Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes
Release Date:
03/16/2016
... a Pakistani advocate for indentured laborers who helps extricate them from debt; and a Roman Catholic priest ...
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Welcomes New Trustees to its Board
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... of the Refugee Center Online, a nonprofit that helps refugees and displaced persons successfully reintegrate ...
New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana
Release Date:
08/25/2016
New York Life announced today that it will donate $100,000 to aid flood relief efforts in Louisiana with a $50,000 donation to the American Red Cross, a $25,000 donation to Baton Rouge Area Foundation Flood Relief Fund and $25,000 to the Greater...
Commonwealth Fund's Blumenthal on Patient Difficulties Accessing Medical Records
Release Date:
09/09/2016
“Average people encounter a huge amount of difficulty,” said David Blumenthal, a former national coordinator for health information technology for the Obama administration, now president of the Commonwealth Fund. He said he had heard countless...
HSC Calls for Comments on Fair Labor Standards Act Effects on Nonprofits
Release Date:
11/28/2016
As nonprofits prepare to comply with the new Fair Labor Standards Act rule on exempt employee status, which will take effect on December 1, the State is accepting comments on its own proposed rule, which would set an even higher threshold.
BNY Mellon and United Nations Foundation Publish Report for Advancing Gender Equality
Release Date:
01/26/2017
On Saturday, more than three million people around the country -- that's one out of every 100 Americans -- and upwards of another 250,000 people around the world marched in the name of gender equality.
Open Society Foundations Releases Video Showing A New Outlook on Growing Up Intersex
Release Date:
02/27/2017
In Uganda, growing up as an intersex person is a complicated, often dangerous experience.
Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President
Release Date:
03/08/2017
Erica Dunbar, who grew up in Philadelphia, is one of the more than 700 Mellon Mays PhDs who are not only helping to diversify university faculty in the United States, but who are also contributing groundbreaking scholarship and rising to the highest...
Two Weeks Left to Apply to The J.M.K. Innovation Prize
Release Date:
04/14/2017
The Prize is an exciting initiative of The J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation. In 2017, up to ten Prizes will be awarded to those tackling our country's most pressing needs through social innovation.
AARP, Commonwealth Fund Release State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Seniors
Release Date:
06/15/2017
Washington State and Minnesota are top-ranked states again, but all states lag in helping care for the growing populations of people aging and living with disabilities.
New Milbank-Supported Report: The Impact of Primary Care Practice Transformation on Cost, Quality, and Utilization
Release Date:
07/11/2017
... of the Milbank Memorial Fund. “The PCPCC evidence report helps everyone learn what is working and what adjustments to ...
Carnegie Sponsors 9/11 Commemoration "Tribute in Light"
Release Date:
09/07/2017
2017 marks the first year in which the 9/11 "Tribute in Light" will be presented by a sponsor, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, who along with helping install the display, has also aided the 9/11 memorial by starting a program that allows small...
Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings
Release Date:
09/29/2017
Humanitarian assistance relies on a charity model of providing immediate relief in emergency situations. But once the emergency has passed, other approaches might better deliver services in a market-driven, customer-centric way.
Ford Foundation Awards 25 Fellowships to US Artists Driving Social Change
Release Date:
10/02/2017
The Ford Foundation today announced 25 new Art of Change fellowships that will support visionary artists and cultural leaders in creating powerful works of art that help advance freedom, justice, and inclusion, and strengthen our democracy.
Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Cofounder and former Executive Director of Young Invincibles Jen Mishory and Skadden Fellow and attorney Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation, a leading progressive public policy think tank with offices in New York and Washington, D.C.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards $26 Million in Grants
Release Date:
10/05/2017
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in Agoura Hills, California, has announced fourteen third-quarter grants totaling $26 millio n.
NYSHealth Selects Seven Hospitals to Receive Grant Funds to Implement OpenNotes
Release Date:
10/12/2017
NYSHealth Selects Seven Hospitals to Receive Grant Funds to Implement OpenNotes The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) has selected seven hospitals across the State for grant awards totaling nearly $900,000 to help them...
Ford, J.M.Kaplan, Teagle and David Rockefeller Fund All Working to Bring College Into Prison
Release Date:
10/30/2017
A small but steadily growing prison education program continues to expand with the help of some big foundations. The Prison to College Pipeline Program (P2CP), one of several programs offered by the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of...
New App Plentiful, Funded By The Helmsley Charitable Trust, Streamlines How NYC Food Pantries Feed The Hungry
Release Date:
12/04/2017
A new phone app and reservation system offers those in need of nutritional assistance a fast way to find a meal — just in time for winter.
With Support from Gerstner and Heckscher Foundations, SUNY Announces Emergency Aid to Support Degree Completion Among Students
Release Date:
12/19/2017
Starting next year, University at Albany students who are at risk of dropping out due to sudden financial hardship or some other emergency situation could be eligible to apply for emergency aid.