In NYTimes, Ford’s Walker on Internships and Inequality
Release Date:
07/06/2016
While many Americans believe fervently and faithfully in expanding opportunity, America’s internship-industrial complex does just the opposite.
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Brings Hope to Ancient Athens Neighborhood
Release Date:
07/06/2016
Hopes for improvement lie with the nearby Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, named after a Greek shipping magnate who died in 1996.
06
Oct
2016
Deep Integration of Community Based Organizations and Schools
Thursday, October 6, 2016 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Join us for this important conversation focusing on successful community/school partnerships and the best strategies for implementing these collaborative ventures. Leaders in the field will discuss how their partnerships were generated and the...
Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Postdoctoral Fellowship Request for Applications Opens
Release Date:
07/05/2016
The collaboration is now inviting applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support independent research on topics related to the origins of life.
Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building
Release Date:
07/05/2016
Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money.
Video: Rockefeller's Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star and Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda
Release Date:
07/05/2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Rockefeller President Judith Rodin to discuss the role of diversity in the arts, economic inclusion, and other topics on the second edition of Insight Dialogues.
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Launched First Program to Accelerate Reforms in Education For Health Professionals
Release Date:
06/30/2016
Rarely do we hear of funders bankrolling innovation of education and curricula for future nurses, doctors and other health workers.
In Time Magazine, Ford’s Walker Says Giving Back Is a Birthright
Release Date:
06/30/2016
Charity–humanity’s most benevolent impulse–is a timeless and borderless virtue, dating at least to the dawn of religious teaching.
Capital One Is A Supporter Of Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program
Release Date:
06/30/2016
Girls Who Code kicked off its 2016 Summer Immersion Program in Chicago and Washington D.C. this week, logging a record number of programs this year.
14
Sep
2016
Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: Career Pathways Report Implementation Update
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 -
9:00am to 11:00am
In November 2014, the de Blasio administration released the "Career Pathways: One City Working Together" report, which adopted the Career Pathways framework and called for a movement away from rapid attachment approach to one that utilized industry...
NYS Health Foundation on the Learning and Listening That Lead to a Multi-Funder Collaboration
Release Date:
06/30/2016
The Supreme Court’s deadlocked decision last week on United States v. Texas leaves millions of immigrants at potential risk for deportation.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform
Release Date:
06/30/2016
A lack of concrete information about student misconduct—and how to address it—may be hindering efforts to make campuses safer.
Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2016 Scholars
Release Date:
06/30/2016
Early-career biomedical researchers to examine the underpinnings of human behavior, cancer and chronic pain.
Youth Leaders are Changing the Conversation on College Access
Release Date:
06/30/2016
Cassie Schwerner of the Schott Foundation writes about "Stepping Up," a film that frames youth leadership and organizing in a profoundly needed way.
Surdna Appoints Shuaib Siddiqui, Director, Mission Related Investing
Release Date:
06/30/2016
Shuaib Siddiqui, an investment professional whose work has focused on addressing global poverty, has been appointed Director, Mission Related Investing.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App
Release Date:
06/29/2016
For the last few years the Brooklyn Museum has been prototyping ways to reach visitors on a more personal level.
Bettina Alonso and Eugene Keilin Elected to United Hospital Fund Board
Release Date:
06/29/2016
Together they bring vast combined experience: Bettina Alonso in philanthropy, non-profit development, and marketing, and Eugene Keilin in private and public sector finance and health care governance.
Carnegie Corporation of New York Honors 42 'Great Immigrants: The Pride of America'
Release Date:
06/29/2016
The annual award of the Carnegie Corporation would be presented to them at an event in New York on June 30.
In WSJ, Commonwealth’s Blumenthal on Making Health Records Mobile
Release Date:
06/29/2016
The simple notion of patients being able to take charge of their own medical records will require economic and cultural changes, as well as technological.
Arcus Foundation Launches Fourth New York Pride Photo Book
Release Date:
06/29/2016
Captures the five-alarm sensory blast that is the NYC Gay Pride March.