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Funders Teaming Up to Strengthen Voices of LGBTQ People of Color
Release Date:
06/16/2014
... to create the first LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund to support new voices and leaders in communities of color who are ...
Evaluation Shows How Program Related Investments Are Generating Positive Social Returns
Release Date:
06/19/2014
... to products and services on more equitable terms and in new ways to previously excluded populations, and increase the ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College
Release Date:
10/28/2014
... a handful of institutions will announce an ambitious new effort on this front. Led by Bloomberg Philanthropies, ...
Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark
Release Date:
03/12/2015
... and AeroFarms, together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), announce ... agriculture. RBH Group and AeroFarms are building a state -of-the art 69,000 square foot...
Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'
Release Date:
04/03/2015
... is particularly acute among college kids, whose natural state , if we're to believe stodgy old sociologists, is one of ... $515,000 to technology and media organizations to "support new work to build...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project
Release Date:
04/13/2015
... Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities ...
D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years
Release Date:
08/27/2015
... according to an analysis by two professors at Michigan State University of grants by the 15 largest philanthropies ... charter schools or to organizations, including the New Schools Venture Fund, that support...
The Century Foundation Examines Russia's Syrian Conflict Strategy
Release Date:
09/24/2015
... 28, on the heels of a shrewdly publicized deployment of new Russian troops and military equipment to Syria. ...
Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality
Release Date:
11/09/2015
... Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality Under a new strategy announced today, the Ford Foundation will double ...
Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls
Release Date:
02/05/2016
... was organized by NewMexicoWomen.Org, a program of the New Mexico Community Foundation designed to address issues affecting the state ’s women and girls. . . Ms. Foundation CEO Puts ...
Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)
Release Date:
02/11/2016
... a proven educational innovation: school integration. A new report from The Century Foundation, a progressive think ...
Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks
Release Date:
04/29/2016
... The Ford Foundation named Kathy Reich as director of a new foundation initiative to help strengthen institutions and ...
Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary
Release Date:
11/01/2016
... he takes on the issue of food waste around the world in a new documentary. "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste" will be .....
Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... a national effort established to examine the current state of U.S. language education, to project what the ... English: cognitive benefits, important habits of mind, and new and valuable perspectives on the...
Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School
Release Date:
06/01/2017
... billionaire accused Orban of building a “mafia state ” in Hungary. In doing so, he reached for a term that ... of law across the region. Orban’s Fidesz party passed new legislation in April that threatens its...
Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... in Albany, where 42 percent of white students passed the state 's 2017 English language arts exam compared to 27 ... percent of black students. The achievement gap is nothing new . Nationwide, numerous...
Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... of Challah for Hunger, a Philadelphia nonprofit, and my new role as mother. This was because our organization has a ...
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched ...
A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... They take advantage of taxpayer-funded research at state universities. Prison inmates raise cattle in Kentucky, ... all these policies, and what, if any, are the benefits? A new nonprofit organization called...