Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers
Release Date:
04/13/2016
... workers in disputes with employers. The bill would create a Division of Paid Care under the recently-established ...
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Nathan Cummings Foundation Selects Loren Harris as Vice President of Programs
Release Date:
04/19/2016
The Nathan Cummings Foundation announced that Loren S. Harris, a philanthropic leader with more than 20 years experience challenging structural barriers to equality and creating economic opportunity and social inclusion, will join the Foundation as...
Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services
Release Date:
05/24/2016
... across the country receive funding and expertise to create opportunities for vulnerable families to access ...
Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead
Release Date:
12/15/2016
... of support for the 1980s-style “war on drugs” will create some serious conflicts with states that are rapidly ...
Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition
Release Date:
01/10/2017
... as "giving while living." Atlantic's final investment will create the Frank H.T. Rhodes Fund for The Cornell Tradition .....
Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding
Release Date:
03/17/2017
Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.
Aetna Foundation Supports 'Magnobrain' Educational Games for Kids
Release Date:
03/27/2017
The games where distributed through their “Inspire Me to Learn” initiative founded by a grant of $30,000 from the Aetna Foundation.
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation-A Leader in the Growth of Community Development Financial Institutions
Release Date:
04/04/2017
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation’s most recent gift is another $3.8 million in grant money to fund Local Initiatives Support Corporation's (LISC)- a community development financial institutions created by the Ford Foundation- Financial...
MetLife Foundation Innovation Competition Recognizes Indian Entrepreneur
Release Date:
05/03/2017
In a competition that featured more than 100 innovative entries from all over India, the entrepreneur who won is creating an android-based illustrative money management tool to be used on low cost smartphones by sub-illiterate groups.
JPMorgan Chase’s Investment in Detroit to Reach $150 Million
Release Date:
05/11/2017
... for what can be accomplished when leaders work together to create economic growth and opportunity,” said Jamie Dimon, ...
William T. Grant Publishes How Social Science Research Can Improve Youth Outcomes In The Real World
Release Date:
05/17/2017
... and we urge universities and professional associations to create structures and incentives to support theoretically and ...
Bloomberg Backed “Global Street Design Guide” Now Available Free Online
Release Date:
05/22/2017
The Global Street Design Guide, a handbook for cities around the world to design safe, sustainable streets, is available to the public as for free online. The guide was funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has made road safety a top priority .
Commonwealth Fund: In the Healthcare Aftermath
Release Date:
08/02/2017
... the ACA, and lay the groundwork for progress. If we can create the political and mental space for such a bipartisan ...
Philanthropy vs. Tyranny: Inside the Open Society Foundations' Biggest Battle Yet
Release Date:
08/21/2017
The Open Society Foundations is bigger than you think. In fact, it may be the largest philanthropic organization ever built, with branches in 37 countries.
United Hospital Fund Report Examines Ramifications of Eligible Adults Refusing Prescribed Home Health Care
Release Date:
08/24/2017
... of interpersonal skills and professional expertise to create those conditions, beginning with educating the patient ...
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Supports Exhibition of Contemporary Women Abstractionists
Release Date:
08/25/2017
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has provided support for an exhibition at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University titled Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists featuring the work of seven artists who hail from across...
Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
Release Date:
08/24/2017
... art, full of shady practices, then that’s what you will create . If you think it’s about convincing people to buy ...
Artists Behind ‘Tribute in Light’ 9/11 Memorial Continue to Inspire: ‘People Could Start Looking Up Again’
Release Date:
09/11/2017
On the night of September 11, 2001, artists Paul Myoda and Julian LaVerdiere watched from Brooklyn as an ashy and gaseous cloud formed over the remnants of the World Trade Center.
These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... To It? The international climate-fighting pact would create jobs, Google said. Leaving the deal known as the Paris ...
High-Level UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend
Release Date:
09/22/2017
At the United Nations, His Excellency Prof. Alpha Condé, President of Guinea and Chairperson of the African Union, convened a high-level meeting to strengthen the partnership with the private sector and discuss opportunities created by Africa’s...