New York Community Trust Announces 2017 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Finalists
Release Date:
10/10/2017
Six nonprofit groups from across the city have been chosen as finalists for The New York Community Trust 2017 Nonprofit Excellence Awards
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Weinberg Foundation Selects New Trustee, Paula Pretlow
Release Date:
10/10/2017
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is pleased to announce that its newest trustee, Paula Pretlow, was approved unanimously by the Board of Directors on September 27, 2017 and will begin her term on January 1, 2018.
Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs
Release Date:
10/06/2017
The study explores the efforts of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), a federation of more than 4,000 clubhouses around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’s Youth Arts Initiative.
MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being
Release Date:
10/06/2017
MetLife Foundation supports Common Cents Lab, a financial research lab at Duke University that collaborates with chosen financial services providers to custom design, test, and launch new features and products that aim to increase financial well-...
Johnson & Johnson Brings Better Sanitation to Homes in India
Release Date:
10/06/2017
Johnson & Johnson's CaringCrowd's platform is dedicated to crowdfunding to improve global public health. Its latest project will introduce sanitation facilities to improve the health of families with young children.
Mike Bloomberg Offers to 'Match Every Donation' to Fight Gun Violence
Release Date:
10/05/2017
On Wednesday afternoon, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg took to Twitter to announce that he will match donations given to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization that advocates for gun control that he founded in 2014.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards $26 Million in Grants
Release Date:
10/05/2017
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in Agoura Hills, California, has announced fourteen third-quarter grants totaling $26 millio n.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria
Release Date:
10/05/2017
Two new strategies show promise in battling malaria, a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, mostly children ages five and under in sub-Saharan Africa.Both new strategies involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria...
Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/05/2017
The once sleepy world of corporate philanthropy has been perking up lately. An older model of giving—which often involved cutting lots of checks to local charities without asking many questions—is giving way to a more focused and strategic approach...
14
Nov
2017
New Ways to Think About Evaluation
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 -
9:00am to 11:00am
While evaluation seems like work that requires more resources (dollars and staff) than you have, foundations of all sizes – especially small-staffed ones – can position themselves for successful evaluation of their impact.
Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Cofounder and former Executive Director of Young Invincibles Jen Mishory and Skadden Fellow and attorney Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation, a leading progressive public policy think tank with offices in New York and Washington, D.C.
Tow Foundation Funded News Integrity Initiative Awards $1.8 Million to Build Support for Quality Journalism
Release Date:
10/04/2017
The News Integrity Initiative at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism announced $1.8 million in grants that aim to improve people’s lives by fostering trust between newsrooms and the public and nurturing constructive, inclusive community...
New York State Health Foundation releases new data snapshot "Health Care Spending Trends in New York State"
Release Date:
10/04/2017
New York's health care spending overall and per capita are among the highest in the nation. Health care expenditures were the second highest in the country, totaling $193 billion in 2014, up from $165 billion in 2009. A new data snapshot from...
United Hospital Fund Recognizes Four New Yorkers For Their Leadership to Improve Health and Health Care
Release Date:
10/04/2017
United Hospital Fund paid tribute tonight at its annual gala to leaders in philanthropy, banking, and health care—James H. Simons, PhD, Priscilla Almodovar, Robert Gore, MD, and James R. Tallon, Jr.—in recognition of their important contributions to...
It’s OK to Pause and Think. In Fact, Please Do.
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Day after day, month after month, crisis upon crisis comes. Just last month, I used this space to talk with you about what has been learned over the years from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy that could be applied to Harvey. This month we must face...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Our Compelling Interests
Release Date:
10/03/2017
In this video, Our Compelling Interests series co-editors Nancy Cantor and Earl Lewis ask: What is at stake if America does not embrace diversity?
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Nov
2017
From There to Here: Adapting Global Solutions to American Problems
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Could the solutions to some of America’s most vexing social issues originate in a faraway land? Although social challenges in education, health, youth engagement, and community development play out differently in locations and contexts across the...
Century Foundation President's Commentary Explains Why Teachers Deserve a Break on Student Debt
Release Date:
10/03/2017
Yes, it's expensive. And Trump wants to eliminate the program. But helping public sector workers with their student loans is the right thing to do.
Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project
Release Date:
10/03/2017
The Kessler Foundation, of East Hanover, NJ, has just awarded Reeves-Reed Arboretum a grant for $8,000 towards the completion of the first phase of this ambitious project.
How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation
Release Date:
10/03/2017
The Wallace Foundation’s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: Pathways, Partnerships and Fidelity,” is the latest entry in what the Wallace Foundation itself calls the “field of scale-up studies.”