Exxon Mobile, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the threat of climate change, is trying to turn the tables by calling its opponents the real conspirators.
Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities (WWC) is a national initiative to help a hundred-plus mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence. The initiative is administered by Results for America (RfA).
With President-elect Donald Trump’s chaotic transition underway, the U.S. foreign policy establishment and the international community have begun contemplating the dangerous uncertainties created by this transition and the potential contours of...
Duke Farms, the 2,700-acre former estate of globe-trotting philanthropist Doris Duke, is one of the largest preserved properties in the state of New Jersey.
Eighty-three percent of wealthy individuals plan to give as much (or more) over the next three years as they have in the past. These percentages are even higher among women, African-Americans and individuals age 50 or younger.
Gisela Alvarez, Esq., Coordinator, Donors’ Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust, says funders who believe in equity and the power of education must support the choir that is preaching about school integration.
The New England Foundation for the Arts released a comprehensive evaluation of the National Dance Project- backed by Mellon & Doris Duke Foundations -and new research about current needs of the dance field.
With the election of Donald Trump, this warning is frighteningly close to becoming reality, as Trump has vowed to implement surveillance policies that “were frankly unthinkable a year ago.” Obama’s last challenge will be to do everything in his...
The PIMCO Foundation has awarded the New York City Mission Society, a two-century-old nonprofit based in Harlem, 25,000 dollars to support its college-readiness program, Learning to Work.
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.
Salk Institute researchers have discovered a holy grail of gene editing-the ability to, for the first time, insert DNA at a target location into the non-dividing cells that make up the majority of adult organs and tissues.
Philanthropy New York would like to thank TCC Group’s Richard Mittenthal for sharing with us this New York Times article from December 14, 1980. The fears were real, just as they are today. Many Philanthropy New York members are mentioned. Well...
As we look at how to improve high school graduation rates and outcomes, we’ve come to realize that instead of addressing a “drop-out” crisis, we have to address our public education system’s biases, policies, and practices that exclude and alienate...
The 2016 presidential campaign made visible the deep and painful divisions in our nation, and the election outcome has left many immigrants and refugees—and second- and third-generation U.S. citizens—living in uncertainty and fear.