Impact investing – a field that has seen much growth over the last decade, through a combination of strategic grant making and industry development – is steadily gaining attention and traction.
Erica Dunbar, who grew up in Philadelphia, is one of the more than 700 Mellon Mays PhDs who are not only helping to diversify university faculty in the United States, but who are also contributing groundbreaking scholarship and rising to the highest...
Abraham Paulous, Executive Director of Families for Freedom, tracks the concepts of “citizenship,” “documentation,” and the changing face of immigration throughout American history. He shares his own experience as an Eritrean refugee and his time at...
Nonprofit leaders who attended got to hear from congressional staff, administration officials and other policy experts about what the charitable sector can do to protect charitable giving and educate lawmakers about the critical role of charitable...
From an inherently biased bail process to uniforms designed to fit men’s larger frames, the corrections system fails to consider that when it comes to incarceration, gender matters, write Ana Oliveira, president and CEO of The New York Women’s...
Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Professor and Director of the Tow Knight News Integrity Initiative, speaks on how fake news propagates and spreads and the strategies media should employ to tackle misinformation.
William D. “Bro” Adams, former president of Colby College and past chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is joining the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a senior fellow.
Nearly five years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York to devastating effect, America’s most populated city is still rebuilding in some areas — and, with an office of recovery and resiliency and a city-wide strategy — is looking ahead to how best to...
Melinda Fine introduces the article, "The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity" written with co-authors Jared Raynor, Jessica Mowles, and Deepti Sood from TCC Group.
The New York Women’s Foundation was featured on NBC’s show, “Give“ on Saturday, October 28th. NBC’s Give provides an inside look at the world of philanthropy and highlights the work of small charities that are making a big impact
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has officially launched The Fellowship Initiative (TFI) in Dallas, TX, in collaboration with Big Thought, a local Dallas organization that has been working with young people in the city for many years.
The Rockefeller Foundation aims to connect these underserved citizens to sustainable energy sources through their Smart Power For Rural Development initiative.
Online registration is closed. For last minute registration requests, please email Allyson Goldhagen . Philanthropy New York is excited to announce that our 2018 Young Leaders Breakfast Club will run from March 2018 to December...
Online registration is closed. For last minute registration requests, please email Allyson Goldhagen . Philanthropy New York is excited to announce that our 2018 Young Leaders Breakfast Club will run from March 2018 to December...
A recent report by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, found that Bay Area sheriffs were four to 16 times more likely to book African Americans and Latinos into...
A team of researchers from the University of Houston and Temple University say that food insecurity among college students is forcing a burgeoning inequality in college completion rates.
A new report released yesterday stresses that making it a de facto policy for U.S. cities would be a cost-effective design solution that could save millions, and even billions, of dollars.