Join us for a discussion with the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI), the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) and the Human Services Council (HSC) about an exciting new project to develop a sector-wide career ladder program for 80,000...
Wall Street has recently seen its share of young analysts leave their six-figure salary jobs to join the scrappier worlds of start-ups, nonprofits and even food trucks. A new program for young analysts to compete for donations to a charity of their...
In support of arts-focused efforts to increase public understanding of contemporary Muslim societies, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art has awarded grants to NY-area muesums, theaters and dance groups,
The Center for an Urban Future found a dramatic surge in women entrepreneurs in New York City, showing that the number of women-owned businesses grew four times as fast as male-owned businesses during the past five years.
The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is on track to expand their combined annual degree awards by almost 20 percent, creating 94,000 more graduates over the next 10 years. UIA received $3.85 million in new funding from the Bill & Melinda...
In early April, more than a dozen local women’s organizations will convene in Iraq to share strategies to confront ISIS occupation, sectarian conflict and pervasive gender-based violence, including systematic sexual slavery.
A new United Hospital Fund snapshot report focuses on the Transitional Reinsurance Program, which was created by a provision of the Affordable Care Act and has improved the affordability of coverage for consumers by reducing premiums in the...
City Limits, a non-profit community journalism website, has launched CityPlate, a special section and series covering on food policy in New York City, to increase awareness among community and policymakers alike.
Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, the Institute of Marine Research in Norway, and NOAA, have found that as multiple species of whales feast on herring, they tend to stick with their own kind.
Ned Wight, who has served as Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock for nearly a decade, will retire in July 2016.
City & State announced its 2016 "Above & Beyond" honorees, which is an award recognizing 25 New York women of public and civic mind, including Ana Oliveira of NY Women's Foundation and Molly Williams of Pfizer, Inc.
The Grantmakers for Girls of Color Convening Planning Committee, suppported by the NoVo and Ms. Foundations, will host a national convening of funders to begin an exploration of the challenges facing girls and young women of color and to create a...
Specialty Food Foundation, a community of social entrepreneurs working to break the hunger cycle, is starting the search for the third annual class of grant recipients.
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families will receive $13.8 million from JPMorgan Chase to continue its mission of advancing the post-service lives of transitioning service members, veterans and their families.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the two largest funders of humanities research in the United States, announced a new joint fellowship opportunity to support high-quality “born digital” research in...
Join us for an online OVEE screening featuring clips and conversation from Who is Dayani Cristal?, one of the five powerful films selected for our 2015 Media Impact Festival.
Different groups of neurons program biological clocks to orchestrate our behaviors by sending messages in a unidirectional manner downstream, a team of biologists has found.
The Affordable Care Act is supposed to help low-income individuals, by offering subsidies to purchase private health insurance to those who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. But immigrants are not entitled to federal subsidies. About 5,500...