Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation President Says Jersey Water Works Initiative is a Powerful Collaboration
Release Date:
04/27/2016
... for 2016. Focus areas include improving water system efficiency and engaging community members in ...
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Rockefeller Foundation Launches YieldWise, a $130 Million Initiative to Halve Post-Harvest Loss
Release Date:
05/26/2016
... to Halve Post-Harvest Loss The earth’s global food system is facing a quiet crisis—one-third of all food ...
Century Foundation Study Finds Explosion in the Number of School Districts Working on Integration
Release Date:
10/14/2016
A study released Friday by the Century Foundation, a think tank focused on inequity, found that 100 school districts and charter schools across the country are currently pursuing socioeconomic diversity plans — a number that has more than doubled...
Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Writes About the Privilege of Being Privileged
Release Date:
10/20/2016
... don’t create or sustain it. Focus instead on building a system that produces less of the stuff in the first place. ...
How to Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Girls of Color
Release Date:
01/12/2017
... Black girls out of school and into the juvenile justice system . Advocates, educators and policymakers alike are ...
The 10 Companies with the Best CSR Reputations in 2017
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... employees, scoring each with its proprietary RepTrak Pulse system ... The 10 Companies with the Best CSR Reputations in ...
MetLife Foundation Launches $200 Million Campaign for Financial Inclusion
Release Date:
10/28/2013
PND reported on the MetLife Foundation's five-year, $200 million campaign to bring financial services to low-income communities in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the United States.
Unions, Reform Groups Gird for California-Inspired Lawsuit
Release Date:
06/17/2014
... to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state ’s tenure laws and possibly many other teacher ... and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case...
Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant Outreach
Release Date:
09/02/2014
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, plans to refocus grant distribution to sectors the foundation is not currently funding, but has supported in the past.
Open Society Foundations Announces $50 Million Gift to ACLU
Release Date:
11/07/2014
The money will go towards the ACLU's effort to overhaul the justice system.
Tow Foundation President Emily Tow Jackson Supports Governor Cuomo's Recommendation to Raise the Age
Release Date:
01/20/2015
... Cuomo's Recommendation to Raise the Age New York state should raise the age that youths can be tried and ... Public Safety & Justice as a legislative package to the State Assembly. “I’m incredibly...
ASPCA Cautions Against Using New Cannabis Treats for Ailing Pets
Release Date:
04/23/2015
The organization's medical director discusses the lack of research on the therapeutic uses of marijuana for animals.
UJA-Federation Launches Campaign for Passage of Education Tax Credit
Release Date:
05/27/2015
... to push – over the next six weeks – for New York State legislators to pass the Education Tax Credit bill. ... be in Albany every day, meeting with Assembly Members and State Senators to discuss the important...
Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South
Release Date:
05/29/2015
The South makes up 49 percent of all new HIV diagnoses.
Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban
Release Date:
07/14/2015
... well using a waterless method that will test the state ’s fracking ban. The Snyder Farm Group, made up of ... filed an application for a natural-gas well with New York state regulators last week.... Well...
Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed
Release Date:
10/22/2015
New report from Carnegie shows today's volume of immigrants. Nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States since 1965, making this nation the world’s top destination for people moving from one country to another.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Poll Finds Broad Support For Clean Power Plan
Release Date:
04/28/2016
Bloomberg Philanthropies released the results of a poll that examined the attitudes of voters toward the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in four key states: Florida, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin. In each of these states, attorneys general have sued the...
Co-Sponsored by Simmons Foundation, New Report Examines Immigrants, Refugees and the Future of Texas
Release Date:
07/11/2016
... linked to the immigrants and refugees who call the state home. One in three children in Texas—most of whom are U.S. citizens—has a foreign-born parent, and the state ’s foreign-born population is growing six...
Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative
Release Date:
10/13/2016
... Foundation has selected seven universities and their state and district partners to participate in a new ... university principal preparation programs and to examine state policy to see if it could be...
Campuses Confront Hostile Acts Against Minorities After Donald Trump’s Election
Release Date:
11/11/2016
... flag, appeared in men’s restrooms throughout Texas State University: “Now that our man Trump is elected,” ... toward cultural differences, the distribution of the Texas State fliers was just one of several...