Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 11:00am to Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 4:00pm
The Roosevelt Hotel, 45 E. 45th Street at Madison Ave, NYC
Students, educators and philanthropists have shown an enthusiastic appetite for digital learning. Yet education technology, with its potential to personalize learning, boost student achievement and lower costs, is still seen by some as more fad than...
As the intensive professional-development program from the New York Foundation for the Arts turns three, a new cohort of arts administrators has been selected.
Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Arcus Foundation, writes, "Unlike our colleagues in government, business, and civil society, foundation executives face relatively little outside pressure to achieve impact. We are free to fail, with no...
Foundation and nonprofit boards have an important responsibility: They advise and ultimately decide on the major polices, goals and governance of the organization.
Recent documentary films are conveying incredibly powerful stories and imagery around environmental destruction -- from flaming faucets and endangered species to eviscerated landscapes and communities uniting against polluters.
ASPCA's Michael Barrett explores how supporting animal welfare benefits human welfare — and why the connection between the two may be more of a philanthropic opportunity than most of us realize.
If you’ve ever spent a day or two pounding the hard terrazzo floors of the U.S. House and Senate office buildings talking with legislators and their staffs, you know that the artifice of political exchange presented in the now classic HBO television...
A new TCF report finds that low-income students are more likely to be identified for special education and more likely to be placed in separate classrooms than their non-low-income peers. While the exact reasons for the differences are unknown, the...
While we have known for decades that the United States is failing in its commitment to provide equal educational opportunity, there is far less consensus and understanding of how to reverse these trends.