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 ...
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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 ...
Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... Up, Poverty Down New data for 2016, released by the U. S . Census Bureau last week, shows continued healthy gains in ... Wages, Broader Advances: Seven Indicators of New York’ s Economic Health.” The Census...
New Book, "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Carnegie Council Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are our values converging or ... 18 by Harvard University Press, presents Ignatieff’ s discoveries and his interpretation of...
Nursing Home Evacuations Should Not Be “All or Nothing,” Says GSA Member in Senate Testimony
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... Says GSA Member in Senate Testimony Speaking before the U. S . Senate Special Committee on Aging today, University of ...
LDN Fund Officially Launched
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... (UNCCD) in Ordos, China. With an initial target size of US $300 million, the LDN Fund is a first-of-its-kind ...
How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... $390 billion awarded to charities last year. The lion’ s share was from high net worth individuals, an estimated 91% ... with at least $1 million in liquid financial assets–by U. S . Trust, Bank of America’...
Pound Foolish
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... than 46 million people, or more than 14 percent of the US population. These hubs supply food pantries, churches, and ...
Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... in the Climate and Health Program at Columbia University' s Mailman School of Public Health, the first academic program in climate and health in the U. S ., lead the Consortium, with input from an...