Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... added 400 private-sector jobs in August, up 0.1 percent from August 2016. In the Glens Falls metropolitan area, 200 ...
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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace According to a new study coauthored by two Washington, D.C. nonprofit ... Studies, America’s already large racial wealth gap, far from narrowing, will grow ever...
The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough
Release Date:
09/19/2017
The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough From the moment that the first streetcars started rumbling ... can lead to brilliant innovations that change the city as we know it—the subway may be a...
Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... of Refugees Trump administration officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into ... argument made by advocates of deep cuts in refugee...
These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... would create jobs, Google said. Leaving the deal known as the Paris accord would be bad for business, top executives from Bank of America and Coca-Cola argued. When President ... exactly would these 27...
Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla ... Initiative, they took some heat for incorporating it as an LLC—...
Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... median family income in the city had fallen by 5.2 percent from 2008 to 2013, during and after the Great Recession. The ...
NoVo Foundation Featured in Funder Spotlight
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... NoVo Foundation recently announced its Radical Hope Fund, a multi-year commitment to bold and transformative social ... this fund embodies trust-based philanthropy in many ways. As part of our ongoing series...
New Book, "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Carnegie Council Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff
Release Date:
09/20/2017
New Book, "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Carnegie Council Centennial Chair Michael ... What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together...
Warm Up Potential Major Donors Via Digital
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... three-quarters (73 percent) of philanthropic giving comes from individuals and donor pyramids continue to grow steeper to the point that, today, as much as 95 percent of dollars into...
If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... the Senate Finance Committee announced it had reached a bipartisan agreement to extend funding for the national ... years. The announcement, coming after months of pressure from children’s advocacy...
Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... could create health care chaos in the short term and a Balkanized, uncertain insurance market. In the face of the ... Republican leaders nevertheless said they would push for a showdown vote next week on the...
Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... she leads. Instead she has turned to Jeffersonian dinners as a way to engage new supporters. The intimate gatherings bring ... pitching at them, rather than trying to extract something from...
Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth
Release Date:
09/22/2017
Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth In an effort to reduce youth ... of the Pathways to Progress initiative in Canada, led by a Citi Foundation investment of CA$700,000. This...
LDN Fund Officially Launched
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... an initial target size of US$300 million, the LDN Fund is a first-of-its-kind investment vehicle leveraging public ... in close collaboration with Mirova and numerous partners from the public sector, the...
Gates Foundation Pledges $220 Million for Women, Children, Adolescents
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... Nations General Assembly meeting, the commitments include a $200 million pledge to the World Bank's Global Financing ... to help close the estimated funding gap of $33 billion a year. Each dollar invested...
How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... awarded to charities last year. The lion’s share was from high net worth individuals, an estimated 91% of whom donate an average of more than $25,000 a piece to charity each year. But these wealthy donors have...
Making Kids Into “Makers”
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... problem-solving skills by building something to address a problem in their community. In many traditional classroom settings, students do not spend a lot of time honing their problem-solving skills or ... in...
Senators Revise Health Bill in Last-Ditch Effort to Win Votes
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... for an unnamed “high-spending low-density state,” a last-minute change seemingly aimed at Alaska and its ... she would almost certainly vote no. Mr. Cassidy circulated a table on Sunday showing the state-by-...
After So Many Disasters, Nonprofit Relief Organizations Struggle Against ‘Donor Fatigue’
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... Nature’s most recent season of discontent, donations from everyday folks and Fortune 500 companies poured in to ... president and CEO of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, a Washington-based nonprofit group...