More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... addition of more seats and new buildings, many families feel the situation is getting worse as existing ...
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New App Helps Students Select NYC Public High Schools
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... to underachieving schools near home, in part because their families often lack counseling that can help them navigate a ...
Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... Superstorm Sandy. Three neighborhoods saw more than 1,000 families exit the program since 2014. The biggest drop was in ...
More Than 1 Million People Uprooted From Their Homes By Lingering Violence In Kasai, DRC
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... fast asleep. He was exhausted from a punishing trek that families are forced to take to escape persistent tensions in ...
Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... apartments, half of which would be rented to low-income families . . . Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an ...
Should We Be Worried That Foreclosure Sales Are Near Recession Levels?
Release Date:
10/10/2017
Reports last week that the number of home foreclosures in New York City had returned to levels last seen at the onset of the Great Recession left many housing experts scratching their heads.
John A. Hartford Foundation Grantee Releases Medicare Advocacy Toolkit
Release Date:
01/16/2018
... provides information to help Medicare beneficiaries, their families , and advocates respond to unfair Medicare denials. ...
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports Research to Diagnose Hypoglycemia
Release Date:
05/25/2018
A $150,000 grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will support research at Saint Louis University led by scientist Gina Yosten, Ph.D. Yosten’s team is pursuing solutions for people with diabetes who are at risk of life-...
Communicating Your Foundation’s 990-PF
Release Date:
12/21/2011
As foundation communications become more and more strategic, the 990-PF—an annual information return filed by exempt private foundations—has become an essential tool, not only for grantmakers, but for the media, policymakers, and grantees as well.
Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City
Release Date:
11/08/2012
New York is one of the most vibrant urban agriculture cities in the United States, with more than 700 existing sites (there are nearly 3 times as many farms and gardens in the city as there are Starbucks locations).
Small Nonprofit Newsroom Wins Pulitzer for Reporting
Release Date:
04/16/2013
InsideClimate News, a five-year-old nonprofit environmental journalism outlet supported in part by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its investigation of a pipeline oil spill in Michigan.
Among Young Inheritors, an Urge to Redistribute
Release Date:
03/25/2013
This article on "trust-fund progressives" includes comments from Bessemer Trust Chief Fiduciary Counsel James L. Kronenberg.
Komen Cancels 2014 Fundraising Events in Seven Cities
Release Date:
06/07/2013
... participation continues to drop more than a year after a funding controversy involving Planned Parenthood... Komen ...
New Trees and Community Gardens Sprout from ConEd Blackout Settlement
Release Date:
05/22/2014
[North Star Fund] Years after a blackout wiped out power in swaths of western Queens, money from a settlement with Con Edison has been used to turn over a new, green leaf in the neighborhoods affected by it — including 962 trees and 40 new school...
Rohit Burman Appointed Executive Director, Global Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship, Estee Lauder Companies
Release Date:
11/04/2014
PNY board member, Rohit Burman, has been named Executive Director, Global Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship for Estée Lauder Companies
Dodge Foundation President Weighs in on NJ Sewer System Challenges
Release Date:
03/13/2015
... from so-called combined sewer overflows -- but necessary funding may not be forthcoming New Jersey yesterday issued ...
Bruce and Suzie Kovner Receive 2016 Simon Philanthropy Prize
Release Date:
04/12/2016
The Simon Prize carries a $250,000 award, which goes to a charity of the winner's choice.
Doris Duke Artist Awards Announced
Release Date:
05/03/2016
... will each receive $275,000 “in flexible, multi-year funding as well as financial and legal counseling, ...
Open Society Foundations Public Health Division Director Writes Op-Ed on Health Financing in the Post-Aid Era
Release Date:
07/22/2016
... have been sounding the alarm that the withdrawal of health funding from middle income countries (MICS) will result in a ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Contributes to Startup to Develop a Novel Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
Release Date:
08/10/2016
... 1 diabetes. PDT has secured more than $5 million in funding through a combination of grants from JDRF, the ...