sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, brings together cops, prosecutors, journalists like yours truly, academics, public health professionals and others to discuss crime-related trends. The theme this year? “Justice in the...
A Look At Bloomberg's Latest Move on Public Art
Release Date:
02/26/2018
The Public Art Challenge is a part of Mike Bloomberg’s American Cities Initiative, an effort to help U.S. cities generate innovation and advance policy.
Ford, Hilton Foundation, and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability
Release Date:
02/23/2018
Understanding that stable homes provide an important platform for individual success and thriving communities, nine of the nation’s largest private foundations have joined forces to create the Funders for Housing and Opportunity collaborative, with...
Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism
Release Date:
02/23/2018
Shifman, Executive Director of NoVo Foundation, offers three ways white people in philanthropy can begin to respond to racism.
William Bell of Casey Family Programs on Funding Early Intervention Services to Keep Families Together
Release Date:
02/23/2018
At a Senate committee hearing William Bell, president of Casey Family Programs, said that for every $7 spent on foster care there is only $1 spent on prevention. He said states need the ability to target their existing resources into early...
14
Mar
2018
Indigenous Women Funders Working Group - Launch
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 -
2:00pm to 4:00pm
International Funders for Indigenous Peoples' (IFIP's) Indigenous Women’s Funders Working Group will engage in peer learning, networking, and promote awareness of key issues, planning a path to improve coordination and strategies among funders. The...
New Report Funded by Foundation for Child Development Focuses On Restructuring the Financing of Early Care and Education
Release Date:
02/22/2018
High-quality early care and education (ECE) is critical to positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, but the current financing structure of ECE leaves many children without access to high-quality services and...
Supported By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Scientists Create New Therapeutic Gel That Shows Promise Against Cancerous Tumors
Release Date:
02/22/2018
Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and NC State have created an injectable gel-like scaffold that can hold combination chemo-immunotherapeutic drugs and deliver them locally to tumors in a sequential manner.
In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents
Release Date:
02/22/2018
In direct response to a lawsuit filed by The Century Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education has started to release documents regarding two higher education accrediting agencies with a history of regulatory noncompliance: the Accrediting...
20
Mar
2018
Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Meeting and Understanding Your Fiduciary Responsibilities
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 -
9:00am to 10:30am
Offering a retirement plan can be one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, decisions an employer can make. The employees participating in the plan, their beneficiaries, and the employer, all benefit when a retirement plan is in place.
New Journal From The Russell Sage Foundation Reimagines Approach to Eradicating Poverty
Release Date:
02/21/2018
The proposed policies could help lift 23.3 million people of color out of poverty.
The Issues We’re Taking to the Hill
Release Date:
02/21/2018
Last month, I wrote in this column about Philanthropy New York’s 2018 Policy Slate, which outlines the federal, state and local issues and actions that are top priorities for the year. Now, we’re looking toward Foundations on the Hill, the annual...