Bloomberg and Rockefeller Leaders Featured on Crain's List of NYC's Top 50 Most Powerful Women
Release Date:
07/01/2015
... this year, women were appointed to lead two of the Big 4 accounting firms. In a hypercompetitive city jam-packed ...
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Gates and JPMorgan Back White House Outreach to 'Unbanked'
Release Date:
12/03/2015
The Obama administration announced a set of public-private programs to expand financial services to the millions of low-income people in America and around the world who lack access to credit, savings accounts, and other fiscal essentials, reports...
Indian Government to Remove Ford Foundation from Watch List
Release Date:
01/08/2016
Restrictions against the Ford Foundation placed by the Indian Government are being lifted after the foundation registered itself under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA.)
Nathan Cummings Foundation Launches 2017 Fellowship Program
Release Date:
11/04/2016
The Nathan Cummings Foundation is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for the fourth cycle of the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship, which provides three individuals with up to $150,000 each to pursue a visionary social justice...
Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students
Release Date:
11/23/2016
Communities in Schools is a federated network of about 165 separate 501(c)(3) in 25 states and the District of Columbia.
Foundation for Child Development Sponsors Study that Finds Children Learning English Require Better Support for Academic Success
Release Date:
03/01/2017
Despite their potential, many English learners (ELs) -- who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the U.S. -- lag behind their English-speaking monolingual peers in educational achievement.
Sloan Foundation-Supported Poll Finds Blacks Less Likely to Have Enough for Retirement
Release Date:
05/18/2017
Older white Americans are nearly twice as likely as African-Americans to say they've saved enough for retirement, a new poll found. African- Americans and Latinos have less financial security than whites and will rely on fewer sources of income...
Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions
Release Date:
05/26/2017
The Great Recession, as a new collection of research papers from the Russell Sage Foundation shows, generated a great deal of sadness.
New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Lunch at New York City public schools will be available free of charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year, Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the basement cafeteria of a Hell’s Kitchen elementary school...
Mayor Targets 14,500 Buildings to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Release Date:
09/15/2017
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a mandate Thursday that would force some of the city's most inefficient buildings to curb their greenhouse gas emissions.
Open Society Foundations Launches Initiative to Support A More Inclusive American Democracy
Release Date:
05/02/2018
The Open Society Foundations has announced that is accepting applications from senior-level government officials and staff in the United States who have recently left public service. The program is designed for public-sector leaders interested in...
Riverside Park Conservancy Receives Grant for Park Management Technology from Booth Ferris Foundation
Release Date:
08/08/2019
The Riverside Park Conservancy has received a $200,000 grant from the Booth Ferris Foundation for park management technology.
TED: Exceptional Media and Ideas for Change
Release Date:
05/28/2013
... Director of Media Impact Funders, provide a recap of our recent program on the vision that drives TED, its plans ...
The Three Roads to Building Volunteer Value
Release Date:
07/17/2013
... volunteerism that have emerged from regular meetings with our members, the Service for Impact working group and ...
We Can Make Changes to the Charitable Deduction that Benefit Nonprofits
Release Date:
03/07/2013
Urban Institute Fellow Eugene Steuerle, a presenter at our recent program on the ongoing charitable deduction ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits
Release Date:
02/11/2016
... and analyzing input from nearly 1,000 participants in our 2014 Brooklyn Insights project, the foundation created a ... vision, mission, and strategy that resonates not only in our neighborhoods but around...
UJA-Federation of New York's CEO Writes Letter About AHCA to NY's Congressional Delegation
Release Date:
03/24/2017
... of New York has been a leader in providing help to our cities’ most vulnerable. Propelled by a moral mandate stemming from both our Jewish values and our experience in supporting a vast...
To Combat Islamophobia, Start Where You Are
Release Date:
03/23/2016
... form of fear and suspicion, especially following news of violence both from abroad and here in the United ... government, and community leaders to talk about how the recent escalation of anti-Muslim rhetoric...
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Mar
2015
Supporting Grantee Capacity
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Missed this session? View the recording here . Each foundation takes its own approach to thinking about and supporting grantee capacity. GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center, launched a guide called Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening...
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Apr
2015
Social, Environmental and Economic Resiliency - Follow-up to Puerto Rico Learning Tour
Monday, April 13, 2015 -
9:00am to 11:15am
... collaborations underway in San Juan and around the island. Our distinguished panel will offer fresh thinking to systemic ...