Carnegie Supports Report on Incentives to Attend Private Colleges
Release Date:
04/14/2017
... this week. The conclusion, which was quickly disputed by a group representing public colleges, comes at a time when a ...
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Caroline Anstey Named COO of the Open Society Foundations
Release Date:
04/21/2017
... announced that Caroline Anstey , formerly of UBS Group and the World Bank, will assume the role of chief ...
Sloan Foundation-Supported Poll Finds Blacks Less Likely to Have Enough for Retirement
Release Date:
05/18/2017
Older white Americans are nearly twice as likely as African-Americans to say they've saved enough for retirement, a new poll found. African- Americans and Latinos have less financial security than whites and will rely on fewer sources of income...
Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center
Release Date:
05/24/2017
... much the Far West Side continues to be shaped by a small group of influential billionaires. They include Stephen M. ...
With Bloomberg Support, Rice University Researcher Maps “How to Succeed in College”
Release Date:
05/31/2017
... motivation, personal goals and a growth mindset. A group of academics – including one Rice University ...
Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017
Release Date:
07/06/2017
Now in its eighth year, the MSPP has welcomed roughly 60 high school students into its 2017 class, hailing from Hempstead, Uniondale and schools in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Beginning with a June 30 opening ceremony at Hempstead’s School of...
Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup
Release Date:
08/01/2017
... the profits back to their causes, officials from the group said with a plan to announce the initiative later on ...
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... education companies, Kaplan and the Apollo Education Group , the parent of the University of Phoenix. The closings ...
Fatherhood After 40? It's Becoming A Lot More Common
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... Twice as many dads of newborns are now in the 40-plus age group , compared to the 1970s. . . Fatherhood After 40? It's .....
Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... Grainger-Jones, Executive Director of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) System ...
Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Skoll, and Bill and Melinda Gates are expected to host new gatherings that promise to update what used to be the philanthropic get-together of the year: theClinton Global Initiative, filled with celebrities, rich donors, high...
Off-Broadway’s Golden Age Faces Financial Hurdles
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... seats, according to the Off-Broadway Alliance, an industry group . In recent years, the off-Broadway theaters have ...
New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... Deutsche Bank AG’s Community Development Finance Group and an affiliate of Nuveen, the asset management arm of ...
Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Claiming the Next Generation standards approved this week by the Board of Regents are “little more than a rebranding” of Common Core, a coalition of parent and teacher groups is vowing to continue boycotting New York’s standardized tests.
The Fate of NYC’s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... workers under the Trump administration. Last Thursday, a group of several dozen bakery workers, union organizers, and ...
In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... education advocates make their case. But Raukx and the group she belongs to — the Harlem Council of Elders — ...
More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters. Despite the Department of ...
States Team Up To Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
09/21/2017
States Team Up To Fight Climate Change A group of states adhering to the initial U.S. commitment to ...
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... NGOs or social entrepreneurs should do. But this week a group of foundations turned the lens on themselves to see ...
Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Americans who were left behind as the country pulled out of the Great Recession — African Americans, Hispanics and people without college degrees — saw large gains in net worth over the past three years, the Federal Reserve reported.