National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project
Release Date:
10/30/2015
... which will provide technical assistance to cities as they develop innovative strategies for families to achieve ...
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Citi Foundation Supports Young Entrepreneur Challenge
Release Date:
11/03/2015
... into the best business plan. Hundreds of students, family members, educators and business leaders gathered on ...
Newman's Own Foundation Awards $1.5 Million in Grants to Military Service Organizations
Release Date:
11/20/2015
Newman's Own is awarding $1.5 million in grants to 29 organizations that provide services to military men, women, veterans, and their families.
Century Foundation Analysis Noted, Poverty in Syracuse Examined
Release Date:
11/20/2015
... the black poor live in high-poverty neighborhoods, defined as areas where 40 percent or more of residents live below the ...
Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’
Release Date:
12/03/2015
... some sustainability-related jobs. She even surprised her family at Thanksgiving this year when she arrived with fresh ... . . The 1-acre plot where Ms. Bennett worked, known as the NYCHA farm at Red Hook, will...
Deutsche Bank Gives USD 1 Million to Address Homelessness in New York City
Release Date:
12/04/2015
... formerly incarcerated individuals and their families – as grantees for its initiative to address homelessness in the ...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Supporting NJ Food Banks
Release Date:
12/07/2015
... partnership provided 413,495 meals to families in need. “ As much as those three food banks do, the need is huge and the ...
Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)
Release Date:
01/06/2016
... should draw on approaches that have helped in the past as well as those that seem promising, especially supportive housing, ... reality: homelessness is a chronic New York problem, as we can...
When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)
Release Date:
02/29/2016
... programs intended to make their schools more diverse. As a new pair of reports from the progressive Century ... the busing battles of the past. These programs rely on family income, not race, as...
Century Foundation Report: The Real Price of College
Release Date:
03/15/2016
... implications for educational opportunities, student and family pocketbooks, and the economy. Some people caution ... availability of financial aid means that college is not as expensive as...
Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post
Release Date:
03/22/2016
... home and often say things like: “There is no such thing as good guys and bad guys. All people do good and bad things, ... asked, “Is Britain another planet?” Norway might as well be another galaxy, considering...
Commonwealth Research Cited by NYTimes on Reducing Bounce Between Health Plans
Release Date:
03/23/2016
... during the winter. His income drops slightly, and now his family no longer qualifies for financial assistance through ... providers and insurance plans rack up administrative costs as they accommodate these...
Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results
Release Date:
03/28/2016
A program to increase the vocabulary of poor children in Rhode Island, using technology to count every word spoken, is not achieving results expected. But whether the pioneering program is a national model or just an interesting concept hasn't been...
Cuban-American Artist Garcia Ferraz Exhibits Latest Works Supported by Ford Foundation Grant in Media Arts
Release Date:
04/14/2016
... small gallery accessible through the space (formerly known as Project Space 1785) features “Six Men, Two Women, Eight ... the exhibition includes works by artists who trace their family histories and personal...
U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance
Release Date:
05/31/2016
While there are distinct differences between younger and older owners, entrepreneurs of all ages share a strong desire to control their own destiny.
Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... Foundation. Four other charities with links to the Buffett family will share the rest: Buffett's education-focused .....
Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... of white Americans told Gallup that black children had as good a chance as white kids of getting a good education. The next year, in ... In 1963, 45 percent said that they would object if a family...
Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... Plus, empirical studies show that, when controlling for family wealth, there is no significant evidence of a causal ...
Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed
Release Date:
11/11/2016
... candidate whom members of his own party described as a classic authoritarian. How is it possible that tens of ...
Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity
Release Date:
02/27/2017
... in the context of newly defined gender identities, and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through ... how feminism in its many forms has changed the world as we know it... Shelley &...