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Long Game: Inside the Carnegie Corporation’s Quest to Improve Science Education
Release Date:
02/20/2019
... 10-year effort to improve science education in the United States . OpenSciEd , the new nonprofit, and the decade-long ... journey that led to its founding lend insight into how one of the oldest foundations in...
NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project
Release Date:
06/23/2014
... best responded to the question posed by the challenge: " How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and .....
Mellon's New Leader Reshaping Foundation's Public Face
Release Date:
06/29/2014
... March 2013, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is reviewing how it presents itself to the world and positions itself in ... is diversity. On that topic, Lewis says, "Maybe what we can do better than any...
The Source Codes of Foundation Culture
Publication date:
10/2015
... underlying assumptions of an organization. While culture can be understood in various ways and is hard to pin down, it has a persistent influence on how an organization behaves. Over the course of our ...
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA
Release Date:
10/26/2015
... new focus on inequality? Have questions about how we’re changing our approach to grant making to tackle ... Q&A hosted by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Anyone can ask questions in advance by posting them...
Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists
Release Date:
04/08/2016
... of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, were learning how to handle not just the unexpected payouts but also the complicated emotions that money can inspire: ignorance, confusion, shame, panic, the ...
Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Publishes New Volume: 'Higher Education Effectiveness'
Release Date:
04/08/2016
... technocrats or by those who believe higher education can be reduced to measurable outcomes that show up on the ... accept the idea that "effectiveness" -- defined as how well an organization is...
Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation
Release Date:
05/05/2016
... close look, and published a report called Ours to Share: How Worker Ownership Can Change the American Economy... Workers of the World, ...
Inaugural All Female Festival Launches In New York
Release Date:
05/09/2016
... The Other Festival showcases the women who are redefining how to do business, setting their own rules, putting new ... boundaries. Inventors, storytellers, founders, artists who can 't be boxed in. The...
Three Ways Ford Foundation's Shift To Inequality Will Affect Nonprofits Everywhere
Release Date:
05/24/2016
... to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in assets. You can imagine the hype it created when Ford Foundation ... to inequality means for the nonprofit world as well as how it will affect their own...
Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City
Release Date:
06/10/2016
... on inequality. And part of that effort includes examining how art and artists can address the problem, including issues of affordability ...
Commonwealth Fund Reports Detail Impacts of Clinton and Trump Health Reform Proposals
Release Date:
09/23/2016
... the RAND Corporation to crunch the numbers and find out how some of the candidates’ proposals would affect health care in the U.S. You can now learn all about the findings in two new Commonwealth ...
Bloomberg Urges World Leaders Not to Follow President Donald Trump’s Lead On Climate Change
Release Date:
04/24/2017
... last week’s release of his new book, “Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet,” co-authored by former Sierra Club ...
MetLife Foundation Noted Among Funders of Arts and Justice Initiative
Release Date:
07/19/2017
... Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund as Exhibit A in how legacy institutions can appeal to donors increasingly drawn to programs that ...
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... up offering an unusual promise: Even humanities graduates can learn how to code in a few months and join the high-paying digital ...
Adding Pantries and Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... joined forces three years ago to get a clearer picture of how well the system was working. What they learned about the ...
A Baseline for Success: Creating Sustainable PPPs
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... analyzing, and reporting these metrics and outcomes can help prioritize projects as well as provide continuous ... opportunities. It’s also important to consider how the political and partnership landscape may...
The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... of DNA profiles without any laws and little oversight over how they can use it. As the science advances and the size of the ...
New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... next year, giving investors a benchmark for assessing how companies and governments are making food systems more ... durum wheat or the frost-resistant Andean grain canahua can make food supply chains more...