As 12 Early Community Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’s Long-term Commitment
Release Date:
06/17/2016
... and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio, one of the nation ’s most outspoken champions of those schools. The ...
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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... Union, enjoy some of the healthiest endowments in the nation despite not considering legacy status in admissions ...
Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year
Release Date:
08/11/2016
100-day challenges will start on Sept. 7 in Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Austin.
Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change
Release Date:
09/06/2016
As the globe continues to spin toward a future with higher temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease if farmers do not adapt to new management or technology practices.
Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children
Release Date:
09/07/2016
New research suggests that school districts can stave off the summer slide by offering free, voluntary programs that mix reading and math instruction with sailing, arts and crafts, and other summer staples.
Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
Release Date:
09/30/2016
Voluntary summer-learning programs can help narrow academic achievement gaps between children from low-income families and those from high-income families, a report from the Wallace Foundation and the RAND Corporation finds.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans
Release Date:
10/07/2016
... accounts. At least 1.5 million of these workers are in the nation ’s largest city, according to research by the New ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Welcomes Nicole Gueron to Board of Directors
Release Date:
10/17/2016
Brooklyn Community Foundation announces the election of Nicole Gueron, co-founder of the law firm Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLP, to its board of directors, effective September 30, 2016.
Helmsley-backed DATA2GO.NYC's Veterans Data Highlighted by Social Science Research Council
Release Date:
11/11/2016
SSRC’s measure of America program expands always-accessible online data tool, but finds NYC Vets sometime lag behind the national average.
Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families
Release Date:
11/16/2016
... supported nonprofits that assist those who have served our nation with honor. For us, this is also personal. A picture ...
Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism
Release Date:
11/18/2016
... of course, but certainly better than any European or Asian nation today. It’s an extraordinary success story. But how ...
Racial Justice Is at Heart of Brooklyn Community Foundation Shift
Release Date:
12/06/2016
... and low-income communities in our borough and across our nation .” Indeed, The Sentencing Project ...
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs
Release Date:
01/06/2017
... Obamacare without replacing them right away could cost the nation 3 million jobs and trigger negative economic impacts ...
Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference
Release Date:
01/18/2017
... organization, and the Russell Sage Foundation , the nation 's premier foundation devoted to social science .....
Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration
Release Date:
02/03/2017
... Street executives who will be charged with overseeing the nation ’s financial and banking sectors. Others are ...
Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies
Release Date:
02/15/2017
A new study finds that nearly one in four people who seek emergency care for eye problems have mild conditions, and recommends ways to help those patients get the right level of care.
Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature
Release Date:
02/17/2017
... of young math wizards has drawn little attention in a nation where racial equality in the basic institutions of ...
Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many States On Healthcare Scorecard
Release Date:
03/16/2017
The Affordable Care Act has led to better healthcare outcomes nationwide and states like New Jersey that chose to embrace the federal law have seen greater improvements than those that did not, according to a national ranking released Thursday.
Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health
Release Date:
03/17/2017
... lives," says Aetna. The foundation cited just a few of the nation 's many alarming health stats: Thirteen percent of .....
Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding
Release Date:
03/17/2017
Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.