LGBTQ Groups Adjust to More Married Donors
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... by just 12 percent. About 9 percent of the organization’ s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender donors are married. ...
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Ms. Foundation to Philanthropy: Grow Local Economies by Supporting Low Wage Workers and Childcare Access
Release Date:
09/08/2017
Today, a new study released by the Ms. Foundation for Women validated that state and local officials need to take the reigns and steer their community toward economic growth by funding access to childcare.
City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year
Release Date:
09/11/2017
The city will bus a record number of homeless students from shelters to public schools this year in an effort to get more kids to class.
Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... in 2016 than in 2011, according to a new report. New York' s unemployment rate is at 4.8 percent and more than 9 million .....
Amid Hurricane Chaos, Domestic Abuse Victims Risk Being Overlooked
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... in disarray and are likely to increase any person’ s or family’ s vulnerability to violence, according to the World Health ...
Middle-Class Incomes Rise, But Census Report Shows Worrying Disparities
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... as poverty declined and the scars of the past decade’ s Great Recession seemed to finally fade. Median household ... gains, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The nation’ s poverty rate fell to 12.7 percent,...
'We're Trying to Go All In': Chocolate Giant Mars Pledges $1 Billion To Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... about overall progress on the big issues, whether that' s climate change or solving poverty," Barry Parkin, Mars' .....
A Deadly Disease Threatens To Regain Ground Deep In The African Jungle
Release Date:
09/14/2017
More than 80 percent of the world’s sleeping sickness cases today occur in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The parasitic disease is fatal if untreated, yet difficult to diagnose early.
Some NYC K-12 Schools Cross $50,000-a-Year Mark
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... private schools increasingly are dominated by the city’ s most affluent families, even when about one-fifth of their ...
A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... new businesses — and a growing understanding of what’ s behind it. A total of 414,000 businesses were formed in ...
The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern
Release Date:
09/26/2017
The NYPD' s Growing DNA Database Raises Concern The NYPD is ... increasingly turning to DNA to help solve crimes. And it' s worked: The science has helped develop investigative leads ... article, co-...
Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Millennials are becoming even more engaged in philanthropic causes in 2017 than they were in late 2016, according to Phase 1 of the Millennial Impact Report. At the same time, employers continue to search for ways to engage millennials to...
12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... Built to Withstand Future Storms As sea level rise increases the impact severe storms like Superstorm Sandy have on New York, the city’ s architects are designing buildings that are more resilient than even...
General Motors Is Going All Electric
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... and Jaguar Land Rover have announced similar moves. GM’ s declaration, though, is particularly noteworthy because it’ s among the very largest automakers on the planet. . . ...
Albany Charities Find It Hard to Tap Influx of Wealth
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... earners have been growing as a share of this region’ s population, according to the Pew Research Center. Tracy Pitcher, executive director of the St. Paul’ s Center for homeless mothers and their children,...
Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project
Release Date:
10/03/2017
The Kessler Foundation, of East Hanover, NJ, has just awarded Reeves-Reed Arboretum a grant for $8,000 towards the completion of the first phase of this ambitious project.
City Council Members Still Navigating Outside Income Divestment Ahead of Deadline
Release Date:
10/05/2017
Legislation barring City Council members from making outside income will go into effect on January 1, forcing several sitting and incoming Council members to make tough decisions about their side jobs.
Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads
Release Date:
10/06/2017
Everyone knows the old adage, “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…”
Delaware Juvenile Justice Reforms Signed into Law
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... approved until an attorney has explained the defendant’ s rights... Delaware Juvenile Justice Reforms Signed into Law ...
New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"
Release Date:
11/20/2017
NYSHealth grantees and partners are working together with residents and local organizations in Brownsville to increase access to healthy and affordable foods and empower residents through urban farms and gardens, farmers markets, and other nutrition...