Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017
Release Date:
07/06/2017
... thanks to multiple donors. A legion of charitable groups has pumped some $85,000 into the school’s Medical ...
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Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup
Release Date:
08/01/2017
The Rockefeller Foundation is helping to finance a startup hoping to build exchange-traded funds for nonprofit organizations and direct the profits back to their causes.
Robert Sterling Clark Adopts Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and Garners Thousands of Positive Comments from Nonprofit Community
Release Date:
08/22/2017
... the KKK, White Supremacists, anti-Semites, and other groups that breed hate and violence. And now the terrorism in ...
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Release Date:
08/28/2017
Successful schools, analysts say, will increasingly be the ones that expand their programs to suit the changing needs of employers.
Trump Administration Considering Cuts to Cultural Exchange Visas
Release Date:
08/28/2017
The Trump administration is considering major reductions in cultural exchange programs, including those for au pairs and summer workers, that allow young people from foreign countries to work in the U.S., people familiar with the administration’s...
Fatherhood After 40? It's Becoming A Lot More Common
Release Date:
08/31/2017
In the U.S., the average age a woman gives birth to her first child has been rising. And, a study published Thursday in Human Reproduction shows dads are getting older, too.
Sustainable Business Model Innovation
Release Date:
08/30/2017
Proposing a form of business model innovation that focuses less on optimizing current oppurtunities and more on creating new ones
Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Africa contributes only 4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while six of the 10 most affected countries by climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, while stressing the urgent need to...
Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... Immigration and Customs Enforcement comes knocking? Some groups are working to educate themselves and others to answer ...
Off-Broadway’s Golden Age Faces Financial Hurdles
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Producers and theatrical artists who try to make their living off-Broadway in New York City say this is a golden age for their small-scale brand of theater. But that doesn’t mean they are reaping financial rewards.
New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing
Release Date:
09/12/2017
New York developer Jonathan F.P. Rose, founder and president of Jonathan Rose Cos. has raised a $233 million real-estate fund dedicated to affordable housing, the company’s largest such fund in a sector drawing more attention from investors.
Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... of Common Core, a coalition of parent and teacher groups is vowing to continue boycotting New York’s ...
The Fate of NYC’s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry
Release Date:
09/15/2017
Recently fired undocumented employees of Tom Cat Bakery are joining with worker advocates to urge the food industry to better protect immigrant workers under the Trump administration.
In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools
Release Date:
09/18/2017
In the eve of her 92nd birthday, Lottie Raukx wasn’t going to let the aches of arthritis or numbness of neuropathy slow down her fight for Harlem’s public schools.
A New Door Into the Kitchen for Aspiring Chefs
Release Date:
09/19/2017
Stage NYC is a new 12-week city program that recruits young, out-of-work New Yorkers and prepares them for restaurant careers with a mix of culinary classes and paid, on-the-job training in prominent kitchens like Marea, Del Posto and Bar Boulud.
More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog
Release Date:
09/21/2017
More than half of the city’s 1.1 million public school students attend overcrowded schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters.
States Team Up To Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
09/21/2017
A group of states adhering to the initial U.S. commitment to the Paris climate accord are on track to meet their environmental targets, despite the federal government planning to pull out the global pact, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals
Release Date:
09/25/2017
A new report released this week, Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems, based on interviews with leading NGOs and grantmakers, seeks to offer some concrete recommendations and catalyze a conversation about how to change the industry with an eye...
Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Chefs Boot Camp initiative is part of the James Beard Foundation's education and outreach programming and represents a relatively new step in the culinary community: the recognition that chefs can — and should — try to influence food-systems policy...
The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... and the size of the databases grows, civil-liberties groups , defense attorneys and advocates are ringing alarm ...