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 ...
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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
Monday, October 30, 2017 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
... 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.”
Opinion: Disaster Preparedness Requires a 211 System; New York City Still Doesn’t Have One
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Is New York City significantly better prepared for the next big one? My answer is “No.”
SVdP-USA Launches Disaster Services Corporation
Release Date:
10/05/2017
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP-USA) has launched Disaster Services Corporation, SVdP-USA to better respond to disasters such as those seen in recent weeks in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The corporation, which...
Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... The authors develop the first poverty measure in the US that takes into account the need for health care and find ...
Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines
Release Date:
10/19/2017
... according to library officials. “They shouldn’t block us from reading because of money.” On Thursday, the ...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change
Release Date:
10/20/2017
... realized climate progress, and many solutions available to us now remain underutilized—especially in the land sector, ...
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Nov
2017
Hats on, Hats Off – A Creative Approach to Capacity Building
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
... organizational and field types. We hope you’ll join us . Explore Nuts and bolts of capacity building - what it ...
Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants
Release Date:
11/01/2017
Bard College plans to launch a “microcollege” at the Brooklyn Public Library and will be free for students, aiming to attract talented low-income applicants who haven’t sought degrees due to the pricetag or personal hardships
GroundTruth, Supported By The Henry Luce Foundation and Ford Foundation, Launches Report America, Designed To Reignite Local Journalism
Release Date:
11/06/2017
The nonprofit GroundTruth Project is devoted to narrative storytelling around the world. Its new offshoot, Report for America, is designed to reignite local journalism in