Instead of Retiring, Many Seek 'Encore' Jobs
Release Date:
07/07/2014
... of the 100 million people in that age range, work in what are sometimes called "encore" jobs . An additional 31 .....
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On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights
Release Date:
07/10/2014
... Foundation for Women is to "diversify our grant making and what philanthropy looks like." She also tells the .....
Financing the Social Sector
Release Date:
09/15/2014
... Social Sector Despite the huge success of this summer' s ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and various crowd-funding ... initiatives on Kickstarter and other social media sites, what the nonprofit sector really...
RPA Announces Ebola Survival Fund
Release Date:
10/29/2014
... outbreak, as well as working to strengthen the region’ s health-care delivery infrastructure. Troubled by the U. S . public and media response to the Ebola outbreak, actor ... Survival Fund with RPA as a way to...
Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps
Release Date:
11/03/2014
... Causes Consider Their Next Steps The Arcus Foundation’ s latest effort in support of gay and lesbian issues began ... speaks to a bubbling uncertainty among the movement’ s philanthropic vanguard. After a...
Century Foundation Releases New Report on Labor Market Recovery
Release Date:
11/06/2014
... average American thinks the current rate is 32 percent. What explains the disconnect between a supposedly improving ... pretty terrible? In a new report released today, TCF’ s Mike Cassidy says that part of...
From Poverty to Giving Away Millions: Darren Walker Shares His American Dream
Release Date:
11/11/2014
... even at a young age, he tells PEOPLE, "I had a thirst for what was beyond the horizon." His life changed in 1965, when his mother, Beulah Spencer, a nurse' s aide, enrolled the 5-year-old in a...
Whatever Happened to Obama’s ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ in NYC?
Release Date:
11/12/2014
Whatever Happened to Obama’ s ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ in NYC? When Mayor de Blasio ... and received federal planning grants of up to $500,000 for what the Obama administration called the Promise ... Neighborhoods...
Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate
Release Date:
11/20/2014
... of big money in the fight for immigration reform. Here' s a look at four of those wealthy donors, which have given a ... immigration, and the role they have played leading up to what is sure to be a...
President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations
Release Date:
12/17/2014
President’ s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations ... eligible for temporary legal status under the president’ s executive action on immigration announced in November. ... be eligible. The...
The Commonwealth Fund Recaps Health Care in 2014
Release Date:
12/23/2014
... The problem isn’t finding historic events to note, it’ s pruning the list. Here’ s a crack at some things that we at The Commonwealth Fund ... For health care reformers, the old adage of “be careful ...
Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free
Release Date:
01/16/2015
... systems that could be vulnerable to attack. That’ s why Microsoft is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, ... for multiple cities over a period of time to share what we’ve learned from operating some the...
Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films
Release Date:
01/22/2015
... Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films What happens when specific groups of people are not seen or ...
Ford Foundation Bets on Slow Food Movement to Help Global Poor
Release Date:
01/23/2015
... Movement to Help Global Poor Mention "slow food" and it' s hard not to think of a more affluent crowd of foodies and ... luxury to think in highly intentional ways about how and what they eat...
TCC Group Exlpores a New Approach to Capacity Building
Release Date:
02/03/2015
... of capacity building (the how) without identifying clearly what capacities need to be built and who needs to build ...
Carnegie VP of Education Profiled in Huffington Post
Release Date:
02/26/2015
... the system. A significant piece of my work was focused on what we now refer to as "human capital," or the people side .....
William T. Grant Foundation-Funded Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying
Release Date:
05/01/2015
... on mental health in adulthood than originally thought. What ’ s more, the impact may even be worse long-term for bullied ... or both during childhood. The participants from the U. S . were part...
Rockefeller Foundation-Funded Research Examines the Dearth of Youth Employment Opportunities
Release Date:
05/28/2015
... Examines the Dearth of Youth Employment Opportunities What would happen if everyone in your office younger than 25 years old just disappeared? That’ s the question asked — and hopefully answered — via a ...
Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality
Release Date:
06/12/2015
... under a sweeping overhaul announced today by the nation’ s second biggest philanthropy. Not only will Ford direct ... operating support to 40 percent of the foundation’ s grant-making budget, projected to be...
Ms. Foundation Helps Film Lab Fight Elder Abuse Through Film
Release Date:
09/09/2015
... producers, also "challenges mainstream perceptions about what it means to be elderly...." Ms. Foundation Helps .....