An Old Idea is New Again: Tackling Large Complex Problems by Investing in Communities
Release Date:
04/10/2018
... DEC’s founding members decided that instead of funding individual demonstration projects, they would pool ...
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It’s Time Responsible Business Became Business as Usual
Release Date:
03/22/2016
... their employers, the shareholders, and as such, allocating resources to CSR amounts to spending shareholder money ... have shifted as a result. The Watergate scandal shocked America to its core, shattering...
JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative
Release Date:
01/11/2017
... & Co. today announced $20 million in grants to 10 U.S. states to dramatically increase the number of students who ...
SUNY Tuition to Rise $200 for Students not Eligible for Excelsior
Release Date:
06/23/2017
If you're not getting free SUNY tuition this fall, you will be paying more.
Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere
Release Date:
09/11/2017
Unemployment rates are down for New York state overall, but wide swaths of upstate had fewer jobs in 2016 than in 2011, according to a new report.
Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools
Release Date:
09/12/2017
The New York State Board of Regents on Monday approved a plan laying out the state’s goals for its education system, as required by the sweeping federal education law signed by President Barack Obama in 2015 known as the Every Student Succeeds Act.
New York’s Most Controversial Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a Little Easier To Pass
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Just years after New York began requiring prospective teachers to pass a tough new exam, the state’s top education policy makers are lowering the score needed to enter the classroom.
The Case for Using a Social Justice Lens in Grantmaking
Release Date:
09/19/2012
Michael Seltzer, Trustee at EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation and past President of Philanthropy New York, ...
Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Grantmaking
What is the business of your organization? Explore the core cycle of how foundations make grants, as well as how foundations give, ways to manage relationships with grantees, and where implicit bias plays a role in grantmaking.
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Getting Beyond Philanthropic Colonialism
Release Date:
11/05/2013
... wife Jennifer are learning about philanthropy. Their NoVo Foundation is large and has very ambitious goals for ... Colonialism”: when “a donor [and, I would add, many a foundation ] had the urge to ‘save the...
Philanthropy Can Play a Role In Managing Student Debt Crisis
Release Date:
06/27/2016
... Debt Crisis By Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, CEO, Edwin Gould Foundation Remember the days when the measure of a college ... now advises organizations accepted into the Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator, I know...
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School Integration in NYC (Part 2): Strategies for Change
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 -
10:00am to 12:30pm
... Fred Frelow (Moderator), Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation Facilitators and Representatives from: Judith Bigelow , Director, Fordham Street Foundation Sarah Camiscoli , Founder and Co-Director, ... ,...
We Need More Steel Pans in Policy
Release Date:
05/30/2024
... and attacks on DEI becoming so prevalent in southern states , the average young academic of color may be slowly ...
Paul Connolly Joins Bessemer Trust
Release Date:
09/03/2013
... Their Collaborators,” and has published articles in The Foundation Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, ...
Bold Stories For Big Challenges
Release Date:
12/17/2013
... the Narrative: Using Storytelling to Expand Your Foundation ’s Impact.” The event was based on a ... work towards, said Maurine Knighton of the Nathan Cummings Foundation , and thus changes the zeitgeist on the...
More than Test Scores: What Young People Need to Succeed
Release Date:
03/23/2015
... Senior Research and Evaluation Officer, The Wallace Foundation Since emerging as a national funder in the 1990s, The Wallace Foundation has supported efforts to expand access to ... across the country. The...
Seeing Is Believing…and Understanding
Release Date:
01/25/2018
... Desiree M. Vazquez Barlatt, Program Officer, The Teagle Foundation During my time as a program officer at the Teagle Foundation , I’ve visited numerous colleges and ... me on my first trip to a prison. The...
Why We Support Media
Release Date:
07/05/2018
... By Mark Bieler, Chairman of the Board of the Edwin Gould Foundation For the last two decades or so, the Edwin Gould Foundation has concentrated its grant-making on improving ... will that would in turn...
Four Ways to Incorporate a Gender Lens in Your Measurement and Evaluation Efforts
Release Date:
02/20/2018
... a small nonprofit with limited human and financial resources , or a business starting to think about measuring ... evaluation, don’t forget to rely on the wealth of resources already created by practitioners...
Introducing Our Muslim Neighbors, One Story at a Time
Release Date:
08/18/2016
... Islamophobia in the city. So far, the Trust, a community foundation , is funding eight nonprofits with grants totaling more than half ... is supporting Muslim, Arab, and South Asian writers by funding...