Where Walls Exist, the Arts Provide a Doorway
Release Date:
03/27/2017
... the Family,” starring comedian and former “The Daily Show ” correspondent Aasif Mandvi and featuring skits about ...
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Forum Tells Congress to Keep Johnson Amendment, Quotes PNY Official Statement
Release Date:
04/05/2017
A broad, nationwide coalition of nonprofits delivered a clear message to Congress today: maintain the current law that protects nonprofit organizations from being hounded for partisan political contributions and endorsements.
We Made a Comprehensive Investment in Board Service, and This Is What Happened
Release Date:
04/20/2017
Eric Eckholdt of Credit Suisse Americas Foundation writes, "Since the inception of our Board Service Program, we have trained a total of more than 1,100 employees and placed more than 125. While there was a significant number of employees who...
Three Ways Funders Delude Themselves About Equity
Release Date:
04/26/2017
Kris Putnam-Walkerly, global philanthropy advisor, writes "Funders, for the most part, want to do the right thing and operate with the best of intentions. But within those good intentions, funders too often suffer from what I call 'delusional...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces New Grants for Immigrant Families Facing Deportation
Release Date:
06/21/2017
Brooklyn Community Foundation is announcing $72,500 in new grants through its Immigrant Rights Fund, a special initiative created by Foundation donors in the weeks after the 2016 presidential election to build a boroughwide response to unjust...
Social Justice Funders: For National Movements to Win, Invest in Texas
Release Date:
08/08/2017
Edward W. Hazen Foundation Intern Juan Cardoza-Oquendo says investing in community organizing in Texas now is a smart investment for the future of social justice nationwide.
At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste
Release Date:
09/21/2017
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) - a network of 400 of the biggest consumer goods companies across 70 countries - along with Champions 12.3 has approved a Call to Action to standardize food date labels worldwide by 2020.
Get It Right, Right Now
Release Date:
10/18/2017
It is no coincidence that the communities that are hardest to reach in the decennial census count are also those that are under-resourced and under-represented in federal, state and local government. Systematic undercounting of hard-to-reach...
Data Capacity as a Step Toward Nonprofit Sustainability
Release Date:
02/14/2018
Mike Pratt, President, Sherman Foundation and Pat Swann, Senior Program Officer, New York Community Trust on the importance of data capacity
Making the Most of Interesting Times – and Achieving the Global Goals
Release Date:
02/22/2018
Michael Bzdak Executive Director, Global Community Impact, Johnson & Johnson reflects on the turning point of Larry Fink’s ‘BlackRock Letter’ to business leaders and the urgent need to embrace large-scale collaboration to meet each of the 17...
The Next Five Years: Three Reasons We Must Adapt
Release Date:
05/01/2018
... and “corporate” sectors are blurring. 3. Show me the money!: Whatever label you use to describe ...
The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research
Release Date:
05/17/2018
Betsy Myers, Ph.D., Program Director for Medical Research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation writes, " More than 40 percent of young physicians with full-time faculty appointments at academic medical schools leave academics within 10 years. The...
Finding—and Using—the Right Tool for the Job: A Landscape Scan of Assessment Tools
Release Date:
08/02/2018
... in place, or planning for growth. Second, the findings show that to make the most use out of a tool, it is critical ...
Every Person Counts: Why the Census Must Be Rescued
Release Date:
08/08/2018
Gary D. Bass, Antonia Hernández, Barbara Picower, and Darren Walker write "All philanthropists have a stake in the census, no matter what they fund or where. It is incumbent upon us to do whatever we can to guarantee that it proceeds accurately,...
Nonprofit Resource Equity and Access: A Call to Close the Gap
Release Date:
08/14/2018
... leaders to develop the infrastructure it takes to show results. Equally necessary is the grantor-grantee trust ...
You Can't Hack Trust
Release Date:
06/17/2019
Trust is the foundation on which every philanthropic relationship rests. And individual and family philanthropy is no different.
Making Lunch Free Was Just the Beginning
Release Date:
12/10/2019
It was a proud moment for New York City when its public school system began implementing universal free school lunch on the first day of the school year in 2017.
2020 Open Society Fellows Developing Approaches to Counter Economic Inequality
Release Date:
02/06/2020
... Chappe will produce a book and a series of videos to show how the unequal distribution of risk between ...
JPMorgan Chase Makes $50 Million Philanthropic Investment to Help Address Immediate and Long-Term Impacts of COVID-19
Release Date:
03/18/2020
Helps address humanitarian and economic challenges, supporting vulnerable and underrepresented communities, small businesses and existing nonprofit partners.
Moving to An Earned Knowledge Model of Philanthropy
Release Date:
03/24/2020
... by the man at the bus stop who took the opportunity to show us where Rosa Parks really boarded the bus on that ...