Lincoln Center Scraps a $500 Million Geffen Hall Renovation
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... the shell of the 1962 Max Abramovitz-designed building and creating a new concert hall within it. The retrenchment is ...
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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job
Release Date:
10/10/2017
The recovery from the crisis of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so little growth created so many jobs.
Universal Deduction Bill Draws Measured Praise
Release Date:
10/13/2017
Leaders of nonprofit advocacy organizations have applauded legislation introduced to create a universal charitable deduction for all taxpayers but note concerns about limiting it to a third of the standard deduction.
Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects
Release Date:
10/13/2017
The Rockaway Youth Task Force has a long waiting list of families who want spots in its community garden, but more of those aspiring harvesters might be tending fresh veggies soon thanks to a new crowdfunding effort by the New York City Housing...
Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?
Release Date:
10/13/2017
Real male allies tend to have three things in common as agents of organizational change. Debra Meyerson and Megan Tompkins’s research, using the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan, finds that allies need...
As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?
Release Date:
10/18/2017
After Bloomberg Philanthropies recently gave another $64 million to a campaign that’s closing down coal plants in the United States, one telling headline came from the Courier-Journal in Louisville: “New York City billionaires are battling over coal...
Citi Community Development Is Partner in NYC’s First Citywide Community Land Trust
Release Date:
10/25/2017
... NYC’s first citywide CLT. Its primary focus will be creating permanently affordable homeownership opportunities ...
The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy
Release Date:
10/30/2017
After Superstorm Sandy, Rebuild by Design — a design competition from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Rockefeller Foundation — launched a project for cities and towns affected by the storm and residents to come up with...
Rita Allen Foundation Supported Report Finds That Civic Tech Struggles with Sustainable Funding Despite Gains
Release Date:
10/31/2017
A new report has found that while civic tech is a growth industry, it is one largely filled with organizations struggling to create sustainable business models.
Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants
Release Date:
11/17/2017
Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation announces $1.6 million in new awards to support nursing driven innovation for vulnerable populations.
“Reducing Food Loss and Food Waste” Video From The Rockefeller Foundation Funded 2017 Food Tank Summit
Release Date:
11/21/2017
How Do We Create a Food Waste and Loss Free World?
OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros
Release Date:
11/27/2017
Hungarian-American financier and philanthropist George Soros has denounced a Hungarian government campaign against him as "distortions and lies" designed "to create an outside enemy to distract citizens."
The Commonwealth Fund Supports Tool to Encourage Patient Contribution to Clinical Notes
Release Date:
12/08/2017
Funded by The Commonwealth Fund, OurNotes is an extension of the nationwide OpenNotes, a movement to offer patients ready, online access to their clinicians’ visit notes. Currently, more than 20 million patients across the country have electronic...
‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism
Release Date:
12/08/2017
The Mellon Lecture Series, which will continue into the spring semester, is made possible by a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship to better understand and...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Sponsored Research Reveals How Cities Can Embrace Innovation Without Sacrificing Public Health and Safety
Release Date:
01/05/2018
The real work for city leaders today is to create not just new rules, but new ways of writing and adjusting regulations that better fit the dynamism and pace of change of cities themselves.
The Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust Gives $740,000
Release Date:
01/16/2018
The $740,000 in new nonprofit grants by the Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust will help kick off education advocacy campaigns statewide.
Watch Another Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations
Release Date:
01/22/2018
... Matt Katz has the story of how new American policies are creating uncertainty for a married Congolese refugee couple ...
JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth
Release Date:
01/23/2018
JPMorgan Chase today announced a $20 billion, five-year comprehensive investment to help its employees, and support job and local economic growth in the United States.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President
Release Date:
02/07/2018
... and partnerships, and dedicated herself consistently to creating , building and sustaining highly successful ...
How Ms. Foundation Sees Taking Children to Work Day as an Opportunity to Build Careers, Education and Upward Mobility
Release Date:
02/09/2018
Ms. Foundation for Women has outlined how to make children at work day a success, so we should use it and tailor it to our local economy.