This Is How NYC Plans To Solve Its Homeless Problem
Release Date:
10/03/2017
New York City may have found a way to combat homelessness.
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How Ms. Foundation Sees Taking Children to Work Day as an Opportunity to Build Careers, Education and Upward Mobility
Release Date:
02/09/2018
... the various gaps in our world of work today, and to find ways to work even smarter and to introduce new career paths, ...
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Scaling for Success - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP
Thursday, September 9, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:15pm
... When does a philanthropic effort require staff and what are the considerations for hiring? And what is necessary to ...
Improving the Accuracy of Wikipedia’s Medical Information
Release Date:
01/06/2015
... most-visited website , and its 26,000 health care articles are requested by Web users 178 million times a month. ... that they were excited to complete assignments that are useful, rather than an assignment...
Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close
Release Date:
05/20/2013
The country’s only independent polling agency has been accused under a new law of overtly political activity, due in part to a series of grants it has received from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute...
Grant Foundation Accepting Letters of Inquiry for Inequality Research Studies
Release Date:
05/27/2015
... in studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that will enhance the work of researchers, ...
Ford Foundation Awards $1 Million to Help Prisoners Get a College Education
Release Date:
08/06/2015
... nationally, and to conduct advocacy work on the best ways to help people after they leave prison.... Ford ...
Q&A with Sreenivasan: The Met Engages Audiences with Digital Technology (Bloomberg Philanthropies)
Release Date:
02/02/2016
Through innovative partnerships and bold approaches, the Bloomberg Philanthropies arts program increases access to culture using new technologies. The chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art discusses the intersection of art and...
Wallace, Mellon Foundations Embrace Identity and Race
Release Date:
04/21/2016
... aims to spend $52 million on a study identifying ways arts organizations can expand audience engagement while ...
Abortion Rates Hit Historic Low In Developed World But Not Elsewhere
Release Date:
05/13/2016
... Low In Developed World But Not Elsewhere Married women are much more likely to have them. Where they're illegal or .....
Century Foundation Report Analyzes 'Identity Threat' Some College Students Face
Release Date:
05/18/2016
The report suggests that students face bias from some professors based on stereotypes and that this creates "stereotype threat" in which students may come to doubt their own abilities.
U.S. Trust Study Says the Rich Feel Strongly About Giving to Improve Society
Release Date:
05/23/2016
... time, skills, or services to charities, rich individuals are showing their confidence in the nonprofit world. Among ...
In WSJ, Commonwealth’s Blumenthal on Making Health Records Mobile
Release Date:
06/29/2016
... term “health information exchange” or HIE. There are some technical barriers to HIE, but they are not the big problems. The big problems are economic and cultural... In WSJ, Commonwealth’s ...
Century Foundation President Comments on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness
Release Date:
07/22/2016
... is challenging that definition as policymakers look for ways to curb the effects of growing student debt. The ...
MasterCard Makes Fortune List of Businesses Confronting World's Problems
Release Date:
08/23/2016
... of Businesses Confronting World's Problems More businesses are taking on society’s biggest problems—and making money ... see how the corporations doing good by way of big business are spread out across...
With Funds From Helmsley Charitable Trust, Researchers Target Fat to Treat Cancer
Release Date:
09/20/2016
Fat isn't just something we eat: it may also lie at the heart of a new approach to treating cancer.
Rockefeller Leads Initiative to Help Young People Without College Degrees Land First Job
Release Date:
09/21/2016
... College Degrees Land First Job WNYC has been looking at ways the country can create economic opportunity for more ...
New York Foundation Releases New Report Showcasing Strategies and Case Examples by Grantees
Release Date:
10/31/2016
... and Case Examples by Grantees Service organizations are meeting the immediate needs of their constituents and ... budgets, and greater demand on their services, nonprofits are looking for new ways...
Wallace Foundation Has Been Betting Big on Principals. What's It Learning?
Release Date:
11/01/2016
The funder recently launched a $47 million initiative to help universities improve their programs for developing principals. Before that was the funder's $85 million Principal Pipeline Initiative, which began in 2011.
William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes School Choice for Inner-City Students
Release Date:
02/10/2017
... families do not necessarily respond to these programs in ways that policymakers intend... William T. Grant Foundation ...