Nigeria Youth Futures Fund Launches with Seed Funding from the Ford and MacArthur Foundations
Release Date:
09/13/2021
... momentum in the region inspired by the youth-led #EndSARS movement . Young people under the age of 30 comprise more than ...
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Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s
Release Date:
05/17/2014
Cathy Schoe of Commonwealth Fund quoted in New York Times article on doctor's salaries.
Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making
Release Date:
05/22/2014
... projects around the city by selling the development rights , according to the study expected to be released today ...
NYC Schools Chief Vows to Preserve Number of Gifted Programs and Their Exams
Release Date:
06/17/2014
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña plans to preserve the hallmarks of New York City’s gifted programs, the immensely popular classes and schools that draw high achievers but have been criticized as shutting out low-income children.
The Roots of Today's Giving Pledge
Release Date:
07/08/2014
The Giving Pledge may be vogue today for many wealthy Americans, but as Forbes notes, the idea was first advanced 125 years ago when Andrew Carnegie, whose money endowed Carnegie Corporation of New York, wrote an essay encouraging other...
Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change"
Release Date:
07/22/2014
... the National Employment Law Project, a leading workers’ rights advocacy organization.... Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees ...
J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants
Release Date:
01/29/2015
... innovation in the fields of cultural heritage, human rights , the built environment, and the natural environment. ...
Ford Foundation to Fund City Study of Diversity in Cultural Institutions
Release Date:
03/04/2015
The study will be implemented by the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations
Release Date:
03/12/2015
Nonprofit Finance Fund has received a $485,000 planning grant for the first year of the project, focused on the development of a multi-phased, comprehensive initiative to help small-to-midsize arts organizations navigate, adapt and thrive amid ever-...
Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen
Release Date:
04/15/2015
... organization Mwatana Organization for Human Rights have spent two years visiting the sites where some of ...
Nonprofit Insurers Lose on Medicare Under New Obamacare Rules
Release Date:
08/20/2015
The most pronounced underwriting losses stem from the Medicare Advantage line of business, which allows private health plans to administer the government insurance program for Americans over the age of 65.
Carnegie Corporation of New York Launches Redesigned Carnegie.Org
Release Date:
09/22/2015
... knowledge about important issues of our times. Voting rights is one such issue, long a focus of the Corporation’s ...
Opinion: Health Reform Lives!
Release Date:
11/23/2015
To the right’s dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and spurious legal challenges failed to protect the nation from the scourge of guaranteed health coverage. Still, Obamacare’s opponents insisted that it would implode in a “death spiral...
Arcus Foundation Launches Fourth New York Pride Photo Book
Release Date:
06/29/2016
... the Stonewall riots for the world’s first march for gay rights . From its modest, though ambitious, beginnings, the ...
Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health Reform
Release Date:
02/16/2017
In the fall of 1964, Wilbur Cohen, then assistant secretary of legislation at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), was summoned to the White House along with his peers from...
Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List
Release Date:
03/29/2017
... trail, they came out in record numbers to rally for the rights of women and others who felt threatened by the new ...
Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island
Release Date:
05/15/2017
The NYC jail is a microcosm of everything wrong with America’s criminal-justice system—but may also offer a model for how it can be righted.
Ford Foundation Appoints Ai-jen Poo to Board of Trustees
Release Date:
06/19/2017
... – domestic workers, caregivers and the elderly – whose rights are often challenged and under-protected in this ... Workers United (DWU), an organization promoting the rights and dignity of all domestic workers...
The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Grants to Organizations Supporting and Defending LGBTQ Community
Release Date:
06/23/2017
The Foundation will support orgnaizations providing legal, advocacy, and social services to the LGBTQ community as they respond to an environment of increased violence, hostility and prejudice.
Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time
Release Date:
07/13/2017
A new report from the Urban Institute tells much of the reason why the nation’s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in recent years: Prisoners sentenced to long terms under laws passed in previous decades still are locked up, and...