Top Science Foundation, Simons, Latest Endeavor is its Most Ambitious Project Yet
Release Date:
05/15/2017
... the foundation made a significant expansion into the building right across the street from its Manhattan offices ...
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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School
Release Date:
06/01/2017
... the Hungarian-American billionaire accused Orban of building a “mafia state” in Hungary. In doing so, he ...
Morgan Stanley Lights Up Times Square for the New York Women’s Foundation
Release Date:
07/20/2017
The New York Women’s Foundation will be featured in lights of Times Square, thanks to Morgan Stanley’s Lights on Broadway campaign, which builds public awareness of nonprofit organizations.
Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years
Release Date:
08/09/2017
Dozens of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. Carpenter is one in an army of social justice change agents that the Baltimore office of the...
Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues
Release Date:
08/16/2017
As climate change pushes U.S. cities to build protections against stronger storms and more frequent floods, the Rockefeller Foundation is helping cities with a novel kind of financing, one that transfers some of the risk of innovative projects from...
NoVo’s Radical Hope Fund a Result of Radical Listening
Release Date:
08/17/2017
... Now, they are looking to support transnational movement building with the launch of the Radical Hope Fund. Radical ...
Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
Release Date:
08/24/2017
To market to the base of pyramid, we need to stop thinking of selling as a dark art.
As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored
Release Date:
08/29/2017
As Texas mobilizes in response to the unprecedented floods of Hurricane Harvey, Staten Island Borough President James Oddo said government officials still need to learn from the critical mistakes made in New York in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Bedford-Union Armory Redevelopment Should Not Have Condos, Says Borough President
Release Date:
09/05/2017
After hearing from “thousands of community voices” on the redevelopment of the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams released his recommendations for the embattled project.
The New York Times Is Looking for Nonprofit Funding. Will It Succeed Where Others Have Failed?
Release Date:
09/05/2017
"Fractured Lands," a prodigious New York Times Magazine piece last year on the chaos in the Middle East, was an inadvertent window onto a fractured business model. It was thus relevant that Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph...
Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders
Release Date:
09/07/2017
President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, including Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and Govs. Andrew M. Cuomo and Chris Christie, to discuss the future of a...
Artists Behind ‘Tribute in Light’ 9/11 Memorial Continue to Inspire: ‘People Could Start Looking Up Again’
Release Date:
09/11/2017
On the night of September 11, 2001, artists Paul Myoda and Julian LaVerdiere watched from Brooklyn as an ashy and gaseous cloud formed over the remnants of the World Trade Center.
How JPMorgan Chase Is Fueling Detroit’s Revival
Release Date:
09/11/2017
It takes a village to rebuild a city, and the list of people and businesses collaborating on Detroit’s recovery is long. But the planning underway in the neighborhood of Livernois/McNichols, and in a growing roster of other neighborhoods, reflects...
Ms. Foundation Centers Black Women, Nonconforming People and Fem(me)s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary Cities
Release Date:
09/15/2017
As the Trump Administration plans immigration raids and continues attacks on DACA youth, immigrants, and multiple vulnerable populations, the Ms. Foundation for Women is calling for the expansion of sanctuary policies at the local level to center...
Opinion: The Risky Consequences Of Inclusionary Housing At Brooklyn’s Pfizer Site
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... York City has to leverage private financial resources when building much needed affordable housing. To take advantage of ...
Twenty Years After Suffragists Statue Victory, The Quest Continues For A National Women's History Museum
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... placed in the Crypt, on the bottom floor of the Capitol Building . Each movement forward was halted by another ...
Harlem Women Honored for Leadership by New York Women’s Foundation
Release Date:
09/22/2017
The New York Women’s Foundation (The Foundation) honored four inspiring Manhattan women at its Neighborhood Dinner on September 19th.
The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm.
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... is what Ms. Golden hopes to capture in the museum’s new building by the architect David Adjaye, whose design is to be ...
Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... or interpreting a campaign promise—let alone building a fulfilling career or educating their children.” ...
Filling New York Harbor with Millions Of Oysters to Fight Pollution
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Nearly every weekday trucks pick up 4 tons of oyster shells from 70 restaurants across the city for the Billion Oyster Project. Peter Malinowski and a team of students and employees use them—an estimated one-tenth of the total amassed in the city...