Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping
Release Date:
03/29/2016
... outweigh the short-term costs associated with it, systems scientist Robert Jeffers said. The city and region ...
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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation
Release Date:
04/12/2016
The New York Community Trust, the city’s community foundation, has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising projects—from reforming the bail system to developing an arts and leadership program for children on the autism spectrum.
NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust
Release Date:
04/13/2016
The New York Community Trust is committed to investing in underserved communities and equity, and mostly follows through on those goals to achieve results, a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's Philamplify initiative...
Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
“This is a preference that preferences the already advantaged,” observed Richard Kahlenberg, a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and a prolific writer on higher education issues.
Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City
Release Date:
08/19/2016
... than the total population of Boston and Seattle’s school systems combined. The effect of housing instability and ...
Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline
Release Date:
09/09/2016
... of color—when schools enforce punitive disciplinary systems . Along with collaborators Russell J. Skiba and M. ...
Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty
Release Date:
01/12/2017
The Future Cities Accelerator announced 10 $100,000 grants to organizations devoted to improving the lives of the urban poor, with the hope that some will be successful enough to export to other cities.
ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide
Release Date:
03/16/2017
... Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) are doing their part to help farmers raising ...
JPMorgan Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs
Release Date:
05/05/2017
The initiative will create a system for aligning career and technical education programs with in-demand jobs in growing New York City industries.
Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School
Release Date:
06/01/2017
Investor George Soros hit back Thursday against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader’s attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros founded after the fall of communism.
Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training
Release Date:
06/13/2017
The infrastructure plans of the Trump administration will have to first overcome a significant problem that already plagues the U.S. economy: a severe lack of skilled workers necessary to turn job-creation goals into reality, writes Zoe Baird of the...
Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’
Release Date:
06/13/2017
... now a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany, had been experimenting with Sunset ...
NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast
Release Date:
06/30/2017
Ana Oliveira, president and CEO of The New York Women’s Foundation and member of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, joins NYN Media Podcast to talk about what led to - and came out of - a report on...
Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award
Release Date:
07/20/2017
One in four people in the world is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the system of formal financial services which can serve as bridge out of poverty. As a direct result of its Inclusive Finance efforts—led by Bob Annibale, global director...
Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use
Release Date:
08/10/2017
The world of crowded jails, tense courtrooms, and cops on the beat is a far cry from the air-conditioned spaces data wonks usually inhabit. But according to Measures for Justice (MFJ), better data is key to reforming America’s hyper-localized...
At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.
Release Date:
08/28/2017
As president of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy operations. The charitable grant-making arm of the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity each year; in...
Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Mayo's pain program is one of a few around the country to address the emotional, social and psychological aspects of pain and reduce patients' reliance on addictive medicines. But as the nation faces an opioid epidemic, there needs to be more of...
Audacious Philanthropy
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Private philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century.
Sixty Days Into MTA's 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To Review Plans
Release Date:
08/30/2017
Sixty days ago Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan and announced a top-to-bottom review of the calcified organization that runs the subway system.
Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas
Release Date:
08/29/2017
On the impressive fundraising efforts after Hurrican Harvey