From the Ground Up
Release Date:
09/08/2017
From the Ground Up Top- down development doesn't work. What's needed is a "pull ... “participatory development” has become development’s new avatar, and the rhetoric is replete with promises of .....
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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... crowd most days. On a recent afternoon, students from down the block and around the world scribbled out homework, ... of computers, indulging in a world of knowledge that many New Yorkers take for granted. It...
At the City Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff The New York City Council, a 51-member body, currently includes only 13 women, down from 18 in 2009, and that number is likely to soon fall ...
Aetna Foundation Pledges Funding To 25 Community-Based Nonprofits To Promote Active Living and Increase Access To Healthy Foods
Release Date:
11/13/2017
... Active Living and Increase Access To Healthy Foods With a new round of grants, the philanthropic arm of Aetna is ... officer at the foundation. Essentially what it boils down to is that a lot of our health is...
Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care
Release Date:
05/08/2018
... United States declined for the first time in decades, a new report is out detailing which states have the best and ... to deliver medical care to its residents. The study broke down over 40 areas of health...
Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes
Release Date:
11/07/2018
... like ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates. Good bacteria break down nitrogen compounds at aquariums, and the new study shows that some bacterial communities there emulate ...
Henry Ford III Elected to Ford Foundation's Board of Trustees
Release Date:
02/25/2019
... expansion into international affairs, a move to New York City in 1953, and divestment in holdings of Ford ... which led to his resignation in 1977. Upon stepping down , he said that after 33 years as a trustee...
Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)
Release Date:
01/07/2016
... housing prices begun to stabilize and the unemployment rate steadily fallen. But while the economic crisis has ...
10
Nov
2020
Strengthening the Economic Foundation for Youth During COVID & Beyond - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
... insecurity for this generation. In fact the unemployment rate for young workers ages 16–24 jumped from 8.4% to 24.4% ... (AAPI) workers (29.6%, 27.5%, and 29.7%, respectively. For low -income BIPOC youth...
Tech Companies Lead the Way on Paid Family Leave, and the Rest of the Country Should Catch Up - Century Foundation Study
Release Date:
11/13/2015
... comes to paid family leave, the United States has a dismal record . Not only does it not offer any federally-mandated ... on family leave policies: the technology sector. In a new report on paid family leave in...
"Be the Change" an Interview with Arabella Advisors' Eric Kessler
Release Date:
11/21/2017
... that he could address through his venture: research and resources . After a client has spent time choosing ...
13
Feb
2020
Walking the Walk: Operationalizing Lessons from Decolonizing Wealth and Winners Take All - A Food for Thought Conversation
Thursday, February 13, 2020 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
... start, build and lead efforts that result in real change? Resources How Decolonizing Wealth Is Challenging Philanthropy ... Winners Take All May 13 - Program details coming soon Bring your lunch and join your...
The Other 95 Percent: How Foundations Can Give All They’ve Got
Release Date:
05/09/2016
... fighting climate change. Stephen Heinz sparked an exciting new idea in this framework – foundations could pool funds ... through an RFP process, a venture capital firm to surface new and emerging ideas. We...
Change Captial Fund Launches Initiative to Support Community Development
Release Date:
06/02/2014
New York City Change Capital Fund Launches New Initiative to Support Community Development Groups ... Foundation; Goldman Sachs; Mizuho Bank USA; M & T Bank; New York Community Trust;...
Investing in our Mission: A Five-Year Case Study of Fossil Fuel Divestment at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Release Date:
05/11/2020
... Fund (RBF) released Investing in Our Mission , a new case study detailing how its investment returns beat ... has also committed 15 percent of its endowment to market- rate impact investments in renewable...
CSR, the Arts, and the Double Bottom Line
Release Date:
04/14/2015
... that support the arts consider the arts a moderate to very low priority. Yet, Americans for the Arts President and CEO ... brand perception. The Arts & Business Council of New York sees examples of...
NYS Health President Speaks Out for Free Lunch for NYC Children
Release Date:
05/23/2017
... de Blasio promised to enact universal free school lunch in New York City public schools. The Mayor has aggressively ... has worked to address the needs of poor and working class New Yorkers. But universal...
JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35
Release Date:
11/30/2017
... Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35 If current trends in child obesity continue, more than 57% of today’s children ... in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan...
William H. Wright II Named Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Trustee Chair
Release Date:
10/29/2019
... II Named Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Trustee Chair New York, October 29, 2019 – The Doris Duke Charitable ... the election of William H. Wright II as the foundation’s new Chair of the Board of Trustees...
10
Mar
2016
Looking at the 990 Part I (March 3) and Part II (March 10)
Thursday, March 10, 2016 -
8:45am to 10:30am
The IRS Form 990 is used by funders as a tool to track and scrutinize the finances, governance and accomplishments of grant applicants and recipients.