Site Search

The Rockefeller Foundation

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment

Release Date:

08/31/2017

Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment Mayor de Blasio signed into law a package of 18 bills aimed at protecting tenants whose ... who owe the Department of Buildings more...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

A Top State Education Policymaker Benefited From Integration. Now, He Wants To Bring It Back.

Release Date:

09/06/2017

A Top State Education Policymaker Benefited From Integration. Now, He Wants To Bring It Back. If Vice Chancellor Andrew Brown had been born a few years earlier, his schooling — and possibly his...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Education

New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools

Release Date:

09/20/2017

New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional ... schools, meaning they are gone for more than 10 days in...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Education

De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless

Release Date:

10/13/2017

De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the ... advance notice when it rents out an entire hotel to use as a homeless shelter. "It really depends on whether...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

Live Now From The Century Foundation: Diversity Matters: Getting Public School Choice Right

Release Date:

05/15/2018

Tune into the webcast throughout the day to hear from speakers including former secretary of education John ... , TCF experts, student activists, and school leaders from across the country. And share your...

Find More By

News type

Video

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

Riverside Park Conservancy Receives Grant for Park Management Technology from Booth Ferris Foundation

Release Date:

08/08/2019

... Conservancy Receives Grant for Park Management Technology from Booth Ferris Foundation The Riverside Park Conservancy has received a $200,000 grant from the Booth Ferris Foundation for park...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

Booth Ferris Foundation

Nonprofit Community Health Clinics Receive $1.9 Million in Grants From Hartford Foundation

Release Date:

05/27/2013

The grants were awarded using funds from the Corporation for National and Community Service 039 ;s ... and ineffectively treated health conditions - the John A . Hartford Foundation, an...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Health

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Among Funders Backing Environmental Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

Release Date:

11/30/2017

... Foundation Among Funders Backing Environmental Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds Philanthropy and environmentalism ... one influential report as “lackluster.” But there is a set of foundations and nonprofits...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Fair Health Launches New Healthcare Portal YouCanPlanForThis.Org with Support From the New York State Health Foundation

Release Date:

02/07/2018

... New Healthcare Portal YouCanPlanForThis.Org with Support From the New York State Health Foundation Men and women of ... age groups have been visiting YouCanPlanForThis.org , a free website created by...

Find More By

News type

New York Health Foundation

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Granddaughter of NASA "Hidden Figure," Duchess Harris, shares story of Miriam Mann

Release Date:

03/06/2018

From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Granddaughter of NASA ... Miriam Mann, one of NASA 039 ;s earliest "hidden figures." From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Granddaughter of NASA .....

Find More By

News type

Video

Funding Area

Science

Related Organizations

Sesame Workshop Receives Groundbreaking Gift from Peter G. Peterson to Expand Community Initiative

Release Date:

06/07/2018

Sesame Workshop Receives Groundbreaking Gift from Peter G. Peterson to Expand Community Initiative Sesame Workshop has announced a $20 million gift in support of efforts to help caregivers and...

Find More By

News type

Children, Youth and Families

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Peter G. Peterson Foundation

ASPCA Assists in Removing More Than 600 Birds from Ohio Hoarding Case

Release Date:

08/15/2018

ASPCA Assists in Removing More Than 600 Birds from Ohio Hoarding Case At the request of Columbus Humane, ... 1,000 square-foot home in Columbus, Ohio, where a search warrant was...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Animal Welfare

Related Organizations

ASPCA

Funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Launches Chicago Music Pathway Initiative to Diversify the Next Generation of Musicians

Release Date:

10/25/2018

Funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Launches Chicago Music ... of Musicians The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced a $3.5 million grant to seven Chicago area music ... underrepresented backgrounds and...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Arts

Related Organizations

UCLA to Establish Archive on Policing and Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles with Support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Release Date:

01/28/2021

... to Establish Archive on Policing and Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation UCLA scholars are ... The effort will collect, digitize and preserve a...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Social Justice

Related Organizations

Funders For Justice Launch New Funder Toolkit — Divest/Invest: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities

Release Date:

09/19/2018

... For Justice Launch New Funder Toolkit — Divest/Invest: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities "Funders for ... funders because we believe that our collective investments in housing, education,...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Related Organizations

NoVo Foundation

TCC Group

Ford Foundation

With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch the Plant Humanities Initiative

Release Date:

11/13/2018

With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and ... Initiative Quinine (Scientific name: Cinchona) is a plant that has influenced the course of human history. Used ... for fevers, Cinchona...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Science

Related Organizations

The Annie E. Casey Foundation Shares New Policy Brief on Supporting Youth and Young Adults Transition From Foster Care

Release Date:

09/23/2021

... Brief on Supporting Youth and Young Adults Transition From Foster Care With a national moratorium on youth aging out of foster care ... Change: Policy Reforms to Equip Youth and Young Adults in...

Find More By

News type

Children, Youth and Families

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

McConnell Says Wife Won't Resign From Bloomberg Over Coal Policy Stance

Release Date:

08/14/2014

McConnell Says Wife Won 039 ;t Resign From Bloomberg Over Coal Policy Stance Senate Minority ... the foundation 039 ;s support for efforts to reduce coal use in the U.S...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

With Support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Opera Philadelphia Appoints Rene Orth as Composer-in-Residence

Release Date:

06/17/2016

With Support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Opera Philadelphia Appoints Rene Orth as Composer- in -Residence In collaboration with New York’s ... America), was chosen for the three-season...

Find More By

News type