American Express Awards $2.5 Million to Five Innovative Principal Leadership Programs
Release Date:
10/05/2015
... five winners of the Principals Path to Leadership grant, a giving program created to expand effective principal ...
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Carnegie Corp. President: America’s Wealth & its Deep Decency - A Thanksgiving Reflection on Philanthropy
Release Date:
11/30/2015
... It instructed me to “remind everyone that charitable giving is something anyone can do — and everyone should ...
United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers
Release Date:
02/16/2016
... Yet, they are the ones asking questions about treatments, giving injections and managing medications — a stressful ...
Howard Gilman, Laurie M. Tisch, Doris Duke and Mellon Fund Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ Latest Project
Release Date:
10/18/2016
... the power of young people to be instruments of change, giving voice to those who have been silenced or marginalized ...
ESSA Explained: Inside the New Federal K-12 Law
Release Date:
01/13/2017
The new Every Student Succeeds Act rolls back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low-performing schools. And it gives big new leeway to states in calling the shots.
Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer
Release Date:
02/23/2017
... same time—and while less profitable—each was already giving back as a member of Pledge 1% , an initiative for ...
Cuomo, Schneiderman Say They'll Sue to Protect "Dreamers"
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released a joint statement saying they will sue to protect those who are currently under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, policy if President Donald Trump succeeds in...
EPA Now Requires Political Aide’s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications
Release Date:
09/05/2017
The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the unusual step of putting a political operative in charge of vetting the hundreds of millions of dollars in grants the EPA distributes annually, assigning final funding decisions to a former Trump...
The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear
Release Date:
09/07/2017
When news leaked on Monday that President Trump had decided to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the 2012 policy that granted administrative relief to some 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States...
Democrats Look To Trump On DREAM Act After He Puts Expiration Date On DACA Program
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... phasing out the Obama-era immigration policy while first giving Congress six months to codify it. . . Democrats Look ...
Commonwealth Fund: Indecision on ACA Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Creates Confusion for States
Release Date:
09/11/2017
To date, the Trump administration has offered states only uncertainty about what to expect in 2018, which has made it difficult to set premium rates, writes the Commonwealth Fund.
Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Rising Rate of Uninsured People
Release Date:
05/02/2018
The Commonwealth Fund on Tuesday released a survey of working-age Americans that found that 15.5 percent were estimated to lack health insurance coverage as of February and March 2018. That’s up from 12.7 percent of that group in 2016.
Grow the Craft: "What's the right relationship between philanthropy and government?"
Publication date:
05/2010
In a recent survey, GrantGraft shared reflections from eight foundation leaders on this question (including Karen Davis of The Commonwealth Fund; M. Christine DeVita of the Wallace Foundation; Vartan Gregorian of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Gara LaMarche of The Atlantic Philanthropies; Gail Nayowith of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund; and Luis Ubiñas of the Ford Foundation) and then asked their users to weigh in. This survey report shares the results.
In New Brand of Philanthropy, Nonprofits Invest in For-Profits
Release Date:
12/11/2012
... it was considered revolutionary. Historically, major foundations had used mainly stocks, bonds, real estate and ...
New Breed of CEOs Is Poised to Reshape Philanthropy in 2014
Release Date:
01/13/2014
... article. A dozen of the nation’s 30 wealthiest foundations —including Gates, Ford, and Kellogg—are making ...
Stephanie Bencivenga Joins Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Release Date:
01/01/2013
... for nonprofits and governmental agencies, and promoted local and national releases of environmental documentaries. ...
Unions, Reform Groups Gird for California-Inspired Lawsuit
Release Date:
06/17/2014
... New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long-awaited opportunity to ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces First Cities Selected to Join What Works Cities Initiative
Release Date:
08/05/2015
... of data and evidence in order to improve services, inform local decision making and engage citizens.... Bloomberg ...
UJA-Federation of New York's Supplies for Success Program Fills Backpacks in Time for Back-to-School
Release Date:
09/07/2016
... fill backpacks with donated school supplies destined for local children in need of a hand to start the school year on ...
Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island
Release Date:
05/15/2017
The NYC jail is a microcosm of everything wrong with America’s criminal-justice system—but may also offer a model for how it can be righted.