Bloomberg Launches Worldwide Urban Public Health Initiative
Release Date:
05/18/2017
... of forty cities around the world, the initiative will work to reduce NCDs — including heart disease, stroke, ...
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement
Release Date:
05/19/2017
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that African- Americans and Latinos have less financial security than whites and will rely on fewer sources of income during retirement.
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 .
NYS Health Foundation Co-Authors Column on Blocking Immigrants from Essential Services
Release Date:
06/01/2017
With over 3 million foreign-born residents, immigrants are vital to the health of NYC’s economy and neighborhoods, explains Nisha Agarwal, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs; Steve Banks, the commissioner of the city’s...
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair
Release Date:
06/02/2017
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today announced that Mr. Robert T. Kelly, Jr., who has served as a trustee of the Weinberg Foundation since 2006, has been elected as chair of...
Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary
Release Date:
06/06/2017
A rumpled 60-something legal scholar who has taught animal-rights law at Harvard and Stanford, Steven Wise founded of the Nonhuman Rights Project, which calls itself “the only civil rights organization in the United States working through litigation...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing
Release Date:
06/07/2017
Financial giants, in addition to supporting urban youth and employment, are also steady funders in an area even closer to home: community development and housing.
Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News
Release Date:
06/28/2017
Combating fake news and bolstering the public’s trust in journalism is the aim of a Vanderbilt research project that was selected to receive a share of a $1 million prize through the Knight Prototype Fund.
To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead
Release Date:
07/05/2017
One of Michael Bloomberg's main contributions to the global fight against climate change has been to help mobilize cities to curb greenhouse gas emissions, improving the quality of life for ciitzens. Now, he is looking to do the same with improving...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View
Release Date:
07/06/2017
... urban environments - with an assist from Google. In joint work with Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp ...
Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!
Release Date:
07/19/2017
... best practices needed to embed an equity lens into their work . PLACES fellows embark on a year-long process focused on ...
Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact
Release Date:
08/14/2017
As more investors seek to use their capital as a tool for social change, a group of asset managers and nonprofit leaders is working to spread the practice, and to ensure impact investing stays true to its roots as its popularity grows.
Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
Release Date:
08/24/2017
... completely misaligned with mission-driven work . But selling per se isn’t the culprit here. It’s ...
Democratic Group Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Efforts to Undermine Obama Health Care Law
Release Date:
09/05/2017
For years, Republicans successfully battered Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act.
Standing Up For Housing Equality
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Members and supporters of the New York Communities for Change (NYCC) held a three-day tent city sit-in and demonstration march to call attention to the color divide on Long Island, specifically in Garden City.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... that houses its world-class research collection. The work began this summer. And now the library has secured the ...
Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... 2015 TED Talk, “What Do We Do When Antibiotics Don’t Work Anymore?” journalist and author Maryn McKenna tells ...
Ms. Foundation Centers Black Women, Nonconforming People and Fem(me)s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary Cities
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... Justice Initiative and the Ms. Foundation builds on this work by outlining strategies to protect Black women, girls, ...
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain -- The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will...
Westchester Community Foundation Announces Institute for Strong Nonprofits
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... our bright and innovative nonprofit leaders in their work ,” says Laura Rossi, executive director of the ...