Site Search

- resource provided by the Forum Network Knowledgebase.
Search Tip: Search with " " to find exact matches.

Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... it demanded less familiar tools and skills: sitting still for several hours of PowerPoint presentations, trying to ... to participate in a James Beard Foundation Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change. The New...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Food Systems

Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... attention: even last night’s version of the bill won’t work . Graham-Cassidy would, as of 2020, take the funds ... funding from states that expanded Medicaid coverage for their residents under the ACA to those...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

The Commonwealth Fund

The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

Release Date:

09/26/2017

As the police have gotten more aggressive about collecting genetic material, they've quietly amassed a giant database of DNA profiles without any laws and little oversight over how they can use it.

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Justice Reform

With A New School Year Underway, Hundreds of Teaching Positions Remain Unfilled In New York City

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... staff openings. Still, they indicate a critical need for special-education teachers and paraprofessionals, teaching assistants who tend to work with young students and those with disabilities. Many of ... and...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Education

How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... has become yet another part of American life reserved for those who are most privileged. Fewer Americans are ...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... tools not usually found in online journals. The idea for the program, launched last year with the help of a $1.2 ... at the press. “We were already doing innovative online work and planned to do more.” . . ...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It’s Gone Too Far

Release Date:

09/26/2017

Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It’s Gone Too Far ... on private Facebook pages and across Twitter. They argue for everything from male separatism to an end to gender ... capital — long identified...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Tumult After AIDS Fund-Raiser Supports Harvey Weinstein Production

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... 2015, the entertainment producer Harvey Weinstein arranged for two items to be auctioned off at a fund-raiser for amfAR, a New York-based charity that works to cure AIDS. ... had agreed to reimburse Mr...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

As Deaths Mount, Scrutiny of NYPD Response to ‘Emotionally Disturbed Persons’

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... person” (EDP) calls, the slow pace of implementation for new NYPD crisis intervention training, and the tragic ... Substance Abuse and Disability Services, members called for clarity on recent interactions...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Justice Reform

By Age 3, Inequality Is Clear: Rich Kids Attend School. Poor Kids Stay with a Grandparent

Release Date:

09/28/2017

Only 55 percent of America’s 3 and 4-year-olds attend a formal preschool, a rate far below China, Germany and other power players on the global stage.

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... depicts Ms. Constantine as a carnival freak suffering for the perceived misdeeds of Ms. DeVos and President Trump. ...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Arts

Atlantic Theater Company Names Amy Staats Tow Playwright-in-Residence

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... 2017–2018 playwright-in-residence as well as the lineup for its upcoming Amplified Reading Series and two new ...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Arts

Related Organizations

The Tow Foundation

Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... the two-day “Sustaining Television News Preservation for the Next Generation” workshop, with the goal of developing new strategies for sustaining library-based broadcast preservation. The ... president of the...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Communications/Media

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... Report. At the same time, employers continue to search for ways to engage millennials to successfully attract, hire ... will purchase a product because a company advocated for an issue they cared about, and...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Corporate Social Responsibility

08 Nov 2017

Service For Impact – Our History, Practice, and Program Management Challenges

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... York City area companies we understand and value service for impact as a business imperative. We believe strategic ... put these principles into practice? Join the next Service For Impact Working Group...

Find More By

Event type

Professional Development

Format

Audience

Topic(s)

Ford Funds at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... Immigration and Artistic Activism The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has received a two-year grant from Ford ... Mentoring Program in New York, NY as an impactful model for replication. NYFA, a...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Arts

Immigration

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

Mellon Foundation Makes the Business Case for Humanities Education

Release Date:

09/29/2017

Mellon Foundation Makes the Business Case for Humanities Education Called the NH Humanities ... it explicitly recognizes and supports the business case for humanities collaboration. Labor shortages and skill gaps...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Economic Security

Education

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

'Massive Anxiety' As Turkey Cracks Down On International NGOs

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... the second inspection in a month. A Syrian staffer whose work permit was still pending jumped off a wall to evade ...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

International/Foreign Affairs

De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection

Release Date:

10/03/2017

Mayor de Blasio will officially name Vincent Sapienza commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, more than a year after the last permanent head left.

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

General Motors Is Going All Electric

Release Date:

10/03/2017

After more than a century peddling vehicles that pollute the atmosphere, General Motors is ending its relationship with gasoline and diesel.

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

Search form

You are here

Site Search

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Pages