Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing
Release Date:
10/13/2017
Ford Foundation supports an experimental rating process aimed to hold large fund managers acuntable for delivering on wide range of impacts.
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New Video From TCC Group: The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity
Release Date:
10/13/2017
Melinda Fine introduces the article, "The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity" written with co-authors Jared Raynor, Jessica Mowles, and Deepti Sood from TCC Group.
Milbank Memorial Fund Issues Report on State Population Health Strategies
Release Date:
10/13/2017
The report analyzes three prominent state health scorecards to identify states that had significant, sustained improvements—verified in several of the scorecards—in one or more key population health outcome measures.
Simons Foundation Genomic Database Tool Used in Breakthrough Autism Study
Release Date:
10/13/2017
In the new study, researchers used a huge genomic database created by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative to compare the genomes of 516 individuals who had simplex autism with the genomes of their parents and one sibling who was not...
The Tinker Foundation Announces Next President, Caroline Boyd Kronley
Release Date:
10/12/2017
The Tinker Foundation is pleased to announce that Caroline Boyd Kronley will succeed Renate Rennie as its next President.
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Grantee Brings Star Tortoise Back From Extinction
Release Date:
10/12/2017
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Grantee Brings Star Tortoise Back From Extinction YANGON, MYANMAR (October 11, 2017) – The Burmese star tortoise (Geochelone platynota ), a medium-sized tortoise found only in...
Bloomberg Commits $64 Million to Beyond Coal Campaign
Release Date:
10/12/2017
Bloomberg Commits $64 Million to Beyond Coal Campaign A day after the Trump administration formally announced its plans to rescind the Clean Power Plan, Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $64 million commitment to the Sierra...
NYSHealth Selects Seven Hospitals to Receive Grant Funds to Implement OpenNotes
Release Date:
10/12/2017
NYSHealth Selects Seven Hospitals to Receive Grant Funds to Implement OpenNotes The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) has selected seven hospitals across the State for grant awards totaling nearly $900,000 to help them...
Hilton Humanitarian Prize Calls Attention To Growing Need For Global Humanitarian Aid
Release Date:
10/12/2017
The critical component of any group anywhere in the world winning the Hilton Humanitarian Prize is that it must have made “extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering,” often at great risk and hardship to the organization’s...
Arabella Advisors Produces Issue Brief On How Donors Can Support Women’s Mental Health
Release Date:
10/11/2017
The Hope & Grace Fund recently hired Arabella Advisors to conduct independent research into opportunities in women’s mental health and produce an issue brief on how to support women’s mental health and wellbeing.
Ms. Foundation Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Changes to Obama Era Contraceptive Rules
Release Date:
10/11/2017
Ms. Foundation for Women President and CEO Teresa C. Younger released a statement in response to the Trump Administration’s decision to roll back Obama Administration requirements for employer-covered contraceptives.
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Dec
2017
New York City Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting and the City of New York’s Workforce Strategy
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Public funding of the workforce system has declined significantly over the past twenty years. Further reductions for the Workforce Investment Opportunity Act (WIOA) are anticipated in next year and in future years.
Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing
Release Date:
10/10/2017
How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing
Rockefeller Foundation Research Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children
Release Date:
10/10/2017
A University of Vermont-led study of 300,000 children in 35 nations says kids whose watersheds have greater tree cover are less likely to experience diarrheal disease, the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five.
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Nov
2017
Protecting Our Precious Waters: New York City’s Impacts on the Long Island Sound and the Hudson River Estuary
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
What are New York City’s impacts on the health of its waterways and the Long Island Sound? How do combined sewer overflows present complex challenges with community development and environmental justice dimensions?
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
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.