Doris Duke Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative
Release Date:
01/24/2017
... from across the ideological spectrum, while the climate issue has been deeply politicized. Keeping diverse donor ...
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Head of Aetna Foundation Approaches Health Care as a Social Problem
Release Date:
02/16/2017
... the Aetna Foundation. Last year the grant maker committed $ 1 .5 million to communities across the country looking for ...
Open Society Foundations Supports Climate Change Glossary
Release Date:
03/01/2017
Even as we shake our heads over the changing weather, or moan about the fumes belched from the vehicles in our cities, climate change still feels a distant problem.
Atlantic Philanthropies, Commonwealth Fund and Other Foundations Take a Stand — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan
Release Date:
03/20/2017
... and the Commonwealth Fund have remained focused on the issue but are leery of stepping too far into the debate on ...
Tiffany & Co. Makes Its Point: Presidents Come and Go, But Climate Change is Forever
Release Date:
05/11/2017
As the firing of FBI Director James Comey swamps the news cycle, an amazing public statement by Tiffany & Co. still glitters through the muck. On Tuesday morning, the legendary American jeweler issued a terse but vehement pitch in favor of the...
Russell Sage Foundation Invites LOIs for Immigration Research
Release Date:
05/12/2017
Russell Sage Foundation Invites LOIs for Immigration Research
More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers
Release Date:
07/28/2017
Three years ago, just four cities affiliated with 100 Resilient Cities employed a "chief resilience officer." As of late July, there were officially 79 within the initiative’s namesake cohort.
Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries
Release Date:
08/18/2017
The Westchester Community Foundation (WCF) is funding a series, which will focus on the 200-year history of Sing Sing and its impact on prison reform, as well as current issues of incarceration, reform, rehabilitation and return to prison.
Trump Administration Considering Cuts to Cultural Exchange Visas
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... on five employment-based programs that are part of the J- 1 visa exchange visitor program, according to people familiar ...
U.S. Is Eliminating Its Arctic and Climate Envoys. What Message Does that Send?
Release Date:
08/31/2017
The envoys gave the U.S. seasoned voices in international negotiations involving complex issues around climate change and the future of the Arctic region.
EPA Now Requires Political Aide’s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications
Release Date:
09/05/2017
The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the unusual step of putting a political operative in charge of vetting the hundreds of millions of dollars in grants the EPA distributes annually, assigning final funding decisions to a former Trump...
After 16 Futile Years, Congress Will Try Again to Legalize ‘Dreamers’
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... would take a hard line on immigration, then punted the issue to Congress. . . After 16 Futile Years, Congress Will ...
More Floods Are Coming And We're Making Them Worse
Release Date:
09/07/2017
“Conquering” nature has long been the western way. Our hubris, and often our religious ideologies, have led us to believe we are above nature and have a right to subdue and control it. We let our technical abilities get ahead of our wisdom.
'We're Trying to Go All In': Chocolate Giant Mars Pledges $1 Billion To Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
09/14/2017
'We're Trying to Go All In': Chocolate Giant Mars Pledges $ 1 Billion To Fight Climate Change The chocolate giant Mars is promising to spend close to $ 1 billion over the next few years fighting...
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Fund the People Toolkit
Publication date:
09/2017
Fund the People created this toolkit to provide practical guidance, promising practices, and illustrative data to help funders, nonprofits, and others to maximize investments in the nonprofit workforce. Nonprofit people are nonprofit programs. Given this reality, supporting the nonprofit workforce is an effective strategy for increasing performance, impact, and sustainability. The toolkit features six content areas to help funders and nonprofit organizations invest in the nonprofit workforce as a strategy for improving the impact and sustainability of the organizations: Case Making: making...
At James Blake Trial, Judge Invokes Law Shielding Police Records
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... officers, firefighters and corrections officers. The issue reached a boiling point last year when the Police ...
Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... the Graham-Cassidy repeal-and-replace bill by Friday, one issue needs a lot more attention: even last night’s version ...
Myanmar Rohingya Abuses May Be Crimes Against Humanity, UN Rights Experts Warn
Release Date:
10/04/2017
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have called on the Myanmar authorities to immediately stop violence in northern Rakhine State, and to promptly...
World Bank Withholds Myanmar Funding, but Some Call for Sanctions
Release Date:
10/13/2017
The World Bank announced Wednesday that in response to the “violence, destruction and forced displacement of the Rohingya,” it will delay the release of a $200 million loan planned for Myanmar.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces Perry Cammack as the Program Director of Peacebuilding
Release Date:
01/29/2019
Rockefeller Brothers Fund has announced Perry Cammack as the director of its Peacebuilding program.