Germany Provides One Example for Ending the Cycle of Homelessness to Prison
Release Date:
04/18/2017
... answer is yes. Before we discuss possible solutions, let us fully understand the far-reaching repercussions of the ...
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NY Community Trust to Assist More New Yorkers on the Path to Citizenship
Release Date:
05/22/2017
NaturalizeNY, administered by the NYS Office for New Americans in partnership with the Robin Hood Foundation, New York Community Trust, universities and media organizations, launched a second round of its private-public partnership to encourage...
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse
Release Date:
06/27/2017
One of Europe’s largest foundations, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation agreed to donate $150 million to a joint research, education and public policy program with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore that is intended to promote the ideal of...
Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking
Release Date:
06/29/2017
... in Schools (CIS) is the largest and most effective US organization dedicated to keeping disadvantaged kids in ...
Ford Foundation's Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy
Release Date:
06/30/2017
... ratify a deeply held value in American culture. They allow us denizens of the current moment to hold onto one of the ...
NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality
Release Date:
07/19/2017
If a foundation’s mission is to build more healthy partnerships in the world, what better place to start than with their own internal partnerships? For Peter and Jennifer Buffett of the NoVo Foundation, developing their own partnership as a couple...
Rockefeller Supports Food Tank’s Sold-Out NYC Summit on Food Waste
Release Date:
07/25/2017
Food Tank, in partnership with Rethink Food Waste Through Economics and Data (ReFED) and with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and The Fink Family Foundation, will present a one-day summit on September 13, 2017, at the WNYC Greene Space in...
NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation
Release Date:
07/31/2017
... in building new structures and systems to propel us into a world that is oriented around interdependence, ...
New York Foundation Welcomes Altaf Rahamatulla as Program Officer
Release Date:
08/04/2017
... We couldn’t be more excited. Mr. Rahamatulla comes to us from the Ford Foundation where he served as a program ...
The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced
Release Date:
09/05/2017
The 2017 NCRP Impact Awardees have been announced.
Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... a nonprofit sector, to recognize the complexity that makes us unique. All nonprofits are not the same; the sector is ...
IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states – to provide elementary school teachers with ...
The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... are the millennials, who the Pew Research Center tells us were born between 1980 and 1997 and, in 2015, surpassed ...
At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... believe simplified and consistent date labelling will help us get one step closer to meeting our resolution to halve ... by 2030. "The Sustainable Development Goals have given us a historic opportunity...
Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... improves our fiscal outlook. This framework doesn’t tell us how or whether tax reform will be paid for. Going forward, ...
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Census 2020 - Time to Act - A Webinar Hosted by United Philanthropy Forum
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... take action now to support a fair and accurate count. Join us to learn more about options for you and your organization ...
Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?
Release Date:
09/29/2017
It is well known that one of the keys to a high-quality education system are excellent teachers. Research has consistently identified effective teachers as the most important school-related factor influencing student achievement. Recognizing this,...
Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... corn and soy for cheap meat and processed food, which make us fat and sick. While we can talk about the extent to which ...
Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way
Release Date:
10/02/2017
For the first time in several years, the Ford Foundation disclosed the investment performance of its $12.1 billion endowment, saying it generated a return of 7 percent in 2016. By comparison, the median return of more than 5,700 foundations that...
How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation
Release Date:
10/03/2017
The Wallace Foundation’s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: Pathways, Partnerships and Fidelity,” is the latest entry in what the Wallace Foundation itself calls the “field of scale-up studies.”