A Better Gala—Here's How Pershing Square Marked a Key Milestone
Release Date:
06/19/2017
... recent years. IP has covered it often. Unlike many, I do find galas interesting events, but snowed under with my own ...
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Morgan Stanley Lights Up Times Square for the New York Women’s Foundation
Release Date:
07/20/2017
The New York Women’s Foundation will be featured in lights of Times Square, thanks to Morgan Stanley’s Lights on Broadway campaign, which builds public awareness of nonprofit organizations.
Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade
Release Date:
07/20/2017
The latest WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic finds that more countries have implemented tobacco control policies, ranging from graphic pack warnings and advertising bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’s...
Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years
Release Date:
08/09/2017
Dozens of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. Carpenter is one in an army of social justice change agents that the Baltimore office of the...
NYPD Boss James O’Neill Vacated Guilty Verdict Against Officer Accused Of Using Banned Chokehold: Sources
Release Date:
08/29/2017
The city’s top cop recently overturned a guilty verdict against an officer in a department misconduct trial. Then the NYPD and the Civilian Complaint Review Board — citing a state law protecting police disciplinary records — wouldn’t say what the...
Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White
Release Date:
08/30/2017
The recent finding by The New York Times that black students are still vastly underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities is one sign of how little the country has managed to do to close racial gaps.
Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... City Housing Authority developments when it’s hard to find funds to clear interior walls of persistent, dangerous ...
Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... As a former principal of a high school in the Bronx, I find it hard to imagine receiving worse news. . . Opinion: ...
Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation
Release Date:
09/12/2017
For children and youth on the move via the Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe, the journey is marked by high levels of abuse, trafficking and exploitation.
High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... applicants to win about $53,000. "Somehow you have to find those guys out there in places like Africa and Latin .....
43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says
Release Date:
09/18/2017
More than 40 percent of the city’s middle and high school students are not getting the sex education required by the state, according to a report released on Thursday by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.
J.J. Watt's Hurricane Relief Fundraising Closes at More Than $37 Million
Release Date:
09/18/2017
It started as a relatively modest (well, relative to where it ended up) organizing of a charitable endeavor, born partially out of a kind heart and partially out of desperation when he couldn't be there to help in person. And in the end, it can be...
The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’s Hard.
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... had to recruit insurers to participate. And they needed to find uninsured residents and persuade them to enroll. A new ...
A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... organization called The Greenfield Project aims to find out. Launched last spring by Liz Hallinan and Ashley ...
Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows
Release Date:
10/02/2017
The prospect of Social Security running out of money in their lifetimes haunts the vast majority of Americans over age 50.
Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... so many important executive matters to tend to, he can’t find time?) After just nine months of controlling policy, ...
NYC Will Miss a Deadline to Accommodate 5 New Charter Schools
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... Department of Education said on Thursday that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the ...
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Civil Conversations in Uncivil Times - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP
Thursday, April 19, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Society is becoming increasingly divisive. What roles can family foundations play in finding ways to support meaningful dialogue across “party lines” within their community?
Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”
Release Date:
12/20/2017
... “working in and through” the marketplace of ideas to find workable solutions to complex problems, such as how to ...
How Ms. Foundation Sees Taking Children to Work Day as an Opportunity to Build Careers, Education and Upward Mobility
Release Date:
02/09/2018
... bridge the various gaps in our world of work today, and to find ways to work even smarter and to introduce new career ...