Russell Sage President Says He Is Optimistic on Poverty and Income Issues
Release Date:
09/14/2016
... biggest improvement in decades on both fronts. Healthy job growth , coupled with moderate wage gains, lifted the median ...
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With Funds From Helmsley Charitable Trust, Researchers Target Fat to Treat Cancer
Release Date:
09/20/2016
... to obstruct this instrumental process to stifle cancer's growth , detailed September 19, 2016 in Nature Medicine. .....
NY Life Foundation Supports Social- Emotional Learning In Middle Schools
Release Date:
10/05/2016
... self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and growth mindset, to name a few, and they are necessary for ...
Supported by Simons Foundation, Scientists Discover Clues To Altered Brain Wiring In Autism
Release Date:
11/15/2016
... biochemical cascade called the mTOR pathway that regulates growth in the developing brain. A mutation in one of the ...
Republicans Outline Biggest Tax Code Overhaul In A Generation
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... a slow-growing economy. "We want tax reform that is pro- growth , pro-jobs, pro-worker, pro-family, and yes, tax reform .....
Philanthropy New York Welcomes New Office and Conference Manager, Angela Romualdez
Release Date:
05/08/2019
... Academy of Music which has shaped her professional growth . Angela has BA in Theater Arts from the University ...
New Report from PNY and Partners Examines Philanthropy’s Role in Hurricane Sandy Recovery
Release Date:
10/28/2014
... continue to develop innovative solutions that other communities will learn from and build upon in future ... event such as Hurricane Sandy, stress levels are high, communities ’ needs are great, and...
Newly Created Heckscher Foundation Workforce Development Grants Aim to Create More Than 1,100 Full-Time Jobs in New York
Release Date:
07/19/2023
... to produce adequate full-time job opportunities for the communities that need them the most,” said Peter Sloane, ... development programs is aligning student skills with the businesses ’ needs. Without this...
2020 Open Society Fellows Developing Approaches to Counter Economic Inequality
Release Date:
02/06/2020
... a musician-activist uplifting the voices of marginalized communities , a lawyer examining the role of the judiciary in ... perhaps even at odds with each other, will generate the creative friction and energy to...
Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Soros Arts Fellows
Release Date:
07/15/2020
... magnifies inequities in our societies that marginalized communities have faced for generations. That’s why the work ... of flight and refuge, and recognize activists, sanctuary communities , public officials,...
If We Want to Strengthen Democracy, Let's Start in Our Back Yard
Release Date:
04/14/2021
... participation and narrow participation gaps across NYC’s communities . We want NYC to be a voter-friendly city with a ... including organizing, mobilization through human services, creative partnerships and...
Dominick Impemba and Susan Kish Join the Foundation Center Board of Trustees
Release Date:
05/01/2013
... the collaboration and integration of the company's global businesses . This role encompasses a wide-ranging portfolio .....
Hurricane Sandy Recovery Funds
... in need in the New York City metro region's Asian-American communities : The Breezy Point Disaster Relief Fund, Inc. will ... efforts that may arise from Hurricane Sandy. These resources will be directed...
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2023
Philanthropy’s Voice in Policy, Practice, & Power-Shifting for Housing Justice - A Webinar Hosted by Funders Together to End Homelessness
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 -
2:00pm to 3:15pm
This webinar is the second in a series highlighting how our members across the country are grappling with difficult juxtapositions between supporting immediate policy reform while co-creating a more visionary, liberated future.
Increasing Impact, Enhancing Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Leading Corporate Philanthropy
Publication date:
04/2012
What is the role of corporate philanthropy in business and society? This guide offers original field research and provides clear and practical paths forward for the future of the field and the role of corporate foundations, including a five element agenda for leaders of corporate foundations and giving programs to advance their practice and profession.
De Blasio drafts biz execs to push pre-K tax
Release Date:
01/29/2014
Several business executives, including Lee Wasserman, Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, have signed on to Mayor de Blasio's plan to raise taxes to fund citywide pre-K and after-school programs, reported Crain's New York Business.
Eli Broad, Patron of Los Angeles, To Step Down From His Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/16/2017
Eli Broad, a billionaire who has been a dominant figure in this city’s cultural, philanthropic, business and political world for almost 50 years, announced on Thursday that he is stepping down from public life, saying that it was “time to move on.”
Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, CEO of Edwin Gould Foundation, Announced in New Class of Leaders for Pahara-Aspen Fellowship
Release Date:
01/22/2020
... excellence and equity movement, facilitates their dynamic growth , and strengthens their collective efforts to ... schools, especially those serving low-income children and communities . The Fellowship provides...
Initiative Launched to Improve Accountability of Climate Change Adaptation Finance
Release Date:
12/12/2012
... by Oxfam, the Overseas Development Institute and the World Resources Institute to increase the transparency and ... Oxfam, the Overseas Development Institute, and the World Resources Institute with funding...
What Does It Take to Spend Down Successfully?
Publication date:
08/2015
... they intend to give away all of their philanthropic resources within a specific, limited timeframe and then close ... their grantmaking. But most hope that by exhausting their resources in relatively short order, they will be able to ...