Doris Duke Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative
Release Date:
01/24/2017
... do you protect a dwindling species when it’s fled from its changing habitat? Large green groups and funders are ...
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Editorial: States Dare to Think Big on Climate Change
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... state governments to take action on their own. California, as usual, has commanded the headlines on this score, having just strengthened its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Now the ...
Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... author of the report. “It hurts children here, just as it does globally, and we are overdue to tackle it.” . . ...
'We're Trying to Go All In': Chocolate Giant Mars Pledges $1 Billion To Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... brands like M&Ms, Skittles, and Twix on Wednesday launched its "Sustainability in a Generation" plan, aiming to reduce the carbon footprint of its business and supply chain by more than 60% by...
A Deadly Disease Threatens To Regain Ground Deep In The African Jungle
Release Date:
09/14/2017
More than 80 percent of the world’s sleeping sickness cases today occur in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The parasitic disease is fatal if untreated, yet difficult to diagnose early.
The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... leads and given prosecutors ammunition in court. But as the police have gotten more aggressive about collecting ... any laws and little oversight over how they can use it. As the science advances and the size...
Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance — attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data.
Commonwealth Fund Analysis Shows how Disastrous the Medicaid Work Requirement Would be, Given the Opioid Crisis
Release Date:
01/12/2018
... the highest rates of overdose deaths in the country, and its Medicaid spending on prescriptions for opioid use ... Fund. The state predicts that a full 15 percent of its Medicaid beneficiaries will lose their...
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ComNetworkNY: Coffee Klatch With Your Philanthropic Peers
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 -
8:30am to 10:00am
... informal Coffee Klatch, hosted by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Philanthropy New York and ComNetworkNY, the local organizing group of The ... more of your counterparts at philanthropic foundations in...
Finalists Selected for Bloomberg's C40 Cities Awards
Release Date:
10/08/2015
... vehicle leader BYD Company Ltd. Felipe Calderón, former President of Mexico and Chair of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, serves as Chair of the C40 Cities Awards Jury Panel. The winners ...
On Time.com, Carnegie’s Gregorian: Voters Responsible for Protecting Democracy
Release Date:
11/04/2016
... Voters Responsible for Protecting Democracy Carnegie President , Vartan Gregorian, writes about how only committed ... than those faced during earlier times, but liberty, as the history of our nation and many...
Commonwealth Fund Research Cited in NYTimes Fact Check on White House OMB Claim
Release Date:
03/10/2017
... Cited in NYTimes Fact Check on White House OMB Claim President Trump’s spokesman on Wednesday deflected concerns ...
Immigration Arms Race Begins on Capitol Hill
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... lawmakers face in reaching a deal. To get a bill to President Trump’s desk, Republican leaders will have to ...
Mark-Viverito Arrested During DACA Protest At Trump Tower
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito was arrested as part of a protest at Trump Tower Tuesday in defense of ... whose families brought them to the United States as young children. Mark-Viverito was taken...
Republicans Outline Biggest Tax Code Overhaul In A Generation
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... Outline Biggest Tax Code Overhaul In A Generation President Trump and GOP congressional leaders have outlined ...
Podcast: Nonprofit Organizations Fighting for The Affordable Care Act
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... of nonprofit advocacy organizations. Jaron Benjamin, vice president of community mobilization and national advocacy at ...
Obama Environmental Chief Says Trump Rollbacks Won't Wash
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Obama Environmental Chief Says Trump Rollbacks Won't Wash President Barack Obama’s former environment chief bemoaned .....
Milbank Memorial Fund Appoints Tara Strome as Chief Operating Officer
Release Date:
04/28/2021
Milbank Memorial Fund Appoints Tara Strome as Chief Operating Officer Tara Strome, managing editor of ... 2021 after 32 years of service for the Fund, the last 21 as vice president and COO...
Executive Transitions: Grantmakers and Nonprofit Leadership Change
Publication date:
03/2006
... up the transition challenge, engage with boards, support new CEOs, and help grantees use the moment to go in promising new directions. Executive Transitions: Grantmakers and ...
Big Banks Are Too Stingy, Says Watchdog
Release Date:
01/03/2013
... Chase and Wells Fargo is “lackluster,” according to a new report from the National Committee for Responsive ... track record is “lackluster,” according to a new report from the National Committee for...