HSC Calls for Comments on Fair Labor Standards Act Effects on Nonprofits
Release Date:
11/28/2016
... employee status, which will take effect on December 1, the State is accepting comments on its own proposed rule, which ...
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Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President
Release Date:
03/08/2017
Erica Dunbar, who grew up in Philadelphia, is one of the more than 700 Mellon Mays PhDs who are not only helping to diversify university faculty in the United States, but who are also contributing groundbreaking scholarship and rising to the highest...
Aetna Joins Corporate Effort to Save Hartford Financial and Psychological Slump
Release Date:
03/15/2017
... and Psychological Slump Connecticut may be the wealthiest state in the nation, but you wouldn't know that by visiting .....
Vivian Tseng Promoted to Senior Vice President, Program of The William T. Grant Foundation
Release Date:
03/29/2017
... in Psychology and Asian American studies at California State University-Northridge. Her research has examined ...
With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity
Release Date:
04/25/2017
In one of the first examinations of early gender development among transgender preschoolers, a new study has found that these children were just as likely as nontransgender children to have preferences associated with their gender, and to have as...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data
Release Date:
04/26/2017
... property information--tax records, landmark status, out-of- state ownership--to compile a "blight index," a master .....
Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund
Release Date:
06/12/2017
Agnes Gund is partnering with the Ford Foundation, in the creation of a new fund, titled the Art for Justice Fund, and has sold a very valuable painting to kickoff the fundraising. She has asked other collectors to do the same, in the hopes of...
NY Community Trust, Mellon, Ford Among Supports of New York Live Arts 2017-2018 Season
Release Date:
07/03/2017
New York Live Arts, under the artistic leadership of MacArthur Genius Award and National Medal of Arts awardee Artistic Director Bill T. Jones and Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong, announced the organization's 2017-2018 season.
Markle Foundation-Backed Online Tools Seek to Help Close the Employment Skills Gap
Release Date:
07/10/2017
In 2016, the Markle Foundation partnered with LinkedIn and Microsoft to create Skillful, a platform dedicated to filling “middle-skills” jobs in sectors like healthcare, the trades, logistics and other STEM-focused areas.
Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Seeks Proposals for Investigator Awards
Release Date:
07/10/2017
... colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local government; and eligible agencies of the ...
Rockefeller Supports Food Tank’s Sold-Out NYC Summit on Food Waste
Release Date:
07/25/2017
... Ruth Reichl, PBS/Food Writer; Brian Roe, The Ohio State University; Christine Datz-Romero, Lower East Side ...
Seeking Just & Sustainable Communities: Surdna Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $14 Million
Release Date:
07/26/2017
The New York City-based Surdna Foundation awarded 72 grants totaling more than $14 million to organizations working to foster just and sustainable communities in the United States.
Carnegie Corp.’s Academic Leadership Award Recognizes Seven University Presidents
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... Boston, Massachusetts Mark P. Becker : President, Georgia State University; Atlanta, Georgia John J. DeGioia : ...
Ex-Googlers Stir Up Controversy With Bodega Pantry Concept
Release Date:
09/18/2017
Two Google veterans have developed a convenience concept called Bodega that they’ve been testing in 30 San Francisco-area locations and now want to roll out to other markets, according to Fast Company. Bodega is a five-foot-wide pantry box filled...
Macquarie Group and Its Employees Donate $100,000 To Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... coastal and inland cities in Texas, which is now a federal state of disaster. "Hurricane Harvey was a devastating .....
The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old
Release Date:
09/20/2017
Since 2009, the Case Foundation, in partnership with Achieve, has engaged over 100,000 millennials through surveys, focus groups, and one-on-one interviews with the goal “to accurately capture and comprehend” how young adults engage with...
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2017
Census 2020 - Time to Act - A Webinar Hosted by United Philanthropy Forum
Monday, October 30, 2017 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
... and your organization to take policy action on the federal/ state /local levels, and coordinate with your ...
“El Negro Bembón”: Puerto Rico’s Invisibility Crisis Before and After Hurricane Maria
Release Date:
11/01/2017
... Rico had a poverty rate that was almost double the poorest state in the United States. The day before the storm, median ... which is half of the lowest median income in the poorest state on the mainland. This...
Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times
Release Date:
11/02/2017
... families, and then studied English and theater at Ohio State University. (She told her parents she was majoring in ...
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Nov
2017
New York Foster Youth Funders Group – Fall Meeting
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
... refugees. A focus will be on recommendations for city and state policy, practice, and process and how our grantee ...