City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools
Release Date:
06/29/2015
Reps from Girls Who Code and Urban Assembly believe computer skills are critical to long-term success.
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MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China
Release Date:
07/20/2015
The $1.8 million grant will help Opportunity International provide services to 4200 small businesses.
Century Foundation Explores the 'Double Burden' of Poverty
Release Date:
08/12/2015
... in a neighborhood where many other families are poor, too, creating what sociologists call the "double burden" of .....
Prudential Seeks New York's Top Youth Volunteers of 2016
Release Date:
09/09/2015
This program year marks The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards’ 21st year of honoring youth volunteers.
A New Lens for Disaster Recovery
Release Date:
09/16/2015
New York Women's Foundation offers nine investment principles for supporting disaster relief and recovery among under-resourced women and families.
American Express Awards $2.5 Million to Five Innovative Principal Leadership Programs
Release Date:
10/05/2015
The winners were selected from over 70 applicants.
The Source Codes of Foundation Culture
Publication date:
10/2015
... theme that has arisen time and again is the importance of creating and nurturing an organizational culture that enables ...
Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia
Release Date:
11/17/2015
The Atlantic Philanthropies, which will conclude its grant-making commitments next year, announced on Monday the capstone of its work on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study dementia.
Tisch Education Center at Whitney Museum Profiled in Education Update
Release Date:
12/01/2015
The Whitney’s new Laurie M. Tisch Education Center, prominently situated on the third floor of the museum’s new downtown home, was spotlighted in an Education Update article.
Rauch Foundation Announces ‘Imagine Awards’ for Disabilities Inclusion
Release Date:
01/20/2016
Rauch Foundation's Imagine Awards celebrate those who work to create a community where everyone belongs on behalf of people with disabilities in our community.
Ford Foundation-Backed Incubator Generates $100M in Loans, Nearly $1M in Savings
Release Date:
02/11/2016
A new report details how an incubator created by the Filene Research Institute, with funding from Ford Foundation, generated $100 million in loans and nearly $1 million in savings for previously underbanked families.
United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers
Release Date:
02/16/2016
Carol Levine, director of United Hospital Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, speaks on the stress helping with healthcare puts on caregivers, and advises possible solutions.
Commission: US Lacks Strategies to Lower Child Abuse Deaths (Casey Family Programs)
Release Date:
03/18/2016
The United States lacks coherent, effective strategies for reducing the stubbornly high number of children who die each year from abuse and neglect, a commission created by Congress reported. The commission was chaired by David Sanders, of Casey...
Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College
Release Date:
03/22/2016
... and another $1 million from Atlantic Philanthropies are creating the endowment to bring Dr. Goff and the center to ...
Mellon Foundation Awards Guggenheim $3M Endowment For Conservation
Release Date:
03/25/2016
The Guggenheim Museum’s conservation department has received a $3 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its conservation efforts. The grant will endow a position of deputy director and chief conservator and a new...
Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists
Release Date:
04/08/2016
Winners of the 2016 Whiting Awards, given annually to up-and-coming authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, were learning how to handle not just the unexpected payouts but also the complicated emotions that money can inspire.
John A. Hartford Foundation’s Rachael Watman Named VP of Programs at Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation
Release Date:
05/03/2016
In this newly created position, she will help to oversee the Foundation's Innovation and Education portfolios.
Rockefeller Funding of Resilience Officer in Chicago Makes News
Release Date:
05/03/2016
After announcing and filling the new job bankrolled by the Rockefeller Foundation, Mayor Rahm Emanuel struggled to explain just what it is that former Deputy Water Management Commissioner Aaron Koch would be doing in the newly created job.
Kress Foundation Invites Applications for Scholarly European Art Projects
Release Date:
05/09/2016
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation is accepting applications for its History of Art grant program, which supports scholarly projects that enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture, from antiquity to the dawn of the...
Morgan Stanley/ANHD Community Development Fellowship Graduate Class Selected
Release Date:
05/23/2016
The Fellowship is designed to increase the capacity of New York City's community development organizations and to create a pipeline for the next generation of community development leaders.