Rockefeller Foundation Announces ShiftLabs: A Community Design Lab on the Future of Work
Release Date:
02/28/2018
... to earn a good living in the future — a recent McKinsey study found that 45% of job activities could be automated ...
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New Report From the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Probes Tech Use Among Young Kids in Silicon Valley
Release Date:
03/06/2018
... the early grades of elementary school. To ensure that the study included families from a range of economic, racial, and ...
William T. Grant Foundation Awards Rapid Response Research Grants to Address Pressing Issues Facing Young People in the U.S.
Release Date:
03/28/2018
The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded six Rapid Response Research Grants that will leverage research to address major challenges facing young people in the United States.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gifts Landmark Grant to Stimulate Greece’s Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector
Release Date:
05/24/2018
The three-year project is spearheaded by Rutgers University¬–New Brunswick in partnership with the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) and American Farm School (AFS).
Jessie Smith Noyes Report Finds Gaps, Opportunities in Impact Investment Field
Release Date:
06/26/2018
... investment advisors to the foundation's call for LOIs, the study found a broad spectrum of advisory services with .....
CollegePoint, An Initiative Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Makes A Hard Decision Less Lonely
Release Date:
08/15/2018
CollegePoint , An Initiative Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Makes A Hard Decision Less Lonely Some high school students think of applying to colleges as a full-time job. There are essays and tests, loads of...
Inside Philanthropy on the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Impact on Climate-Conscious Conservation in the South
Release Date:
09/20/2018
... land protection and climate change. In an impressive case study of funders and stakeholders aligning to secure an ...
Policy Experts Discuss Future College Affordability at Century Foundation Gathering
Release Date:
09/27/2018
Foremost among the numerous challenges facing higher education is affordability, particularly disparities and inequities affecting Black and lower-income students who seek to enter college, graduate and pay back significant loan debt. That was a...
With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch the Plant Humanities Initiative
Release Date:
11/13/2018
The joint aim of the initiative is to advance plant humanities, the interdisciplinary field that explores and communicates the unparalleled significance of plants to human culture.
New Report from United Hospital Fund Finds Wrong choice in nursing home can cause ‘devastating consequences,’
Release Date:
03/14/2019
... UHF’s series of reports were based on a year-long study of post-hospital care, which included interviews with ...
Spelman College Receives Funding from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Help Fuel the Field of Black Women Economists
Release Date:
08/29/2019
The Department of Economics at Spelman College will develop curriculum and programming to address the scarcity of Black women Ph.D.s in economics. thanks to funding from a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant.
Leaders of the Ford, Open Society, MacArthur, Hewlett, and Packard Foundations Pledge to Do More to Help Charities Pay Overhead
Release Date:
09/04/2019
In an unusual move, five of America’s wealthiest foundations have joined forces to do more to help grantees pay for rent, decent wages, technology, and other overhead.
Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses - New Report by The Century Foundation
Release Date:
09/12/2019
... indeed. Two years ago, The Century Foundation did a major study of partnerships between private OPMs and public ...
Did Exxon Deceive Its Investors on Climate Change? - Lee Wasserman, Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, Featured in The New York Times
Release Date:
10/21/2019
... will result from rising seas and temperatures. One recent study estimates that the world’s top 20 fossil fuel ...
NYPL Mid-Manhattan Branch to Reopen in May as Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
Release Date:
01/16/2020
... & Teen Center Teen Recording Studio & Media Lab Teen Study Rooms Youth Program Rooms Business Center Personal ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Aligns Investments with Mission: Diversifying Investment Managers
Release Date:
03/31/2020
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has set a new goal to invest 25 percent of its endowment holdings with firms majority-owned by women and/or people of color.
Deborah Cullen-Morales Appointed New Program Officer at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Release Date:
04/28/2020
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced the appointment of Deborah Cullen-Morales as the new program officer for Arts and Cultural Heritage.
Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Raquel Willis as New Director of Communications
Release Date:
06/25/2020
Former Executive Editor of Out Magazine to bring activist voice to nation’s oldest women’s foundation.
Alison White Joins Arcus’ Great Apes & Gibbons Program as Research, Learning and Evaluation Program Officer
Release Date:
07/23/2020
In her new role, Alison will focus on ensuring that learning from the field and broader society inform the foundation’s strategic conservation grantmaking, and that knowledge emerging from Arcus’ field engagement in turn informs the sector and...
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