Creating A Positive Workplace Culture - A Little Kindness Goes A Long Way
Release Date:
08/28/2017
On methods and benefits of promoting positivity in the workplace
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For Teachers Working Through DACA, a Bittersweet Start to the School Year
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Jaime Ballesteros tried to contain his tears on Tuesday while teaching Brooklyn sixth graders about liquids, gases and solids. In between science classes at a charter school in East New York, he broke down at his desk.
Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts
Release Date:
09/13/2017
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued a report card today meant to underscore deep worries that the world is in danger of backsliding on a broad range of international-development objectives.
High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns
Release Date:
09/14/2017
When the corporate foundation at German engineering giant Siemens went looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant applications. Instead, it used a hot new format for foundations: a prize...
Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books
Release Date:
09/19/2017
For all of Sunset Park’s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque piers, the most popular destination in that neighborhood might just be the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Despite its squat concrete frame and fluorescent...
Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... sought to pull several major levers of change: It makes grants to 501(c)3 groups, which are paid out of a ...
Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... Care Act, suggesting that its state-by-state block grants could create health care chaos in the short term and a ...
Gates Foundation Pledges $220 Million for Women, Children, Adolescents
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... projects supported by $307 million in GFF Trust Fund grants and linked to $1.8 billion in IDA/IBRD financing have ...
Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap
Release Date:
09/25/2017
The United States champions itself as a beacon of democracy, yet nearly a century after granting its women citizens the right to vote, it clocks in behind ninety-eight other countries with regard to women’s participation as representatives in...
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse
Release Date:
10/18/2017
The digital Lanciani archive project is just one part of a larger scholarly collaboration called “Mapping Rome,” for which Camerlenghi is a principal investigator, along with scholars from Oregon, Stanford, and Italy.
‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism
Release Date:
12/08/2017
The Mellon Lecture Series, which will continue into the spring semester, is made possible by a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship to better understand and...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts
Release Date:
12/15/2017
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, a $750,000 grant, to fund a five-year project to build empathy in order to affect positive social change.
The Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust Gives $740,000
Release Date:
01/16/2018
... Hall to the State Capitol. The $740,000 in new nonprofit grants by the Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York .....
Westchester Community Foundation Names New Board Chair, Members
Release Date:
01/16/2018
... activities. In 2017, it awarded $2.1 million in grants to local nonprofits. An additional $4.4 million was ...
Bloomberg Supported Cities of Service Announces Winners of its Love Your Block Competition
Release Date:
07/16/2018
... winning city will receive $25,000 to be used for mini- grants and resources to support citizen groups' and local .....
Arcus Grantee, Dr. Kristina Olson, Receives Prestigious Honor
Release Date:
10/23/2018
Dr. Kristina Olson of the Trans Youth Project, an Arcus grantee who was recently announced as a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. Dr. Olson is one of 25 leaders to receive the fellowship for her work to advance scientific understanding of gender and to shed...
Greg Ratliff named VP at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Release Date:
04/04/2019
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors just named Greg Ratliff as its newest vice president. Greg will manage client engagements with a range of individual, family and corporate donors.
Tribeca Film Institute Announces 2019 Sloan Filmmaker Fund Grantees
Release Date:
04/04/2019
The Tribeca Film Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced the three TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund 2019 grantees, awarding them a total of $150,000.
Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards University of Glasgow Over $1.1M to Tackle Crohn's Disease in Children and Adults With a Novel Diet
Release Date:
07/30/2019
The University of Glasgow has received $1.1 million from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
NYPL Lions to Receive Laser Bath Cleaning, Paid for by New York Life Foundation and Donations From Hundreds of New Yorkers
Release Date:
08/12/2019
Iconic NYPL lions Patience & Fortitude will get a $250,000 laser bath.