New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond
Release Date:
07/07/2016
The grant will help communities be better prepared against rising seas, flooding, and other natural disasters.
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CEO Writes Op-Ed on Why JPMorgan Chase & Co. Is Giving Employees a Raise
Release Date:
07/12/2016
Over the next three years, we will raise the minimum pay for 18,000 employees to between $12 and $16.50 an hour.
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2016
New York Grantmakers in the Arts - Fall Meeting
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Arts and Culture funders, come together to discuss what we see as the pressing issues in the field so as to inform our subsequent discussions for the next 12 months.
A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field
Release Date:
08/24/2016
Morehouse College in Atlanta recently secured $2.5 million from Jim and Marilyn Simons towards educating math and science students.
Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children
Release Date:
09/07/2016
New research suggests that school districts can stave off the summer slide by offering free, voluntary programs that mix reading and math instruction with sailing, arts and crafts, and other summer staples.
Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings
Release Date:
09/29/2016
The aim is to help "change the landscape" of American racial discourse by openly acknowledging a painful past, much as Germany has Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state-sanctioned segregation - apartheid.
Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
Release Date:
09/30/2016
Voluntary summer-learning programs can help narrow academic achievement gaps between children from low-income families and those from high-income families, a report from the Wallace Foundation and the RAND Corporation finds.
Governor Cuomo Announces Nearly $21.6 Million for Eight Supportive Housing Projects
Release Date:
10/21/2016
Funding to Support Construction of Housing for Homeless New Yorkers Including Veterans and their Families.
NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member
Release Date:
10/31/2016
It seemed discordant to some critics when, this month, Ford's Darren Walker joined the board of PepsiCo, which makes the bulk of its money by selling sugary drinks and fatty snacks.
PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program
Release Date:
11/17/2016
The PIMCO Foundation has awarded the New York City Mission Society, a two-century-old nonprofit based in Harlem, 25,000 dollars to support its college-readiness program, Learning to Work.
New York Life Donates $500K Challenge Grant Toward Creation of Central Park's First Statues of Real Women
Release Date:
11/28/2016
... and allegorical figures). Elam said, "The real women who helped build this city, state and nation were nowhere to be .....
City Outside Monrovia Admitted to 100 Resilient Cities Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation
Release Date:
12/01/2016
The City of Paynesville, outside Monrovia, has been admitted to the group of 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation and dedicated to helping member cities around the world become more resilient to physical, social, and...
Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change
Release Date:
12/08/2016
For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, investment in renewable energy worldwide surpassed that of fossil fuels last year. That economic transformation leaves John Morton feeling optimistic about the worldwide response to climate change.
Request for Letters of Inquiry – Liberty Fund at The New York Community Trust
Release Date:
01/03/2017
The Trust and the New York Foundation created this special funding opportunity to help City nonprofits address immediate issues affecting vulnerable New Yorkers in this moment of change.
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs
Release Date:
01/06/2017
Congress has another reason not to roll back Obamacare too quickly: New research suggests that repealing two major provisions of Obamacare without replacing them right away could cost the nation 3 million jobs and trigger negative economic impacts...
Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness
Release Date:
01/10/2017
The project will, among other things, help establish a state-of-the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees
Release Date:
01/23/2017
A group of people walking through the fields caught Vasilis Tsartsanis’s eye as he passed the railroad that connects Greece to the rest of the Balkans. It was a warm September day in 2014, outside the small, usually quiet town of Idomeni. He stopped...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Purpose-Driven Investing Highlighted by Forbes
Release Date:
01/27/2017
This socially conscious generation is saying they want to support companies that strive for prosperity, which means not just a wealthy few but rather the well-being of many.
Catholic Charities Announces $800,000 Grant from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
Release Date:
01/31/2017
Catholic Charities Announces $800,000 Grant from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.
Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies
Release Date:
02/15/2017
A new study finds that nearly one in four people who seek emergency care for eye problems have mild conditions, and recommends ways to help those patients get the right level of care.