Senators Revise Health Bill in Last-Ditch Effort to Win Votes
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... Votes With time running short, the authors of the latest plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act shifted ...
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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness
Release Date:
09/25/2017
It’s worth wondering what else seeps into public space — not the least of which seems to be a taste for order.
7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week
Release Date:
09/25/2017
No single story can encapsulate one of the most frenetic and wide-ranging weeks on the global development calendar.
How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers
Release Date:
09/27/2017
Obamacare repeal is dead, again. But the months of Republican attacks on the health law will still have consequences for some consumers.
Kathy Halbreich of MoMA to Lead Rauschenberg Foundation
Release Date:
09/28/2017
MOMA's Kathy Halbreich has decided to leave the museum to head the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Manhattan as its new executive director.
Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts
Release Date:
10/03/2017
Skepticism abounded when Phillip Morris International announced it would fund and help set up a new body called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The tobacco giant plans to donate about $80 million a year for 12 years to this new organization...
Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... Politico reported yesterday on a “little-noticed” plan by Trump’s USDA to shift international food safety ...
New York’s Graduation Rate Could Drop Under New Federal Education Law
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... Department is currently reviewing New York’s ESSA plan . It’s unclear how the federal agency will enforce the ...
Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs
Release Date:
10/06/2017
The study explores the efforts of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), a federation of more than 4,000 clubhouses around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’s Youth Arts Initiative.
No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... successful. Nearly two years later, not a single state’s plan to comply with the federal education law—and its ...
NYC Will Miss a Deadline to Accommodate 5 New Charter Schools
Release Date:
10/13/2017
New York City’s Department of Education said on Thursday that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November.
City to Expand 3-K Program to 6 New Neighborhoods
Release Date:
10/13/2017
City Hall on Thursday announced plans to expand its pre-K education program for 3-year-olds in six new neighborhoods over the next three years.
The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy
Release Date:
10/30/2017
After Superstorm Sandy, Rebuild by Design — a design competition from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Rockefeller Foundation — launched a project for cities and towns affected by the storm and residents to come up with...
The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste
Release Date:
11/14/2017
Today, World Wildlife Fund and the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, unveil results from a set of projects demonstrating innovative strategies aimed at reducing food waste in the hotel...
OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros
Release Date:
11/27/2017
... voters whether they supported what it called the "Soros Plan " — including the resettlement of "at least a million .....
The Commonwealth Fund Supports Tool to Encourage Patient Contribution to Clinical Notes
Release Date:
12/08/2017
Funded by The Commonwealth Fund, OurNotes is an extension of the nationwide OpenNotes, a movement to offer patients ready, online access to their clinicians’ visit notes. Currently, more than 20 million patients across the country have electronic...
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Partners with Lumina Foundation to Address Racism on College Campuses
Release Date:
12/11/2017
The Lumina Foundation has announced grants totaling $2.5 million in support of community-building efforts designed to promote understanding, tolerance, and healing on college and university campuses. The foundation also will partner with Rockefeller...
Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”
Release Date:
12/20/2017
In an interview with the Funder’s Forum, Wallace Foundation President Will Miller explains the “unified approach” that underlies the foundation’s initiatives and describes how a focus on continuous improvement fits into this.
How Salesforce is Innovating Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Giving
Release Date:
03/09/2018
... out the next stage in its compassionate capitalism game plan . Dubbed Philanthropy Cloud, it’s a “social giving ...
Teagle Foundation Names Andrew Delbanco Next President
Release Date:
03/22/2018
... War, to be published by Penguin Press. Delbanco does not plan to leave Columbia, but to teach on a reduced schedule. ...