Site Search

- resource provided by the Forum Network Knowledgebase.
Search Tip: Search with " " to find exact matches.

More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

Release Date:

09/21/2017

More Than Half of City' s 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog More ... addition of more seats and new buildings, many families feel the situation is getting worse as existing seats are...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Education

New App Helps Students Select NYC Public High Schools

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... to underachieving schools near home, in part because their families often lack counseling that can help them navigate a ...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Education

Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... Sandy victims have dropped out in droves from the city’ s Build It Back recovery program, new data shows. An analysis ... Superstorm Sandy. Three neighborhoods saw more than 1,000 families exit the program...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Community Development

Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... apartments, half of which would be rented to low-income families . . . Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an ...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Community Development

Former Microsoft CEO and Wife Pledge $60 Million to Fight Social Inequality

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... to Fight Social Inequality Steve and Connie Ballmer are giving $60 million over six years to a program created ... the former chief executive of Microsoft, and his wife are giving the money through the Ballmer...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Economic Security

Should We Be Worried That Foreclosure Sales Are Near Recession Levels?

Release Date:

10/10/2017

Should We Be Worried That Foreclosure Sales Are Near Recession Levels? Reports last week that the number ... suggest the opposite should be happening. The city' s unemployment rate has been trending down...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

The Annie E. Casey Foundation Issues Report on Undercount of Young Kids in 2020 Census

Release Date:

06/29/2018

... child advocates of troubling consequences for the nation’ s kids with the likely undercount of about 1 million children ... at child well-being in the United States. In this year’ s Data Book, the Foundation...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Census 2020

Children, Youth and Families

Related Organizations

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces New David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center

Release Date:

06/05/2019

Today, The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) announced plans for the creation of the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Arts

Related Organizations

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Ingrid Rasmussen Joins Unbound Philanthropy as Chief Operating Officer

Release Date:

06/05/2019

... Bronx House, and the New Community Corporation. Ingrid’ s family immigrated to the US from Italy, and she is passionate about Unbound’ s mission to invest in leaders and organizations in the US ...

Find More By

News type

Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Related Organizations

Unbound Philanthropy

Silicon Valley Community Foundation and Gilroy Foundation Set Up Gilroy Garlic Festival Victims Relief Fund

Release Date:

07/30/2019

... distributed by the Gilroy Foundation to victims and their families , and to local nonprofit organizations providing ...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Disaster Relief

Related Organizations

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Names Rafael Maldonado as Vice President and Chief Information Technology Officer

Release Date:

12/14/2021

... role, Maldonado will be a key member of the Foundation’ s leadership team, responsible for the strategic development ... information security, and information technology. “We are thrilled to have Rafael join...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Related Organizations

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

After-School All-Stars Receives $4 Million Grant From New York Life Foundation

Release Date:

03/08/2014

... New York Life Foundation to expand its services in six U. S . cities, reports Philanthropy News Digest. After-School ... to expand its services to middle school youth in six U. S . cities. The grant will enable...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Education

Related Organizations

New York Life Foundation

New York is building one of the nation’s largest computer databases of medical records

Release Date:

06/01/2014

New York is building one of the nation’ s largest computer databases of medical records New York is ... will allow patients and doctors alike to see complete health histories in one place and promises to save...

Find More By

Funding Area

Health

NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Release Date:

06/11/2014

... Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods New York City' s Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food ... according to researchers at Columbia University' s School of International...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

Release Date:

07/17/2014

Noyes Foundation' s Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow Kolu Zigbi, program ... Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has ... one of 10...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Food Systems

Related Organizations

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Water.org Receives $2.9M Grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust to Provide Safe Water and Sanitation in East Africa

Release Date:

10/22/2014

... and improved sanitation in Kenya. In addition, Water.org' s health and hygiene education programs will reach at least ... Water.org' s community-led total sanitation activities...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Health

International/Foreign Affairs

Related Organizations

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Century Foundation Releases New Report on Labor Market Recovery

Release Date:

11/06/2014

... a supposedly improving economy and our belief that things are still pretty terrible? In a new report released today, TCF’ s Mike Cassidy says that part of the problem may be that the ... unemployment rate is...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

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 ... schools in the city by linking services such as mental health counseling and food programs to more traditional .....

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Related Organizations

The Elmezzi Foundation

Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

Release Date:

03/13/2015

... grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to enable the U. S . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct ... which will be conducted in partnership with the World Health Organization, will be used to...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Health

International/Foreign Affairs

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research

Release Date:

06/02/2015

... exceptional leadership and innovative organizations that are catalyzing change in their respective industries. ... projects and game-changing discoveries to improve human health . We are...