Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites
Release Date:
08/08/2017
... websites in every state, the District of Columbia, and U. S . Territories. Statewide legal aid websites provide users ...
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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 ...
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...