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Ford Foundation Appoints Maria Torres-Springer As Next Vice President for US Programs
Release Date:
02/01/2019
The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Maria Torres-Springer as its next vice president for US programs. She will join the foundation in May, succeeding Xavier de Souza Briggs, who has served as vice president for five years and...
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2021
Bottom-up Climate Policy: How One State Coalition is Influencing Federal Climate Policy
Monday, February 22, 2021 -
7:30pm to 8:30pm
... Special Guest Senator Chuck Schumer , Majority Leader, US Senate Panelists Shalanda Baker , Deputy Secretary for Energy ...
Learning in Place
Release Date:
07/14/2011
... public arena, with only a vague idea of what that might look like. It’s easy to pontificate about a hypothetical ... on a well-thought-out timeframe. The legislative session, budget negotiations, staffing...
NYSHealth Releases Survey Results on NYC Voters' Opinions on Universal Free School Lunch
Release Date:
04/19/2017
... and prioritized universal free school lunch for the 2018 budget , despite its exclusion from Mayor de Blasio's Preliminary Budget . As legislators debate the City's budget in the...
Teagle Foundation Releases Report on Their Initiative to Encourage Liberal Arts Colleges to Create Online Courses
Release Date:
01/30/2018
... to develop online or hybrid online courses and educational resources . While many faculty members who took part said they ... trying to expand their capacity without blowing their budget . But in the report,...
Findings from Century Foundation Report Lead Higher Education Advocacy Charge in California
Release Date:
06/01/2018
Among the recommendations of an April report from the progressive think-tank The Century Foundation was a call to shift the focus of the Cal Grant program from covering tuition costs to helping students meet the full cost of attending college.
New York Women’s Foundation Receives 2017 Leadership in Equity and Diversity Award from The Women’s Funding Network
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... similar programs. Young Women’s Initiatives leverage new resources as well as expertise, to ensure that girls, young ... the kind of initiatives that needs to grow right and we look forward to welcoming...
Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Warns Against Education Tax Credit
Release Date:
01/30/2015
... Gov. Andrew Cuomo provoked strong reactions with his proposals to reform education, particularly teacher ... as the program could sap the state's public education budget . Education tax credit programs, in...
When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)
Release Date:
02/29/2016
... app. It's a grant proposed in President Obama's new budget , reviving an idea that hasn't gotten much policy .....
New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors
Release Date:
11/08/2017
... also say their findings have implications for any proposals to change the Social Security retirement age, ... now in their 50s and below in order to stretch the federal budget ... New Study Funded By The Alfred...
New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors
Release Date:
11/08/2017
... also say their findings have implications for any proposals to change the Social Security retirement age, ... now in their 50s and below in order to stretch the federal budget ... New Study Funded By The Alfred...
Philanthropy New York Names Kathryn O’Neal-Dunham Chief Operations Officer
Release Date:
01/31/2014
... pro-bono program to improve nonprofit capacity in Human Resources , Technology, Fundraising and Project Management. ... created the Targeted Impact Fund, oversaw a $43 million budget , implemented a major...
What Does Affordable Mean in an Unaffordable City?
Release Date:
06/11/2019
... pushes forward strategies for advancing self-sufficiency. Resources like these are important for philanthropy. They ...
How Can We Be Better Funders? Let's Do the Homework
Release Date:
05/26/2021
... public documents. We just have to know where to look . Here are some ways we can continue to minimize the ...
Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings
Release Date:
12/09/2015
... a year interest for a “payday loan” or help them to budget better, much less save for retirement. Consumers had ...
NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... charge for its initial passage. Created by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the program is a joint state-federal ...
Commonwealth Fund: What Are the Potential Effects of the Graham-Cassidy ACA Repeal-and-Replace Bill? Past Estimates Provide Some Clues
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has indicated that it will not release a ... its effects on insurance coverage for several weeks, but Senate leaders have indicated...
38th Annual Meeting Recap: The Power of Participation
... away from identifying bad content, i.e. "fake news," and look at how misinformation propagates to learn from it and ... work, and the power of "spect-acting" in humanizing policy proposals...
Pete Peterson and Our Chaotic National Debates
Release Date:
04/06/2018
... our current political chaos by shifting more political resources toward efforts to find sensible, consensus ... income, and the consequences of fiscal policy go beyond budget deficits to affect issues such as...