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The New York Life Foundation and the Afterschool Alliance today announced $750,000 in grant awards to 18 middle school out-of-school time (OST) programs serving disadvantaged youth in communities across the nation.

William T. Grant Foundation supported research at Stanford which found African-American and Latino students who completed self-affirming writing exercises in middle school took more challenging courses and were more likely to enroll in college,...

The Funders' Network is offering PLACES Fellowships, which are transformational leadership development experiences that gives professionals in philanthropy the tools, knowledge, and best practices needed to embed an equity lens into their work.

... of the workforces are women. And the number of women working at tech companies is seriously low. Men make up 80 ...

I could not stop thinking about my initial discomfort. It nagged at me. What had caused this feeling of displacement? This was not my first time in an elite space. And I'm actually accustomed to feeling like I don’t fit in with those kinds of...

As colleges and universities flock to take their academic programs online, many of them work with outside contractors to handle some or all of the course development, marketing and back-office management of the programs. A warning about the nature...

As president of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy operations. The charitable grant-making arm of the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity each year; in...

As Texas mobilizes in response to the unprecedented floods of Hurricane Harvey, Staten Island Borough President James Oddo said government officials still need to learn from the critical mistakes made in New York in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.