Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Discusses the Difficulties of Evaluation
Release Date:
03/17/2015
... and opportunities. One size does not fit all. But over the years, we have made some general observations and ...
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White House Debuts $240 Million in New STEM Commitments
Release Date:
03/24/2015
White House Debuts $240 Million in New STEM Commitments President Obama debuted more than $240 million in new STEM commitments this week at the fifth annual White ... President's "Educate to Innovate...
Rockefeller Foundation Pledges $75 Million for Smart Power India Project
Release Date:
04/16/2015
... based mini-grids not just to light up 1,000 villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, but also create new jobs by ... and many such systems have come up across the country over the last five years.... Rockefeller...
Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative
Release Date:
05/20/2015
... Seattle will receive support to adopt leading practices in community engagement through the City Accelerator, a $3 million initiative to advance innovation in local government. Over the next...
Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing Virtual Labor Organizing
Release Date:
06/10/2015
... individual and family wealth—worth up to $1.5 million in additional earnings over a lifetime—however the process of joining can be clunky, contentious, and confusing. In a new report out...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Public Arts Challenge Winners
Release Date:
06/29/2015
... which is planning art installations on public spaces in five targeted neighborhoods with the aim of building on an ... project to illuminate up to three hundred vacant homes over several months and hold a...
Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow
Release Date:
10/07/2015
... work has been foundational to racial justice movements over the past two decades. Her best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness , has spurred debate and action...
The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times
Release Date:
10/13/2015
The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times When the Obama administration agreed this ... Colleges, a for-profit school that filed for bankruptcy in the face of charges of widespread...
Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification
Release Date:
03/03/2016
... on Gentrification There Goes the Neighborhood takes an in -depth look at gentrification in Brooklyn and the integral role that race plays in the process. Developers from all over...
Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages
Release Date:
04/06/2016
... and Bandages Today, nurses play multidimensional roles in countless infrastructures; we have become an extremely ... adoption of an expansive worldview. Globally, we are well over 19 million strong and are the...
New York Community Trust Helps Mexican Students with Resident-Led Advocacy and Organizing
Release Date:
04/28/2016
... Students with Resident-Led Advocacy and Organizing For over two decades, community organizing has been a central tool in the New York Community Trust’s strategy to improve the accessibility and quality of...
Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments On Colleges Still Giving Preference to Legacy Students
Release Date:
05/02/2016
... sort of family connection to the school with an advantage in the college admissions process. Most schools that ... that each legacy application gets at least a second read- over — but some colleges will go as...
UJA-Federation of NY CEO Gives Tips on Teaching Youth about the Holocaust
Release Date:
05/04/2016
... when pictures emerged last month of partying teens in New Jersey engaging in a shocking beer pong game called “Jews versus Nazis” ... of David on the other. On the brighter side, the uproar over...
NYS Health Foundation Leads to Financially Sustainable Care Model For Resettled Refugees
Release Date:
05/05/2016
... Refugees Currently, 97 percent of refugees resettling in New York State are located upstate, particularly the ... barriers—that make it difficult to access health care. Over the past decade, this influx of...
Carnegie Corporation Names Robert Rosenthal Director of Information Technology
Release Date:
08/01/2016
... Director of Information Technology Rosenthal brings over 30 years of experience in information management and systems, having worked in a range of industries, including banking, newspaper ...
Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth
Release Date:
09/23/2016
... Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth As more Latinos enroll in college, the number of Latinos going into the ... is not keeping pace, according to a recent Excelencia in Education analysis of federal data...
Tiffany & Co. Supports Ocean Conservation
Release Date:
09/26/2016
... Anisa Kamadoli Costa, are two names that show up all over marine conservation efforts. We unpack this luxury ... Among foundations like Packard, Moore and Walton that were in the mix at the most recent Our...
Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative
Release Date:
10/13/2016
Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative The Wallace Foundation has selected seven ... and their state and district partners to participate in a new $47-million initiative to develop...
U.S. Trust Study Finds that Wealthy Individuals Give and Volunteer at Higher Rates
Release Date:
10/28/2016
... who volunteer, 60 percent plan to volunteer as much over the next three years and 30 percent plan to volunteer ... percent of those who did not volunteer last year plan to in the future... U.S. Trust Study...
Century Foundation Releases Report on Finding Common Ground on International Tax Reform
Release Date:
11/17/2016
... States' international tax system is broken. As a result, over $2.5 trillion in profits from U.S. companies are sitting overseas untaxed .....