Seeking Just & Sustainable Communities: Surdna Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $14 Million
Release Date:
07/26/2017
... communities of color; and $225,000 over three years to the Neighborhood Story Project to create an equitable model for ...
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Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times
Release Date:
11/02/2017
... Theater. Ms. Bioh, 34, grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, the youngest of three siblings in ...
New York Times Op-Ed "Good Leaders Make Good Schools" Cites Important Wallace-Commissioned Research Report
Release Date:
03/13/2018
... demography is not destiny, that bad things happening in a neighborhood do not have to determine student outcomes. How ...
Report Funded by Helmsley Charitable Trust Looks at Human Well-Being in NYC
Release Date:
07/03/2018
... scores for tri-state area cities and towns and for NYC neighborhood clusters, as well as by race and ethnicity, ...
The Culture Pass Initiative Launches in New York City with Support from Stavros Niarchos Foundation, New York Community Trust and Charles H. Revson Foundation
Release Date:
07/18/2018
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), The New York Public Library, and Queens Library launched Culture Pass, a city-wide initiative providing free access to cultural institutions across New York’s five boroughs to the millions of library card holders...
Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program
Release Date:
09/05/2018
To support that activism, and help build a pipeline to develop the leaders of Puerto Rico’s future, the Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce the Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships program, open to Puerto Rican youths age 18–27 with proposed...
Funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Launches Chicago Music Pathway Initiative to Diversify the Next Generation of Musicians
Release Date:
10/25/2018
... at Merit School of Music in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood . Merit, along with the Chicago Youth Symphony ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Increases Investment in Youth Initiatives to $2.8M in 2018
Release Date:
12/14/2018
Brooklyn Community Foundation is pleased to announce support for 71 local organizations through its Invest in Youth initiative, bringing its total funding for youth-focused nonprofit programs to $2.8 million in 2018. This...
Ford Foundation Appoints Maria Torres-Springer As Next Vice President for US Programs
Release Date:
02/01/2019
The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Maria Torres-Springer as its next vice president for US programs. She will join the foundation in May, succeeding Xavier de Souza Briggs, who has served as vice president for five years and...
New York Life Foundation Partners with First Book To Bring Grief Books, Resources to Educators
Release Date:
02/27/2019
The New York Life Foundation today announced a new two-year partnership with First Book, a leading education nonprofit whose mission is to bring high-quality resources to educators serving children in need. The project will seek to increase access...
Pursuit Bonds, Funded by Inherent Foundation, Helps Provide Workforce Training for Disadvantaged New Yorkers
Release Date:
03/15/2019
... in a former zipper factory in Long Island City, the Queens neighborhood where Amazon had intended to locate, to try to ...
Lack of Diversity Hurts Science: Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program Is Changing That
Release Date:
06/10/2019
When the professionals who manage our wild places are not diverse, their decisions may not reflect the larger community’s needs.
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Brings Art to the Public Hospital System
Release Date:
07/19/2019
... care system to re-imagine hospitals and facilitate greater neighborhood wellness that was first started in the 1930s. ...
Leading With Race to Reimagine Youth Justice: JDAI’s Deep-End Initiative - Report Released by The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Release Date:
05/26/2020
This report explores the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Deep-End Initiative, which is helping juvenile justice jurisdictions safely and significantly reduce youth confinement — especially for young people of color.
Joan Mitchell Foundation Adds Finance Veteran Marc Chennault to Its Board
Release Date:
06/23/2020
... by painter and sculptor Tyree Guyton to enhance neighborhood life through art... Joan Mitchell Foundation ...
Reimagining Safety and Justice for Black Life Now and Forever
Release Date:
07/07/2020
... deeply valued her church, neighbors, and friends. In her neighborhood , these were primarily the entities that ... on how to provide safety and justice. People in her neighborhood suffered from a lack of...
Weinberg Foundation Announces Additional $5 Million to Expand and Strengthen Baltimore Library Project
Release Date:
12/10/2020
The Weinberg Foundation today announced an additional $5 million in funding to support the Baltimore Elementary and Middle School Library Project.
Philanthropy New York Calls for Solidarity Amid Ongoing Pressures on the Philanthropic and Nonprofit Sector
Release Date:
10/27/2025
Philanthropic independence protects our ability to act according to our values without fear of political reprisal; interdependence reminds us that our strength lies in relationship and mutual support.
Producers and Speakers: Money and Power in Post-Election America
... The President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She also co-chaired the Center for ... School of Law. Katherine Fulton is a partner of Monitor Group and President of Monitor...
Forty Years of LGBTQ Philanthropy: 1970-2010
Publication date:
01/2012
Published on the occasion of Funders for LGBTQ Issues' 30th anniversary, this report .....