Mellon Foundation Features Harlem Studio Museum Director on How Art Helps Us Understand Diversity
Release Date:
02/23/2017
... diversity—in racial, socioeconomic, gender, religious, regional , sexual, and other forms—through accessible, ...
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Funded by the Educational Foundation of America, New Study Finds Potential for High-Impact Philanthropy Untapped in South
Release Date:
04/07/2017
Funded by the Educational Foundation of America and the Kresge and Mary Reynolds Babcock foundations, the report argues that the South is fertile ground for philanthropic investment and boasts both the skills and infrastructure necessary to empower...
United Hospital Fund Honors 31 Health Care Trustees
Release Date:
05/02/2017
The honorees were recognized for their extraordinary leadership and service to hospitals, nursing homes, and home care organizations throughout the five boroughs of New York City and neighboring Long Island, Westchester, and New Jersey.
Simons-Funded Research Finds Brain Differences Between People with Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia, Autism
Release Date:
05/25/2017
A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those at risk for autism, and the findings could help explain the biological underpinnings of these neuropsychiatric...
With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Urban Design Team Proposes Outer Borough Light Rail
Release Date:
06/30/2017
... delays bring the "summer of hell" into sharp focus, the Regional Plan Association and Rockefeller Foundation have .....
Open Society Foundations: Central Asia at History’s Crossroads
Release Date:
07/17/2017
Central Asia’s long history of domestic repression and foreign subjugation is well known. Less appreciated, but just as important, is the on-the-ground work activists throughout the region are doing to support the people of Central Asia’s right to...
Cuomo Administration Bullish On State Climate Action After RGGI Agreement
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... caps in future years. The nine states that comprise the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative announced an agreement on ...
Editorial: States Dare to Think Big on Climate Change
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... emissions. Now the nine Northeastern states that form the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have done much the same, ...
Syria’s War Created Millions Of Refugees. Some Might Be Forced To Return Home.
Release Date:
08/28/2017
As Syrian refugees begin to trickle back to a homeland still at war, aid agencies fear that a proposed change to U.N. guidelines could accelerate the pace of returns.
How to Build a Strong Local Food System
Release Date:
08/29/2017
It goes beyond farmers' markets and CSA shares. Before we had ‘local food,’ we just had food. Communities fed themselves with whatever was produced in the region, with farmers selling directly to stores and customers. It was unheard of to truck...
More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer
Release Date:
08/30/2017
More than 1,000 people have died in floods across South Asia this summer, and as sheets of incessant rain pummeled the vast region on Tuesday, worries grew that the death toll would rise along with the floodwaters.
The Next Houston
Release Date:
08/31/2017
Disaster planners have long feared that a direct hurricane hit on Miami or New York could be even more catastrophic than Harvey.
Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up
Release Date:
09/06/2017
A majority of New York voters believe Confederate statues or memorials should stay up, according to a new poll, amid pleas for statues of Southern Civil War icons to be taken down nationwide.
Northeast Needs Trump Commitment to Gateway Project
Release Date:
09/15/2017
After decades working in New York City real estate, Trump likely knows the two deteriorating, century-old train tunnels between New York and New Jersey threaten economic disaster and paralysis for the region and the nation.
Where You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... second largest grantmaker, Fidelity Charitable, highlights regional differences of giving in the United States. The ...
Ralph Wilson's Biggest Gift Yet: $100m to Transform Lasalle Park, Trails
Release Date:
10/17/2018
... West Side into a signature park and to develop a completed regional trail system. The timing is no accident: The $100 ...
The Commonwealth Fund Finds that Middle-income Americans are Paying More for Health Insurance
Release Date:
12/10/2018
... between areas aren't anything new. A recent Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement found healthcare usage and .....
UJA-Federation of New York Mobilizes 3,000 Volunteers for 70 Service Projects on MLK Day
Release Date:
01/16/2019
On Monday, January 21, more than 3,000 New Yorkers will participate in UJA-Federation of New York’s third region-wide MLK Day of Service.
From Vision to Impact
Release Date:
07/11/2018
... structurally significant. All of this is because so many regional and national Philanthropy Serving Organizations ... a new kind of philanthropic network that brings together regional PSOs' deep ...
The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation Announces Desiree Vazquez Barlatt as New Program Officer
Release Date:
07/12/2021
... the operational efforts of Teach for America's New York regional office. The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation .....