Focus on What Works in NYC Schools
Release Date:
01/06/2014
... Carmen Fariña, New Yorkers are looking for what really matters : results. Fortunately, so is she. Carmen Fariña has ...
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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Transgender Health Discrimination Study
Release Date:
07/29/2015
Discrimination experienced by transgender and gender-nonconforming people in public settings like bathrooms and health care facilities results in adverse health outcomes.
New York Community Trust Brings Reading Instruction Program to the Bronx
Release Date:
04/29/2016
... Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education, Teaching Matters brought its program to improve reading instruction in ...
Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard
Release Date:
09/01/2016
In a perfect world, education experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers.
Bloomberg Writes Op-Ed: Climate Progress, With or Without Trump
Release Date:
03/31/2017
Philanthropist and former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg writes that President Trump’s unfortunate and misguided rollback of environmental protections has led to a depressing and widespread belief that the United States can no longer meet its...
Fair Futures: A Cross-Sector Partnership Transforming How New York City Supports Young People Impacted by Foster Care
Release Date:
06/28/2023
... to guide service delivery and track outcomes, and other resources . Later that year, the funders hosted an event at ...
Long Game: Inside the Carnegie Corporation’s Quest to Improve Science Education
Release Date:
02/20/2019
... Learning portfolio. “We know that the quality of teacher matters . We know that having a good principal, instructional leader in the school to support the teacher matters ,” said Short. “But I think there’s...
The Will and The Way: Philanthropy's Grantmaking Defaults Must Change
Release Date:
02/05/2020
... These are important issues, but a few related matters merit discussion as well: To scale, or not to scale? ...
The Carnegie Compact Revisited: Re-envisioning New York City’s Branch Libraries
Release Date:
11/26/2014
... their favorite libraries and to tell us why their library matters to their communities. In fewer than six weeks, we ...
Time To Revisit Reporting
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... benefit from capacity support, field connections, or other resources that the funder could offer. Grantmaker learning to ... is reading this, it’s just for the files. What really matters is what I put in my...
Internal Communications for Philanthropy: Maintaining Community in a Time of Isolation
Release Date:
03/31/2020
... of us. It’s been heartening to watch foundations marshal resources to find ways to ease burdens on grantees and step ... the need in those areas is changing by the minute? What matters and what feels like Nero...
Laureus USA Releases New Research Study: Youth Sports Promote Social & Emotional Learning, Especially Among Men of Color
Release Date:
02/03/2021
Research demonstrates sports-based youth development programs foster significantly more social and emotional learning than non-sport after school programs
Take It From the Nonprofits: Even in a Crisis, Funders Are Falling Short on Equity
Release Date:
07/29/2021
... of swiftly and equitably delivering responsive, flexible resources to nonprofits facing urgent demands. And so, at a ... fielded a virtual conference, and expedited the rollout of resources to help Drive...
Open Society Foundations Announce 2022 Soros Equality Fellows
Release Date:
11/09/2022
... Fellows will be working on: multimedia educational resources on race and equity in intellectual property law, a ... property law, by developing multimedia educational resources designed to reach a range of...
Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City
Release Date:
11/08/2013
... photographs, maps and a website with graphics, tools and resources . Of particular interest to the philanthropic ... that individuals have appropriate technical assistance and resources , all of which funders...
Citi Foundation Announces Recipients of $50 Million Community Finance Innovation Fund
Release Date:
09/12/2022
... the National Bankers Community Alliance will have the resources and encouragement to invest in the crucial ... have been challenged by the pandemic and need more resources and capacity to have greater impact...
Peterson Foundation promotes benchmarks for assessing the candidates on budget issues
Release Date:
05/27/2015
Federal budgetary challenge comes down to health care and Social Security, according to Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Reframes its Global Democratic Practice Grantmaking Portfolio
Release Date:
04/25/2017
... of grantmaking work in our Democratic Practice—Global Governance portfolio, which supports civil society engagement on issues of global governance in the areas of climate change, development ... securing...
Bloomberg Charity Scrutinized By India For Anti-Tobacco Funding, Lobbying
Release Date:
08/29/2017
India has been investigating how Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, funds local non-profit groups for anti-tobacco lobbying, government documents show, making it the latest foreign non-government organization to come...
Investing for Impact: Indirect Costs Are Essential for Success
Publication date:
10/2013
This report addresses how governments that hire charitable nonprofits to deliver services and then reimburse them for less than reasonable indirect costs undermine the ability of nonprofits to deliver high-quality services.