National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project
Release Date:
10/30/2015
... Improve credit scores and expand access to credit; and Increase the availability of financial coaching and literacy ...
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NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High
Release Date:
11/02/2015
Climate change, inequality and a broken criminal justice system are the issues du jour, and are also, increasingly, the focus of some of the nation’s largest philanthropies.
Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want
Release Date:
12/01/2015
Terry Fulmer of the John A. Hartford Foundation writes about the desires of elders to avoid dependence on others and institutionalization.
Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
Release Date:
01/07/2016
The widespread use of suspension and expulsion in schools reflects a national belief in "zero tolerance" to set a tone of academic focus and seriousness and to maintain order and safety. Yet, is this effective discipline?
Citi Director and NYC Commissioner Jointly Advocate for Helping Immigrants Become Citizens
Release Date:
01/14/2016
... Cities" shows that naturalization may lead to an average increase in individual earnings of 8.9%, or $3,200, in the .....
Guardian: Are Gates and Rockefeller Using Their Influence to Set Agenda in Poor States?
Release Date:
01/19/2016
Ultra-rich philanthropists and their foundations have increasing influence on decision-making and are setting the global health and agriculture agenda in developing countries, according to a major study.
Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities
Release Date:
02/04/2016
... the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of efforts to increase the number of Latino professors in the humanities at ...
Peterson Foundation Cited in 'Public Worry Over Budget Easing'
Release Date:
02/10/2016
As President Obama's final budget plan is reviewed, there are signs the public is increasingly seeing the government's long-running budget deficit with less and less concern.
Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)
Release Date:
02/11/2016
... The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, shows an increase in the number of schools that have integrated ...
Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration
Release Date:
02/23/2016
Halley Potter, a Century Foundation fellow, and Kimberly Quick, a policy associate, write about school integration issues throughout the nation in this op-ed for The New York Times.
Goldman Sachs Expands Philanthropic Fund to Younger Workers
Release Date:
03/04/2016
Wall Street has recently seen its share of young analysts leave their six-figure salary jobs to join the scrappier worlds of start-ups, nonprofits and even food trucks. A new program for young analysts to compete for donations to a charity of their...
JPB Foundation Supports Best Practices, Models for Green Infrastructure in Underserved Communities
Release Date:
03/10/2016
... Great Urban Parks Campaign, a program aiming ultimately to increase and improve the use of green infrastructure in local ...
IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
03/11/2016
... of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the diversity of future university faculty in ...
Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050
Release Date:
05/19/2016
... diabetic retinopathy (DR) and cataracts, will dramatically increase impacting both individuals and society. The National ...
Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... recently dropped legacy preferences, actually witnessed an increase in donations. And many esteemed private ...
Ms. Foundation for Women Will Join SheKnows Media for the Sept. 26 Panel on Next-Generation #Femvertising
Release Date:
09/21/2016
The survey, fielded online in September 2016, examines attitudes toward the pro-female advertising movement in which brands are increasingly building gender-equality messages and images into ads that target women.
Video: Rockefeller Features Jada Pinkett Smith in Latest Insight Dialogues
Release Date:
10/03/2016
On September 19th, Pinkett Smith joined Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin for the third edition of Insight Dialogues, touching on the many roles she balances in Hollywood, her vocal advocacy for girls and women and youth empowerment and...
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.
Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps
Release Date:
10/19/2016
School districts and charter schools across the country increasingly are pursuing socioeconomic integration, with data on those efforts suggesting positive outcomes for both low- and middle-income students, a report from the Century Foundation finds.
With Support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics
Release Date:
10/21/2016
In a study of white Americans’ attitudes and candidate preferences, we found that Trump’s success reflects the rise of “white identity politics” – an attempt to protect the collective interests of white voters via the ballot box. Whereas racial...