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Capital One-Funded Report: Women Entrepreneurs On the Rise in NYC
Release Date:
03/04/2016
... construction (34 percent); retail trade (26 percent); health care and social assistance (26 percent); manufacturing ... for women tech entrepreneurs. In the third quarter of 2015 , 16.9 percent of New York City...
NYCT, NoVo on Short List of Foundations who Activiely Fund Domestic Violence Prevention Programs
Release Date:
09/29/2014
The philanthropic community has been slow to support domestic violence prevention measures.
Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films
Release Date:
01/22/2015
Rockefeller Foundation partnered with U.N. Women and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Backs Community Development in Baltimore
Release Date:
05/11/2015
The grant is part of the $1.5 million Summer Youth Initiative in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Family League of Baltimore.
NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal
Release Date:
07/06/2015
... funding to finance public services — the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience was launched in 2012 and ...
The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times
Release Date:
10/13/2015
For-profit colleges that have been accused of fraud are still receiving U.S. funds.
The Source Codes of Foundation Culture
Publication date:
10/2015
Over the last several years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better understand what contributes to and impedes efforts to lead productive change in philanthropy. One theme that has arisen time and again is the importance of creating and nurturing an organizational culture that enables grantmakers to be most effective.
Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College
Release Date:
03/22/2016
A national research center focused on interactions between the police and the communities they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college’s first endowed professor as its director.
Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged
Release Date:
06/28/2016
Non-citizen Latino immigrants may not be able to vote, but they could still help decide the outcome of the upcoming presidential election.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform
Release Date:
06/30/2016
A lack of concrete information about student misconduct—and how to address it—may be hindering efforts to make campuses safer.
Scientists Supported by Simons Foundation Determine How Birds Soar to Great Heights
Release Date:
08/12/2016
Migratory birds often use warm, rising atmospheric currents to gain height with little energy expenditure when flying over long distances.
Supported by Simons Foundation, Study Finds Genetics, Early Term Ultrasound Linked to Autism Severity
Release Date:
09/02/2016
... author Sara Webb, UW Medicine researcher in psychiatry and behavioral sciences. “Where does this disorder develop ...
Rockefeller Foundation Gives $150K to Leading Disaster Relief Organization
Release Date:
11/23/2016
All Hands Volunteers, the leading disaster relief organization powered by volunteers, has been awarded a grant of $150,000 by the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation to establish a Global Rapid Response Fund.
How To Balance Policies And Guidelines To Prompt Different Levels Of Employee Engagement
Release Date:
08/30/2017
Most see policies and guidelines as bureaucratic inhibitors and constraints. However, used the right way, those same policies and guidelines free people to do their jobs by directing focus. They key is applying the right degrees of freedom to prompt...
Mark Zuckerman Named New President of The Century Foundation
Release Date:
02/24/2015
... take the helm as our next President, effective March 2, 2015 ,” said Chairman of the Board, Bradley Abelow. ... workplace discrimination, increasing wages for home health care workers, and expanding access to...
Ford Foundation Appoints Pradeep Nair as Regional Director for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
Release Date:
03/09/2017
... and advised national government agencies on key health and environmental policies. The success of this work ... end of March. He succeeds David Hulse, who since November 2015 has served as interim director...
Wallace Video Series Shows How Illinois Revamped Requirements for Preparation of Principals
Release Date:
10/18/2016
... to lead teaching and learning in their schools. In 2010 , Illinois passed the tougher law, and the results were ... in a four-year, $47-million initiative to develop models for improving university principal...
Grantmakers in the Arts Selects Edwin Torres as New CEO
Release Date:
08/16/2017
... artists, arts education, and nonprofit financial health will continue to be core field work. “GIA’s ...
The Rockefeller Foundation Calls for Transformation of the U.S. Food System to Address the Hunger and Nutrition Crisis
Release Date:
07/28/2020
... food industry executives to social justice, environmental, health and nutrition advocates. The conversations focused on ...