How Institutions Take Risks
Release Date:
10/12/2014
... its current president, Judith Rodin, to learn more about philanthropies, risk, and the links between risk-taking ...
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At Age 100, Rockefeller Targets Africa's Growing Cities
Release Date:
10/15/2014
... cities with the ability to be resilient. When we talk about resilience, it's not just in the face of natural .....
Arcus Foundation Launches New Website
Release Date:
10/21/2014
... site provides quick and customized access to information about grants and application procedures, Arcus events, and ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College
Release Date:
10/28/2014
... goal for which it can be held accountable. Today, only about one in three top-performing students from the bottom ...
PNY Members Funding LGBT Senior Care
Release Date:
10/30/2014
... locked onto this issue for a while now. Recently, I wrote about what the New York Community Trust was doing to help ...
United Hospital Fund Produces User-Friendly Data Sets to Advance Population Health in New York
Release Date:
11/07/2014
... “We created these data sets to fill a void we’ve heard about time and again recently, especially from stakeholders ...
Ten Librarians Honored by Carnegie for Outstanding Public Service
Release Date:
12/03/2014
... submitted nominations. The nominations detailed stories about how local librarians made a meaningful difference in ...
Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities
Release Date:
12/10/2014
... what seems to be a shift in the way Americans are thinking about high-speed Internet access: the idea that cities will ...
From Katrina to the “Next Sandy”: Disaster Preparedness, Relief and Recovery for Older Adults
Release Date:
04/04/2013
... I moderated the session and opened with comments about vulnerability in disasters. Vulnerability, when ... and summarized current discussions in City government about how response and recovery systems should...
The Art of Inclusion: New York Funders Mobilize to Make the Arts More Accessible
Release Date:
05/03/2012
... water cooler on a Monday morning to share their excitement about the latest blockbuster exhibition at the local art ... City. DFN believes too many funders are stuck thinking about people with disabilities as...
The Haitian Earthquake: Response, Relief & Recovery
Release Date:
01/14/2010
... your foundation is doing—please send us information about your support for Haiti. The Haitian Earthquake: ...
Rita Allen Foundation Backs Innovative Biomedical Research
Release Date:
01/27/2015
... foundation that spawned it isn’t solely or even mostly about medical research. It’s a civic engagement foundation, ...
OMB Uniform Guidance Could Help Prevent Nonprofit Banckrupcies
Release Date:
03/13/2015
$0.88 of Every $1 for Programs: That’s Nothing to Brag About ! The New York nonprofit sector was shaken recently with ...
UJA Federation Charities Scramble to Address FEGS Closure
Release Date:
03/16/2015
... programs—but also political, raising questions about how a host of well-connected directors, regulatory ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing
Release Date:
03/19/2015
... all fossil-fuel investments. The decision was not just about a family moving away from its legacy but a sign of a ...
How Bloomberg is Still Changing the Way Cities Operate
Release Date:
03/30/2015
... for new restaurants by 33 percent. Louisville redirected about a quarter of its low-severity 911 calls away from ...
Atlantic Awards $14.8 Million to Transform the U. S. Health Care System
Release Date:
04/06/2015
... devoted to teaching, learning, and disseminating knowledge about health system transformation. To that end, the center ...
Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017
Release Date:
04/10/2015
... in the next two years. Coal plants are responsible for about 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, which ...
Wallace Foundation Launches 'Building New Audiences for Sustainability' Initiative
Release Date:
04/16/2015
... and there’s a lot of conventional wisdom out there about the reasons why. A frequent scapegoat is the lack of ...
Children Learn How to Save Lives at ZAC Camp
Release Date:
04/17/2015
... engine and ambulance to remove any fear they might have about emergency responders. All was done through The ZAC ...