With Support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Opera Philadelphia Appoints Rene Orth as Composer-in-Residence
Release Date:
06/17/2016
... Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the three- year program fosters tomorrow’s American operatic ...
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As 12 Early Community Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’s Long-term Commitment
Release Date:
06/17/2016
In New York City, an unexpected fight has flared up between proponents of social service-filled “community schools” and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio, one of the nation’s most outspoken champions of those schools.
Supported by Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Riveting Short Film Takes You Under the Sea in 360 Degrees
Release Date:
06/21/2016
... Ronald Mambrasar and his 8- year -old son Valen as they explore the protected Bird's Head .....
Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... chance as white kids of getting a good education. The next year , in another Gallup survey, almost half of whites said ...
Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
“This is a preference that preferences the already advantaged,” observed Richard Kahlenberg, a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and a prolific writer on higher education issues.
Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City
Release Date:
08/19/2016
About 127,000 New York City public school students — or one in eight — have been homeless at some point in the last five school years, more than the total population of Boston and Seattle’s school systems combined.
Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families
Release Date:
08/22/2016
Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families It has been said that history rhymes rather than repeats itself. For New Yorkers who have seen record levels of homelessness on the streets, in...
Marist College, Rockefeller Archive Center Partner on Open-Source Technologies for Digital Archival Processes
Release Date:
08/24/2016
... contribution. The two main components of this two- year digital records infrastructure project are a repository ...
Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... me to join the team at the Surdna Foundation more than a year ago, I’ve often shared that I saw a philanthropic ...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... going back to the previous decade, like the seven- year -old, still-healthy alliance between the nonprofit ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative
Release Date:
08/26/2016
Funded by a $32 million gift from Michael R. Bloomberg, Harvard University and Bloomberg Philanthropies have announced the launch of a joint initiative aimed at advancing leadership, management, and innovation in cities across America and around the...
Suzette Hunte Joins United Way of New York City as Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
Release Date:
09/08/2016
Hunte will serve as a strategic thought partner to the President and play a critical role in the design, coordination and implementation of the President's initiatives, both internally and externally, at UWNYC.
Ford and MacArthur-Backed Survey Finds That Young Voters From Newer Immigrant Families Lean More Liberal
Release Date:
09/09/2016
... viewpoint that the U.S. cares," said Juan Tavares, a 24- year -old from California whose parents were born in Mexico. .....
Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations
Release Date:
09/09/2016
Results challenge standard model of how animals and humans cool off.
Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum
Release Date:
09/28/2016
... position is supported by a $500,000 five-and-a-half year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance ...
Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism
Release Date:
11/18/2016
Mark Lilla, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, writes in the New York Times to advocate for a "post-identity liberalism."
Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration
Release Date:
12/13/2016
An academic report released on Monday savors key ingredients of “what may be the most diverse school district in New Jersey.”
Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead
Release Date:
12/15/2016
For manifold reasons of background and ideology (and maybe some score-settling for the scuttling of his nomination 30 years ago as a federal judge), Jeff Sessions as attorney general is a nightmare come to life for people who care about the...
An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools
Release Date:
12/22/2016
... prestigious public and private colleges by 50,000 by the year 2025... An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost ...
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.