Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies
Release Date:
07/06/2017
... of climate change. Schneiderman's office considers the nation 's chief diplomat a central figure in a case that pits .....
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Unbound Philanthropy is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It?
Release Date:
07/17/2017
How can philanthropy support immigrants in a country that elected a blatantly anti-immigrant president? That’s a question lots of funders have been asking themselves since last November. Interestingly, though, there are very few funders around that...
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...
Verizon Foundation: Innovative Learning Program Addresses Lack of Women in STEM Careers
Release Date:
07/24/2017
Verizon is addressing the need for more women in STEM careers by reaching middle-school girls through a three-week summer learning experience.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Provides New Funding for Latinx Artists
Release Date:
08/11/2017
The 2017 grant season for the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) comes with new investments from the Andrew Mellon Foundation towards the NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA), the launch of new award for emerging filmmakers and status...
Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change
Release Date:
08/21/2017
... giving via his Sea Change Foundation, which is one of the nation 's largest funders of climate and clean energy work. .....
Scientist Asked To Remove ‘Climate Change’ From Grant Blames ‘The Ongoing Politicization Of Science’
Release Date:
08/29/2017
A Northeastern University researcher who was asked to remove any reference to climate change from her Energy Department grant proposal said Monday that she had posted the letter publicly “because I found it to be a stark reminder of the ongoing...
How to Improve Diversity in Corporate America
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Three ways to improve diversity in the corporate America of the future — rather than the past
Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... black students are still vastly underrepresented at the nation ’s top colleges and universities is one sign of how ...
Collective Impact Without Borders
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Successful, multi-national, collective impact efforts require that organizations carefully consider two dimensions of their approach.
Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Carly Zimmerman, a mother and chief executive of Challah for Hunger, argues for paid parental leave.
Opinion: Why Can’t We Get Cities Right?
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Harvey was an epic disaster. And it was a disaster brought on, in large part, by bad policy.
Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week
Release Date:
09/06/2017
Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin next week installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four-year-old bike-share...
BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry
Release Date:
09/06/2017
No Kid Hungry, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger, and BBH NY have launched a social media campaign that uses emojis to combat the issue of hunger nationally. The initiative raises awareness that one out of every six kids...
A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... of Michigan, an activist network pushes Muslims across the nation to address racial injustices. And in California, a ...
Congress Rejects Trump Proposals to Cut Health Research Funds
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Congress has not only rejected the president’s N.I.H. proposal; lawmakers from both parties have joined forces to increase spending on biomedical research.
As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and Communities
Release Date:
09/12/2017
President Trump’s new executive order will roll back efforts to ensure our infrastructure and communities are resilient to flooding and climate change/
Standing Up For Housing Equality
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Members and supporters of the New York Communities for Change (NYCC) held a three-day tent city sit-in and demonstration march to call attention to the color divide on Long Island, specifically in Garden City.
‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?
Release Date:
09/15/2017
As leading Democrats embrace Senator Bernie Sanders’s proposal to vastly expand Medicare to cover all Americans, Republicans are fighting back with familiar critiques of such a single-payer system.
Warm Up Potential Major Donors Via Digital
Release Date:
09/20/2017
Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of philanthropic giving comes from individuals and donor pyramids continue to grow steeper to the point that, today, as much as 95 percent of dollars into organizations via individual giving are given by 5 percent...