New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course
Release Date:
04/27/2017
... What may be just as important in his new role, however, will be his reputation for having worked with Republicans and ...
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New York Stem Cell Foundation HQ is a Linchpin for Biotech
Release Date:
05/05/2017
... the utilities needed to conduct biological experiments, will attract biotech startups. Since its launch in 2005, the ...
Atlantic Philanthropies Publishes “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic"
Release Date:
05/31/2017
... become The Atlantic Philanthropies, he said he was doing it out of a belief in Giving While Living – the idea that individuals of great means should use their money to help people during their lifetimes. In...
Macquarie Announces $100,000 Social Innovation Award Recipient
Release Date:
08/11/2017
... social inclusion within Australia. Cerebral Palsy Alliance will use the $100,000 Award to fund its 'Remarkable Accelerator .....
The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/11/2017
The Overbrook Foundation has worked during the past few years to improve an underperforming U.S. environmental movement.
Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries
Release Date:
08/18/2017
... Community Foundation (WCF) is funding the series, which will focus on the 200-year history of Sing Sing and its ... Museum recently received its charter from the state. It plans to use the...
Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... of 18 bills aimed at protecting tenants whose landlords use construction as a form of harassment Wednesday. The bills include a measure that will block developers who owe the Department of Buildings ... of...
Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... improve forestry and transform the productivity of water use . In an interview with IPS, Elwyn Grainger-Jones, ... such as droughts and floods, high heat and cold stress, will impact agriculture in Africa,...
Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... Meeting Scores of the nation’s major philanthropists will gather in New York next month to coincide with the ... meeting in Davos, which for the first time since 2002 will set up camp in Manhattan. . ...
Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... Donald Trump's immigration policies — specifically the use of courts to identify and deport undocumented immigrants. .....
Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case
Release Date:
09/11/2017
The Civilian Complaint Review Board recommended the NYPD discipline the cop who used a banned chokehold in the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island three years ago.
Peter G. Peterson Foundation CEO Comments On Federal Debt Passing $20 Trillion For First Time
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... to borrow again on the open markets. For months, it had been using off-book extraordinary measures to keep ... Trump signed a bill including the debt lift Friday, it was able to start unwinding those measures...
Diverse Charter Schools In New York City to Get Boost from Walton Money
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... start of about seven mixed-income charter schools, which will be able to use the money to pay for anything from building space to ...
Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... for streetcars and buses. On Wednesday, the City Council will vote on a zoning framework to put the same land to yet another use , a million-square-foot development with about 730 ...
‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... They walk neighborhood streets on a daily basis and use their connections to resolve disputes before they ...
Can Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved?
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved? A land use proposal to redevelop the 138,000-square-foot, ... and the city-selected developer behind the project to make it acceptable, especially to Cumbo,...
Four Communities Are to Receive Smart Growth Funds, Cuomo Announces
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... Cuomo Announces Four communities in Western New York will receive up to $2.5 million in state funding apiece to ...
For the Disabled, New York’s Sidewalks Are an Obstacle Course
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... rights advocate who lives in the Bronx. “I believe it ’s very unfair. These types of things should not be ...
SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... original proposal remains in tact, prospective teachers will now be required to sit for significantly more hours of ...
IRS Audit Guides Inform Nonprofits about Review Criteria
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... materials known as Audit Technique Guides (ATGs) it uses to guide its reviewers through looking at 501(c)(3) ...