Carnegie President Says Humanitarians Can Have Impact on Refugee Crisis
Release Date:
04/26/2016
... taken action, 27 percent did so after hearing a personal story about refugees. "What is encouraging is that the .....
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At the Rockefellers’ Kykuit, Painterly Gardens and a Rosy Legacy
Release Date:
05/23/2016
... Kykuit, Painterly Gardens and a Rosy Legacy The story of the American industrial, philanthropic and political ...
Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary
Release Date:
11/01/2016
... waste around the world in a new documentary. "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste" will be produced by the "Parts Unknown" .....
Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism
Release Date:
11/18/2016
... and faiths, are amazed that we manage to pull it off. Not perfectly, of course, but certainly better than any ... or Asian nation today. It’s an extraordinary success story . But how should this diversity shape...
Stonewall Community Foundation Is Key Funder of Trans and Queer Storytelling
Release Date:
12/09/2016
... Tangerine garnered critical acclaim and media buzz, but not all of it was positive. Despite increased portrayal of ...
Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature
Release Date:
02/17/2017
The extreme racial homogeneity in the rarefied realm of young math wizards has drawn little attention in a nation where racial equality in the basic institutions of civic life — schools, housing, health care, policing — remains elusive.
NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing
Release Date:
04/17/2017
... it would commit $1 billion to investments that “earn not only attractive financial returns but concrete social ...
Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting
Release Date:
06/05/2017
GroundTruth has a fellowship program to support journalists in all media, including photographers, documentary filmmakers, radio reporters and podcasters. To date, the project has granted about 150 fellowships of varying durations and dollar amounts.
SeaChange Capital Partners Writes "Coming Back from Bankruptcy: How We Fixed Healing Arts Initiative"
Release Date:
06/06/2017
... attacked to cover up the scam. But the organization’s story wasn’t finished when it declared bankruptcy. Soon ...
Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use
Release Date:
08/10/2017
... Ackman and the board of his Pershing Square Foundation, not knowing what to expect. She blew Ackman away with her first data-crammed slide. Ten minutes later, the story goes, Ackman said the board didn’t want...
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Kicks Off Next Week, Supported by Capital One Bank, Doris Duke and Gilman Foundations
Release Date:
08/17/2017
City Parks Foundation announced the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, which is New York City's annual salute to the legendary late saxophonist, featuring storied veteran players as well as young jazz musicians,
Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education
Release Date:
08/23/2017
PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruffwill air its annual special 5-part “Rethinking College” series, profiling five innovative programs designed to make college more affordable and provide non-traditional students the higher education they need to compete...
‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Racism is at play when only 1% of humanitarian relief funds reach national or local organisations responding to earthquakes in Haiti or in Nepal, or fighting Ebola in west Africa, and when only 2% of humanitarian assistance overall goes to those...
BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... Index of Nonprofit Board Practices tell a different story . Based on a recent biennial survey, any advances ...
How JPMorgan Chase Is Fueling Detroit’s Revival
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... isn’t this boarded up?” Most of the one- and two- story buildings are clad in drab painted plywood or the ...
Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... anecdotes about failed charters are real, but they’re not the norm.” The most striking thing about the coverage ... readers of the the Upshot, its data site, have absorbed a story of a movement producing clear...
Child-Welfare Agency Gets Props for New Approach to Helping Families Navigate Challenges
Release Date:
09/20/2017
Happy stories rarely land the city’s child-welfare system in the headlines, and the last few weeks have been no exception.
7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week
Release Date:
09/25/2017
7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week No single story can encapsulate one of the most frenetic and ...
The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy
Release Date:
09/27/2017
The rates hookworm infection found in Lowndes County, AL—one of the poorest counties in the state, three-quarters of whose residents are African-American (as were all of those tested in the study)—have not improved much from levels a century ago.
Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings
Release Date:
09/28/2017
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.