Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... a Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund through the Greater Houston Community Foundation that has raised more than $34 million. ...
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New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Lunch at New York City public schools will be available free of charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year, Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the basement cafeteria of a Hell’s Kitchen elementary school...
Ms. Foundation to Philanthropy: Grow Local Economies by Supporting Low Wage Workers and Childcare Access
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... local officials need to take the reigns and steer their community toward economic growth by funding access to ...
Adding Pantries and Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Over the past year, New York City’s three biggest providers of emergency food have reorganized in an effort to feed underserved communities and get ethnic ingredients to specific neighborhoods.
New Study Shows Organic Farming Traps Carbon in Soil to Combat Climate Change
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... carbon into the soil that grows our food. The scientific community has been actively debating whether organic farming ...
New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... including the Ford Foundation, Deutsche Bank AG’s Community Development Finance Group and an affiliate of ...
Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The federal government should identify communities most at risk of flooding and launch a major infrastructure initiative that creates good jobs for a pressing purpose.
Governor Cuomo Announces New Initiatives to Combat Addiction Across New York State
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Gov. Cuomo announced that a $25 million residential center opened on Wards Island and new recovery centers opened in Queens and the Bronx as well as other steps to treat addictions.
Foundation Presidents Defend Donor-Advised Funds—Is That the Best They Can Do?
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... Roundtable, and the Columbus Foundation (on behalf of community foundations)—wrote a letter (which ...
In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... More than 18 months after the effort began, the city and community are at loggerheads over crucial data that has been ...
New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... to new estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. And, by a very similar measure, the past ...
City to Overhaul 11 More Parks on Restoration Program As Its Cost Grows to $318 Million
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... cost $318 million to rehab 67 neighborhood parks under the Community Parks Initiative, up from $285 million originally ...
Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... companies may take the opportunity to support their local community . Colleagues working together to accomplish a shared ...
Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... kosher — and that’s left many in the city’s Jewish community bellyaching about a program they want their kids to ...
Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site
Release Date:
10/10/2017
For years, political rivalries, ethnic disputes and litigation have defined the trajectory of development in a section of Brooklyn that borders Hasidic Jewish, Hispanic and African-American communities.
More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... a nonprofit group representing the workforce development community ... More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ...
The Simons Foundation Awards “Science Everywhere” Grants to Teachers
Release Date:
11/03/2017
... elementary school students to map out areas in their community with high concentrations of carbon dioxide and ...
The J.M. Kaplan Fund Announces 2017 J.M.K. Innovation Prize Winners
Release Date:
11/17/2017
... Kaplan Fund takes solace in the knowledge that so many community -based change agents are rising up to tackle a ...
Aetna Foundation Supports Anti-Bullying Campaign
Release Date:
11/17/2017
Aetna Foundation’s Cultivating Healthy Communities program has awarded SPOT 127, KJZZ’s Youth Media Center, a $65,000 grant to implement a peer-to-peer multimedia bullying and cyberbullying prevention project.
New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"
Release Date:
11/20/2017
NYSHealth grantees and partners are working together with residents and local organizations in Brownsville to increase access to healthy and affordable foods and empower residents through urban farms and gardens, farmers markets, and other nutrition...