The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Pressed for workers, a New Jersey-based software company went hunting for a U.S. city with a surplus of talented employees stuck in dead-end jobs.
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Reed: Dreamer Bill Could Be Part Of Broader Border Security Legislation
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Southern Tier Republican Rep. Tom Reed said he’s in favor of a permanent solution for former Deferred Action of Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients. He believes there is far-reaching support for legislation to help undocumented immigrants who came...
Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The federal government should identify communities most at risk of flooding and launch a major infrastructure initiative that creates good jobs for a pressing purpose.
Opinion: After Primary Win, Accountability Begins For Eric Gonzalez
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has said he wants to make his office the most progressive in the country. We’re delighted to hear this, and our work now begins in holding him accountable.
Northeast Needs Trump Commitment to Gateway Project
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... Trump Commitment to Gateway Project After decades working in New York City real estate, Trump likely knows the two deteriorating, ...
Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Women Less Than Men
Release Date:
09/15/2017
Three women who worked at Google are suing the company over its salary practices, accusing the search giant of discriminating against its female employees by systematically paying them less than men who do similar jobs.
Mayor's Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says
Release Date:
09/18/2017
With the city’s homelessness crisis unabated, housing advocates are asking why most of the units created or preserved under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s affordable housing plan fail to target the city’s low-income New Yorkers who need help the most.
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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...
New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... she was fast-tracking food safety issues. “We are working on it in an urgent way,” Fariña said. But now, there is word ...
DACA Recipients Scramble to Reapply, But Not All are Eligible
Release Date:
09/21/2017
At a meeting in Jackson Heights, under the rumble of the 7 train, about 40 DACA recipients learned that their fate in this country depends on one date: March 5, 2018.
With A New School Year Underway, Hundreds of Teaching Positions Remain Unfilled In New York City
Release Date:
09/26/2017
Hundreds of schools are missing teachers and support staff two weeks into the school year, with many of the openings in high-poverty districts and struggling schools that are typically the hardest to staff, according to postings on a city database...
How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... Currently, 26 percent of poor adults, 39 percent of working -class adults and 56 percent of middle- and upper-class adults ages 18 ...
Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It’s Gone Too Far
Release Date:
09/26/2017
Silicon Valley has for years accommodated a fringe element of men who say women are ruining the tech world.
Tumult After AIDS Fund-Raiser Supports Harvey Weinstein Production
Release Date:
09/26/2017
In May 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. Now there is controversy about what happened after the auction.
By Age 3, Inequality Is Clear: Rich Kids Attend School. Poor Kids Stay with a Grandparent
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... a very different morning drop-off routine going on. Many working parents leave their children with a relative or at the home of a lady ...
How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Patricia Constantine thought hard about whether to use an image of the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, in her entry to this year’s ArtPrize contest. The mixed-media painting depicts Ms. Constantine as a carnival freak suffering for the perceived...
Atlantic Theater Company Names Amy Staats Tow Playwright-in-Residence
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Atlantic Theater Company has announced that Amy Staats will be the 2017–2018 playwright-in-residence as well as the lineup for its upcoming Amplified Reading Series and two new commissions. The Tow Foundation supports the playwright-in-residence...
Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Archivists, librarians and TV news professionals will make the journey to Vanderbilt University next year to discuss the future of preserving broadcast television news.
Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... the opportunity to support their local community. Colleagues working together to accomplish a shared goal can have a positive effect on ...
Ford Funds at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism
Release Date:
09/29/2017
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has received a two-year grant from Ford Foundation to support the expansion of its Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program to Detroit, MI; Newark, NJ; Oakland, CA; and San Antonio, TX.