The Ford Foundation has announced the election of Lourdes Lopez to serve as a member of its Board of Trustees. Lopez will be the first artist to join the foundation’s Board of Trustees. Lopez is the artistic director of Miami City Ballet and...
In October of 2012, Philanthropy New York launched its CEO Interview Series, a set of intimate, engaging, and, thought-provoking conversations with relatively newly appointed CEOs on the future of philanthropy. Appointed in 2011, Will Miller...
An estimated 1.8 million New Yorkers do not have high school diplomas. Until December 31, 2013, the only way for these individuals to get vocational training, entry-level jobs, or enroll in college was to pass the General Education Development (GED...
Andrea G. Cohen joined the United Hospital Fund as its new Senior Vice President for Program. An attorney with extensive legal and policy experience in the health care world, Cohen comes to the Fund from the Office of the New York City Mayor, where...
John E. Craig, Jr., The Commonwealth Fund's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, has announced he will retire at the end of 2014, after 33 years at the Fund. Since joining the foundation in 1981, he has served as vice president and...
LaVerne Evans Srinivasan, an expert on employing talent strategies to strengthen urban education, has joined Carnegie Corporation of New York as Program Director for Teaching and Human Capital Management. Srinivasan will oversee the Corporation’s...
This Quarterly Meeting of the New York City Workforce Funders will feature a presentation from Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen on the de Blasio Administration’s Workforce Development Strategy and a panel of national experts discussing innovative employer-...
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has named Jonathan D. Hook as its first Chief Investment Officer.
Nancy Wackstein, executive director, United Neighborhood Houses of New York, on why funders should trust nonprofit leaders they already trust to make the best decisions about to spend grant money to advance their organizations' missions.
Samantha Gilbert, a global leader in the field of human resources, has been named the Ford Foundation's first-ever vice president, talent and human resources.