NY Community Trust to Assist More New Yorkers on the Path to Citizenship
Release Date:
05/22/2017
... eligible immigrants in New York State with becoming U. S . citizens. The initiative provides comprehensive support ...
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse
Release Date:
06/27/2017
... An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse Great Britain’ s exit from the European Union followed by the unexpected victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 U. S . presidential election has sent shock waves throughout...
Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking
Release Date:
06/29/2017
Ford Foundation Suggests that It’ s Time to Reboot Grantmaking Communities in Schools (CIS) is the largest and most effective US organization dedicated to keeping disadvantaged kids in ... no reserves in the bank...
Ford Foundation's Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy
Release Date:
06/30/2017
Ford Foundation' s Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy American culture ... by his bootstraps, but by his hair. And Horatio Alger’ s stories, as well, while often remembered collectively as ... ratify...
NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality
Release Date:
07/19/2017
... Founders Champion Gender Equality If a foundation’ s mission is to build more healthy partnerships in the world, ... City. Spouses Jennifer and Peter Buffett serve as NoVo’ s co-presidents. They are highly...
Rockefeller Supports Food Tank’s Sold-Out NYC Summit on Food Waste
Release Date:
07/25/2017
Rockefeller Supports Food Tank’ s Sold-Out NYC Summit on Food Waste Food Tank, in partnership ... Times; Stephanie Strom, The New York Times; Tom Vilsack, U. S . Dairy Export Council; Luca Virginio, Barilla; Brian...
NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation
Release Date:
07/31/2017
... in building new structures and systems to propel us into a world that is oriented around interdependence, ... budgets should not exceed 33 percent of the organization’ s total annual budget. In the case of...
New York Foundation Welcomes Altaf Rahamatulla as Program Officer
Release Date:
08/04/2017
... We couldn’t be more excited. Mr. Rahamatulla comes to us from the Ford Foundation where he served as a program ... and migrant rights. Mr. Rahamatulla earned his master’ s degree from the Bloustein School of...
The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... 2017 NCRP Impact Awardees have been announced. This year’ s awards are special because of the challenging environment ... funder of the reproductive justice movement in the U. S ., is being honored for its...
Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... nonprofit organizations as if they are all the same? It’ s time, as a nonprofit sector, to recognize the complexity that makes us unique. All nonprofits are not the same; the sector is ...
IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... intelligence technology– trained by some of the nation’ s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states – to provide elementary school teachers with ... teaching...
The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... between 1946 and 1964, was, until very recently America’ s largest demographic cohort. Generation X, born between 1965 ... are the millennials, who the Pew Research Center tells us were born between 1980 and...
Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... question is how tax reform will affect our nation’ s unsustainable fiscal outlook, and that question remains ... tax reform must be fiscally responsible. Tax reform that’ s unpaid for would actually be anti-...
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Census 2020 - Time to Act - A Webinar Hosted by United Philanthropy Forum
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1:00pm to 2:00pm
... the funding and planning challenges facing Census 2020, it' s imperative that philanthropy take action now to support a fair and accurate count. Join us to learn more about options for you and your...
Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?
Release Date:
09/29/2017
Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What' s Needed Now? It is well known that one of the keys to a ... place, but that much work remains to be done. The report' s conclusions are...
Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... Our Food System The food movement has a problem: It’ s right about what’ s wrong with our system, but wrong about how to fix it. But ... corn and soy for cheap meat and processed food, which make us...
Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... foundation averages. What that means is that as a group, U. S . foundations, which have a collective $800 billion in ... Individual foundation returns vary, of course, and it’ s possible that actively managed...
How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... to Scale: The Elusive Goal.” The Wallace Foundation’ s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: ... the preface of the Wallace report echoes Rockefeller’ s title, declaring, “Scaling what works...
Opinion: Disaster Preparedness Requires a 211 System; New York City Still Doesn’t Have One
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... and information management practices to improve a city’ s resilience. With new technologies coming out all the time, ... preparedness efforts is never easy. In New York City’ s case, however, it’ s...
SVdP-USA Launches Disaster Services Corporation
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... in recent weeks in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U. S . Virgin Islands. The corporation, which will remain under the auspices of SVdP-USA’ s national council, represents a necessary change in legal ...