Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to Launch Iterative Learning Fellowship
Release Date:
07/08/2016
The grant builds on the recent success of the Mellon Foundation-funded Arts@TheCore initiative from 2012.
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Release Date:
07/08/2016
I grew up thinking journalism was just for rich white people. I was mostly right.
United Hospital Fund Analyzes Medicaid Spending On and Service Utilization By Children In New York
Release Date:
07/08/2016
New data brief and chartbook show low cost, low use overall, but point to opportunities to improve the health of enrolled children.
Edwin Gould Foundation Helps Present 2016 Blackboard Awards For Teachers
Release Date:
07/08/2016
Cynthia Rivera Weissblum presented the 2016 Blackboard Awards for Teachers honoring seventeen of the finest teachers from around New York City.
Ford Foundation Appoints Gabrielle Sulzberger to Board of Trustees
Release Date:
07/08/2016
With over 20 years of experience in financial services, Sulzberger brings a valuable perspective to the foundation’s board at a time of visionary change.
Commonwealth Fund Publishes Study on Americans’ Experiences with ACA Marketplace Coverage
Release Date:
07/07/2016
For people with low and moderate incomes, the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits have made premium costs roughly comparable to those paid by people with job-based health insurance.
New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond
Release Date:
07/07/2016
The grant will help communities be better prepared against rising seas, flooding, and other natural disasters.
Mellon Foundation Gives $1.5M To Conserve African Art Collection
Release Date:
07/07/2016
The significant award will help launch VMFA’s newly conceived center for advanced study in art conservation.
04
Aug
2016
South Bronx Learning Tour
Thursday, August 4, 2016 -
9:30am to 3:30pm
Join us for a day of site visits in the South Bronx, a neighborhood that is crafting their own future in innovative and collaborative ways through food.
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.
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.