City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans
Release Date:
10/07/2016
... options for 1.5 million people. Tens of millions of Americans work for companies that don't provide traditional .....
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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers
Release Date:
10/07/2016
... philanthropists, Forbes calculated which of the wealthy Americans on its annual Top 50 Givers list gave the most over ...
Carnegie Corporation of New York Funds Primer to Guide Students on College Choices
Release Date:
10/17/2016
The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences received $2.2 million from Carnegie Corporation of New York for this initiative.
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.
Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn
Release Date:
01/04/2017
Neighborhood Strength is a resident-led investment program that brings community members together at the neighborhood-level to identify, and direct funding to, solutions that target significant local challenges.
MetLife Foundation Sponsors Ballet Hispánico Tour
Release Date:
02/21/2017
... the dancers: Doors 1pm, Show 2pm, Q&A 3pm. The program will feature excerpts from the crowd-pleasing repertory ...
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness
Release Date:
03/03/2017
... a problem that might seem tailor-made for philanthropy, it 's fighting blindness. Losing sight is a horrifying fate for anyone to contemplate, and it 's not surprising that blindness has motivated some...
Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101
Release Date:
03/20/2017
David Rockefeller, the banker and philanthropist with the fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded vast influence around the world even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on...
Carnegie Corporation of New York Promotes 'Changing Faces of Immigration' Video Series
Release Date:
03/24/2017
The face of immigration is changing rapidly. Asians outpaced Hispanic immigrants in 2009, becoming the largest and fastest-growing wave of newcomers to the United States.
Giving Like a Rockefeller, Even if You’re Not Super-Rich
Release Date:
03/31/2017
Few families, of course, are as wealthy as the Rockefellers. But their example offers lessons for families without famous last names, philanthropic resources and numerous plaques in their honor.
Russell Sage Foundation Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty"
Release Date:
06/01/2017
... are enduring a crisis of poverty. Nearly 17 million Americans live in poverty in the suburbs, but they remain ... nonprofit sector the attention—and funding—that it desperately needs. That’s the provocative...
Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School
Release Date:
06/01/2017
Investor George Soros hit back Thursday against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader’s attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros founded after the fall of communism.
Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary
Release Date:
06/06/2017
A rumpled 60-something legal scholar who has taught animal-rights law at Harvard and Stanford, Steven Wise founded of the Nonhuman Rights Project, which calls itself “the only civil rights organization in the United States working through litigation...
Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training
Release Date:
06/13/2017
... system. His plan to modernize America’s infrastructure will require the administration and Congress to work together if it is to be enacted later this year. Whatever the contours of ... a misleading snapshot...
Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students
Release Date:
06/28/2017
William T. Grant Foundation supported research at Stanford which found African-American and Latino students who completed self-affirming writing exercises in middle school took more challenging courses and were more likely to enroll in college,...
Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
Release Date:
08/30/2017
In the hours after European antitrust regulators levied a record $2.7 billion fine against Google in late June, an influential Washington think tank learned what can happen when a tech giant that shapes public policy debates with its enormous wealth...
A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia
Release Date:
09/06/2017
There is a boom in Muslim-led nonprofit work that counters ideas of Islam as foreign and dangerous. And all of them are connected by an invisible thread: Pillars Fund.
Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Once, an artist residency meant something very different: being embedded squarely within regular life, an experience meant both to inspire artists and to infuse what were seen as artless environments with creativity.
Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... in Decline American household income is rising, but it may not be time to pop the champagne yet. Especially if ...
Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... for Boys and Men of Color (an AFF grantee partner), Native Americans in Philanthropy and Fund the People. … Andrus ...