Site Search

- resource provided by the Forum Network Knowledgebase.
Search Tip: Search with " " to find exact matches.

Report Outlines Internet and Broadband "Vision" for LGBT Community

Release Date:

06/26/2014

... LGBT community in all aspects of life and according to a new report, they can do more. The LGBT Technology ... Vision for Inclusion: An LGBT Broadband Future , describes how , among other things, these...

Find More By

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Palette Fund

Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans

Release Date:

09/18/2014

... happy with their plans, despite widespread discontent over how they signed up, according to a new poll. About 70 percent of people who bought healthcare ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Commonwealth Fund

The Commonwealth Fund Ranks Health Care Systems for All 50 States

Release Date:

03/27/2015

... others. Look up rankings of health providers and consider how well you'll be taken care of in your old age wherever you ... in 2014 were Minnesota, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Worst were...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Commonwealth Fund

ASPCA-Backed Program Uses Dogs to Help Teach NYC Students About Animal Welfare

Release Date:

06/01/2015

... Animal Welfare Some cuddly canines are helping teach New York City school students serious lessons about animal ... is more than puppy therapy. The youngsters are learning how to promote compassion for animals...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

North Star's Hogan Calls for de Blasio to Give Acitivists a Bigger Role in Policymaking

Release Date:

08/14/2015

... they understand what moves voters to act. Here in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has regularly spoken ... ardent account of what that connection would look like and how it would influence him.... North...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

North Star Fund

Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth

Release Date:

01/22/2016

... helps foster kids keep their documents organized, shows how the foundation seeks out and supports new ways to help foster youth. . . Chronicle of Social ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Related Organizations

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Ford Foundation-Backed Incubator Generates $100M in Loans, Nearly $1M in Savings

Release Date:

02/11/2016

... Generates $100M in Loans, Nearly $1M in Savings A new report details how an incubator created by the Filene Research Institute, ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Economic Security

Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College

Release Date:

02/26/2016

... never completing their degree at all. A new report, The Real Value of What Students Do in College , ... Robert Shireman, offers specific recommendations for how the U.S. Department of Education could promote a...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance

Release Date:

03/30/2016

... to Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance, a new report by TCF senior fellow Andrew Stettner, our current ... Stettner outlines a pathway to solvency, explaining how policies like employee financing...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Economic Security

Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists

Release Date:

04/08/2016

... of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, were learning how to handle not just the unexpected payouts but also the ... elation. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation created a new grant program — the Doris Duke...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Doris Duke Foundation

Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation

Release Date:

05/05/2016

... more ownership of companies to workers. It’s not a new idea — worker cooperatives have been around since the ... close look, and published a report called Ours to Share: How Worker Ownership Can Change the...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Economic Security

13 Oct 2016

Why is Wage Theft on the Rise as the Minimum Wage Increases to $15?

Thursday, October 13, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... more difficult, yet more urgent than ever. Explore: How we can reverse the effects of wage theft How we can level ... & Workers Association Terri Gerstein , Labor Bureau Chief, New York...

Find More By

Event type

Format

Audience

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Workforce Development

Ford Foundation's Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation' Article on Future of Philanthropy

Release Date:

07/21/2016

... inception, both donors and the larger public have debated how individuals can deploy their accumulated wealth to serve ... Age, marked by the accumulation of vast fortunes and a new generation of donors who...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Reports Detail Impacts of Clinton and Trump Health Reform Proposals

Release Date:

09/23/2016

... the RAND Corporation to crunch the numbers and find out how some of the candidates’ proposals would affect health ... the U.S. You can now learn all about the findings in two new Commonwealth Fund reports, our...

Find More By

News type

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Commonwealth Fund

Stonewall Community Foundation Accepting Proposals for LGBTQ Youth Services

Release Date:

10/07/2016

... challenges to service provision for LGBTQ youth in New York City in unique and novel ways. One-year ... October 20th, 2016. For more on eligibility and how to apply, please download the Request for Proposal...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Stonewall Community Foundation

Supported by Mellon Foundation, Hybrid Publishing Platform Launches In Beta Form

Release Date:

04/07/2017

... along with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and coders at Cast Iron Coding, have since 2015 ... rethink the procedures of scholarly publishing, including how to better serve authors whose...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Communications/Media

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation

Release Date:

05/23/2017

... segregation. Now, a Penn State researcher is looking at how student assignment policies may be impacting the ... Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, the new generation of school choice...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

William T. Grant Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

Release Date:

06/23/2017

... which is publicly available online, relies on estimating how much carbon-dioxide pollution is avoided as buyers want ... year to a record $123 billion, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecast.....

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

MetLife Foundation Noted Among Funders of Arts and Justice Initiative

Release Date:

07/19/2017

... Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund as Exhibit A in how legacy institutions can appeal to donors increasingly ... to be held in September in Los Angeles and in March in New York City. . . MetLife...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Clarity Needed In Clean Labeling

Release Date:

08/30/2017

Clarity Needed In Clean Labeling The “why” and “ how ” behind a product have become as important as the product itself, according to new research from the Nielsen Co. Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Pages

Filter By

Content Type

Funding area

Topic

Audience