Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... stays true to its roots as its popularity grows. The U. S . Impact Investing Alliance recently announced the creation ...
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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Kicks Off Next Week, Supported by Capital One Bank, Doris Duke and Gilman Foundations
Release Date:
08/17/2017
... Parker Jazz Festival. The festival is New York City' s annual salute to the legendary late saxophonist, featuring ... who continue to shape and drive the art form. This year' s festival runs August...
Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth
Release Date:
08/25/2017
... In the category of research that doesn’t tell any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is ...
Audacious Philanthropy
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... Securing the right for same-sex couples to marry in the U. S . These efforts have transformed or saved hundreds of ... inevitable success stories in retrospect. Many of today’ s emerging large-scale...
How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... a Nonprofit Board Late one night, not too long ago, one of us got a phone call from a desperate executive director. The ... more on top of things. In particular, he felt the board’ s treasurer, a well-known...
A Former Felon Leads The Way In Criminal Justice Reform
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... senior policy advisor for corrections and reentry at the U. S . Department of Justice. Hoskins’ transition from being ... Hoskins participated in the second cohort of Martin’ s program, Leading with Conviction...
Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... here to join my parents, who had already been in the U. S . for years, having left our home country because they knew ...
BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... board trends, but its purview is far too broad for us to manage in the context of one article. Therefore, NPQ ...
The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... aware and active. In 2015, more than 75 percent of large US corporations were engaged in corporate citizenship ...
Forecasting the Upcoming City Council Gender Imbalance
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... 18 women in the Council a few years ago. With the city’ s quadrennial elections upon us , a new Council class will be inaugurated in January, with ... 12 primaries largely determining who will fill the city’...
A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars The internet offers us instant gratification. A movie is a mouse click away. Need ... Philanthropy. The center hopes to satisfy the public’ s need to help in the immediate...
Research To Prevent Blindness-Backed Project Identifies Potential Biomarkers Of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... of biomarkers in human blood plasma may allow us to better understand the early to intermediate stages of ... Channing Division of Network Medicine of Brigham and Women' s Hospital. Their approach...
Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... objectives. The report by the nation’ s largest grant maker, which has already directed billions of ... of international aid in an era of retrenchment by the U. S . government and to inspire people worldwide to...
Health at A Planetary Scale
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... two. Two hundred years ago, there were about 1 billion of us ; today, we number more than 7 billion. We have harnessed ... built vast cities. We appropriate about half the planet’ s accessible fresh water and...
Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... The protests were powerful affirmations of our city’ s stance against racism and hatred. But even though New York ... place, we must not let this reputation blindside us . The history of racism isn’t particular...
Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... to have created an action plan in 2015. It’ s also common enough that many parents now think twice before ... as much as 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the U. S . are given to animals (more than 63,000...
High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... there in places like Africa and Latin America, and it’ s really tough to do that," says Rolf Huber, managing ... director of the foundation. "The prize was a way for us to get coverage and attention...
NYS Health Foundation Finds Uninsured Rate Fell by 36 Percent After ACA Implemented
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... uninsured, lacking access to both coverage through the U. S . Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA health ...
Study: Giving Leads to Happiness
Release Date:
09/18/2017
Study: Giving Leads to Happiness The adage says it’ s better to give than to receive. But is it really? The scientific evidence that generosity is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness...
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... in Washington DC have together committed more than US $13 million over five years to kick-start the IBL. The ...