Ford Foundation Webcast: Inclusive Growth in Cities Campaign
Release Date:
03/28/2016
The Ford Foundation is hosting a live webcast Tuesday, March 29, marking the launch of its Inclusive Growth in Cities campaign.
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How Mobile Games Can Help You Identify Your Next Great Employee (Rockefeller Foundation)
Release Date:
03/28/2016
Using games to discover hidden potential and to match talent with jobs is quickly gaining traction in the workplace as a powerful tool to engage, identify, hire, develop, deploy, and retain the best business talent, wrtie Abigail Carlton, Associate...
Revson Foundation Supports Steinem Program to Address Underrepresentation of Women In Media & Technology
Release Date:
03/28/2016
The nine-month pilot program, which organizers hope to extend, is funded by a $35,000 grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation and addresses the underrepresentation of women and minorities in leadership, production and creative roles across all...
Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results
Release Date:
03/28/2016
A program to increase the vocabulary of poor children in Rhode Island, using technology to count every word spoken, is not achieving results expected. But whether the pioneering program is a national model or just an interesting concept hasn't been...
NYS Health Foundation Report: Hospital Mergers Lead to Higher Prices in NY
Release Date:
03/25/2016
Hospital mergers in New York typically result in higher prices, with little improvement in quality, according to a new Manhattan Institute report, sponsored by the New York State Health Foundation.
UHF: A New Arena For Reducing Antibiotic Misuse: Outpatient Care
Release Date:
03/25/2016
Antibiotic resistance related to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics has emerged as a growing public health concern, with at least 2 million people infected with resistant bacteria each year. That’s why United Hospital Fund (UHF) has launched the...
Microsoft Joins Bloomberg, JPMorgan & Others in Supporting Smithsonian's Museum of African American History
Release Date:
03/25/2016
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens this fall after five years of construction, is gaining backing from a wide array of donors.
Mellon Foundation Awards Guggenheim $3M Endowment For Conservation
Release Date:
03/25/2016
The Guggenheim Museum’s conservation department has received a $3 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its conservation efforts. The grant will endow a position of deputy director and chief conservator and a new...
Rockefeller Family Fund Divests from Fossil Fuels and Exxon
Release Date:
03/24/2016
In a letter posted on its website, the Rockefeller Family Fund announced that it would divest from fossil fuels “as quickly as possible,” eliminating its holdings in ExxonMobil Corp., which it called “morally reprehensible.”
Josiah Macy Foundation Supports New Education & Training Programs to Foster Compassionate, Collaborative Healthcare
Release Date:
03/24/2016
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare announced the launch of two comprehensive educational offerings informed by the compassionate, collaborative care - "The Triple C" - framework, a new interdisciplinary model focused on improving...
Carnegie: Nuclear Material Isn’t Secure Enough
Release Date:
03/24/2016
How can we defeat complacency in protecting nuclear materials? First, we must have a culture committed to continuous improvement, says Carnegie in a series of articles about issues related to the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., on...
Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court
Release Date:
03/23/2016
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is asking the Florida state Supreme Court to take up a dispute about $24.6 million in fees awarded to trustees who managed the assets of artist Robert Rauschenberg after he died in 2008.
NYS Health Foundation Launches Consumer Empowerment Initiative, Seeks Proposals
Release Date:
03/23/2016
The New York State Health Foundation launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) for its newest priority area: Empowering Health Care Consumers.
NoVo Foundation Announces $90M Investment in Girls & Young Women of Color Across the U.S.
Release Date:
03/23/2016
The NoVo Foundation announced a seven-year, $90 million commitment to support and deepen the movement for girls and young women of color in the United States. The funds will support grassroots programming and advocacy, as well as national-level...
Commonwealth Research Cited by NYTimes on Reducing Bounce Between Health Plans
Release Date:
03/23/2016
Millions of Americans are finding Obamacare to be unstable ground. An analysis by the Commonwealth Fund found that offering 12 months of continuous Medicaid eligibility would reduce churning by 30 percent.
Westchester Community Foundation Disbursed Millions in 2016
Release Date:
03/22/2016
The Westchester Community Foundation, one of the largest funders of nonprofits in Westchester, started 2016 with a new website, updated strategies, and a refreshed mission: “Bringing philanthropic legacies to life. Transforming our communities.”
Carnegie Supports New American Academy Of Arts & Sciences Report On The Public Good Of Public Research Universities
Release Date:
03/22/2016
Public research universities are anchors of stability and growth in their regions—vital to economic development and the creative economy. This is among the findings in "Public Research Universities: Serving the Public Good," a new publication...
Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post
Release Date:
03/22/2016
Baz Dreisinger’s intriguing new book, “Incarceration Nations,” describes countries where prisons are small, typically housing fewer than 50 people and some fewer than 10, and prisoners are close to their families and communities. This begs the...
Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College
Release Date:
03/22/2016
A national research center focused on interactions between the police and the communities they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college’s first endowed professor as its director.
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2016
Strategy, Struggle and Participation: Three Questions to Improve Your Social-Change Stories
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Storytelling helps social-change groups do better at everything that they do—enlist members, raise funds, take the pulse of their communities, change policy and behavior.