Building a Movement to Advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Philanthropy
Release Date:
07/25/2013
... it can help institutions at all levels of engagement learn more about effective best practices and policies for ...
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These Days Everyone Can Be A Communicator…But Is That Enough?
Release Date:
01/12/2012
... communicators as digital and social media tools become more prevalent and the role of communications becomes ...
Small Foundations Can Spur Big Changes: One Grant Maker Shows How
Release Date:
03/24/2013
... is a challenge for even the biggest foundations but much more daunting for small ones. Nonetheless, it is possible for ...
Gara LaMarche Named President of The Democracy Alliance
Release Date:
10/18/2013
... and movement leaders committed to a stronger democracy and more progressive America. Gara LaMarche Named President of ...
NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning
Release Date:
01/12/2015
... curiosity, “grit” — these qualities may seem more personal than academic, but at some schools, they’re ... curriculum. Some researchers say personality could be even more important than intelligence when it...
Bank of America Foundation President Seeks to Increase Youth Development Opportunities
Release Date:
08/19/2015
... of all things internet--among other things. However, more and more we're seeing these young adults, now the largest living ... In fact, according to new data, young people are giving more...
Rockefeller, JPMorgan Chase Foundation Support 100,000 Opportunities Hiring Fair & Forum in LA
Release Date:
02/24/2016
... for young people, today announced that in one day, more than 1,000 Opportunity Youth were offered on-the-spot ... Hiring Fair & Forum on Feb. 11. Hiring managers from more than 30 companies, including,...
Century Foundation Report Recommends Universal Child Allowance
Release Date:
03/17/2016
... poverty rate in the United States is stubbornly high, with more than 12 million American children—16.5 percent of all ... allowance could change all that. The report, Doing More for Our Children , models ten...
Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building
Release Date:
07/05/2016
... Missing About Capacity Building Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more...
Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors
Release Date:
09/29/2016
... One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to focus more on population health. With millions more people insured, the assumption is that governments could devote more resources to efforts...
Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education
Release Date:
12/14/2016
... Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education More parents today are financially supporting — and paying more — for their children’s college education, but that ... in the top quarter of the...
Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101
Release Date:
03/20/2017
... fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded vast influence around the ... as the Rockefeller bank, though the family never owned more than 5 percent of its shares...
Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"
Release Date:
04/26/2017
... to learn with simplistic narratives and solutions— more tests— more turnover— more short-term grant cycles—while labeling their schools, ...
Newman's Own Pops The Champagne - Salad Dressing - That Is
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... Giving now approaches $500 million to date, benefiting more than 7,500 charities in more than 75 countries, with more than 300 products — ranging from salad dressing and ...
Can Business Save The World from Climate Change?
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... was not following suit. "We Are Still In" launched with more than 20 Fortune 500 companies on board, including ... and Bloomberg Philanthropies. It has grown to include more than 1,500 businesses and...
NYS Health Foundation Finds Uninsured Rate Fell by 36 Percent After ACA Implemented
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... the ACA coverage expansions, veterans would have used more VA health care: an estimated 125,000 more office visits, 1,500 more inpatient surgeries, and 375,000 more...
Data-Driven Gender Equality
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... gender gap in agriculture, meanwhile, could have an even more profound impact on families and productivity in the ... and training opportunities. Studies show that giving women more decision-making power over...
NY Women’s Foundation, NoVo and 15 Other PNY Members Support Leadership of Young Women of Color with $2.1M
Release Date:
01/10/2017
... of color who are new to philanthropy and participatory grantmaking . The members of the PRC were (in majority) ...
Forget Spending Cuts, the U.S. Economy Really Needs a $2 Trillion Stimulus
Release Date:
03/05/2013
... by Century Foundation Fellow Andrew Fieldhouse argues for more targeted stimulus spending instead of economic austerity. More than five years after the start of the Great Recession ...
Leadership for Education Innovation
Release Date:
05/24/2014
... in the New York City work and in high school reform more generally, and with more than forty years of experience in K-12 and higher ...