A Benefit of Free Lunch for All: Fewer Students Get Repeatedly Suspended, New Study Suggests
Release Date:
09/19/2018
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What’s Hindering Most Youth in Foster Care From Studying After High School?
Release Date:
09/21/2018
Half of U.S. Uber Drivers Make Less Than $10 an Hour After Vehicle Expenses, According to a New Study
Release Date:
10/04/2018
Two Out of Five Working NYC Households Can’t Afford Basic Necessities, Study Reveals
Release Date:
11/16/2018
Study: Emergency Medical Services Take 10 Percent Longer to Get to Poor Neighborhoods
Release Date:
12/04/2018
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2020
The COVID-19 Origin Story: A Case Study - A Webinar Hosted by Media Impact Funders
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Where did COVID-19 come from? As its origin remains the subject of scientific debate, we as a society must confront our own behavior and its devastating effects on the environment. We must ask ourselves what environmental actions can we take to...
Women in Leadership: Why It Matters
Publication date:
05/2016
It’s no secret that women have historically faced greater barriers than men when it comes to fully participating in the economy. Across geographies and income levels, disparities between men and women persist in the form of pay gaps, uneven opportunities for advancement, and unbalanced representation in important decision-making.
Impact Investing in Education: An Overview of the Current Landscape
Publication date:
01/2014
... that can increase the availability and allocation of resources for education systems. Impact Investing in ...
Race to Lead; Confronting the Racial Leadership Gap
Publication date:
06/2017
The Building Movement Project released "Race to Lead; Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap." This new report, the first in the Race to Lead series, is based on our survey of over 4,000 nonprofit professionals. The report explores why people of color are still under-represented in nonprofit CEO/Executive Director positions.
Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector
This report reveals that women of color encounter systemic obstacles to their advancement over and above the barriers faced by white women and men of color. Education and training are not the solution—women of color with high levels of education are more likely to be in administrative roles and are more likely to report frustrations about inadequate and inequitable salaries. BMP’s call to action focuses on systems change, organizational change, and individual support for women of color in the sector.
Commonwealth Fund’s Biennial Health Insurance Survey Finds People with Medicaid Have Better Access to Health Care Than the Uninsured and Fewer Medical Bill Problems
Release Date:
04/27/2017
Having Medicaid is not only substantially better than being uninsured, but it provides enrollees with health insurance that on most measures is as good as or, in some cases, better than private coverage, according to new a Commonwealth Fund report.
New Paper From Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Perella Weinberg Partners Finds Investors Can Pursue Impact Without Sacrificing Returns
Release Date:
02/20/2019
The paper details how the Rockefeller Brothers Fund employs all three strategies in its mission-aligned investment efforts.
Eleven-Country Survey, Conducted by The Commonwealth Fund, Finds Doctors in U.S. and Abroad Have Problems Coordinating Care with Social Service Providers
Release Date:
12/10/2019
Primary care doctors in the U.S. struggle to coordinate care and communicate with other health and social service providers, according to results from the 2019 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey, published by the journal Health...
Sharing What Matters: Foundation Transparency
Publication date:
03/2016
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) examined the perspectives of foundation CEOs and learned that there is much agreement on the audiences for their transparency efforts. Foundation CEOs also agree about what they believe is the most important information to share with those audiences.However, foundation practice lags behind CEOs’ beliefs.
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards $4.7 Million to Fund Three Studies on Dietary Interventions for Crohn's Disease
Release Date:
11/16/2020
... Charitable Trust Awards $4.7 Million to Fund Three Studies on Dietary Interventions for Crohn's Disease New ... today it is awarding three grants to fund separate studies to inform evidence-based...
Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations
Release Date:
09/09/2016
Results challenge standard model of how animals and humans cool off.
First-of-its-kind Study From the Century Foundation: How Well Does Your State Support Integration in Charter Schools?
Release Date:
04/04/2019
With the enrollment flexibility and design choices available to them, charter schools have the potential to help reverse trends of school segregation—or to further isolate students by race and class.
A $24 Million New York City Program Was Supposed to Prepare More Black and Latino Men for College. But a New Study Found It Didn’t.
Release Date:
05/09/2018
21
Oct
2021
Change Makers Activate -- Supporting Innovative State Policies: A Case Study of State EITCs - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network
Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 1:00pm
Together we'll explore the role philanthropy can play to support innovations along the way --from seeding ideas to ensuring full scale implementation -- and all the twists and turns in between.
5/19/2015 - Economic Inequality and Mobility: Looking at the Evidence to Inform Philanthropy’s Actions - Live stream recording & Presentations
Publication date:
05/2015
View materials and the live stream recording of the program, "Economic Inequality and Mobility: Looking at the Evidence to Inform Philanthropy’s Actions."