Strategic volunteerism is a critical component of how corporations harness the time and talent of employees at all levels to support nonprofit partners and meet true community needs.
Naturalization may lead to an average increase in individual earnings of 8.9%, or $3,200, in the first year after becoming a U.S. citizen, according to new research. If all eligible immigrants were to naturalize, employment and homeownership rates...
The Rockefeller Foundation's Claudia Juech and Rachel Korberg talk about new researchhighlighting some ways to mitigate birthplace as determinant of life outcomes.
The Disaster Philanthropy Playbook, a comprehensive resource of best practices and innovative approaches to guide the philanthropic community in responding to future disasters, is now available online.
The Community Foundation of New Jersey and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation launched a fund called "Field Trip New Jersey" to support opportunities for students in underserved communities to connect classroom learning with real-life experiences.
Creative Capital awarded grants to artist-activists, who are engaging some of the most significant and hotly debated issues of our time. Projects receiving funding span a wide range of genres and forms.
A large new study reveals previously unknown risk factors associated with an eye condition that causes serious progressive nearsightedness at a relatively young age. The findings, made through the largest-ever clinical study of the condition called...
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announces that Michael Marcus, Program Director, Older Adults Services, will leave the Foundation on February 29, 2016.
Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, issued a statement on the President's State of the Union Address, emphasizing national debt must be included in the discussion of the country's long-term challenges.
Longtime president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, current Senior Fellow in Residence at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Karen Brooks Hopkins becomes Greene Foundation Trustee.
Owner H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest donated the entire Philadelphia Media Network, which runs the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com, to the nonprofit Institute for Journalism in New Media, part of the Philadelphia Foundation. The institute...
Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, writes about the U.S. Supreme Court's potential to weaken public sector labor unions.
The Youth Transition Funders Group updated its seminal Blueprint for Youth Justice Reform -- providing concrete policy recommendations aimed at improving the well-being and life outcomes for at-risk young people.
The American Library Association announced the winners of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction during the ALA Midwinter meeting in Boston.
A crowd of more than 200 people heard Jane Forbes Clark speak Sunday at the National Baseball Hall of Fame about her family's history in and vision for Cooperstown.