Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals
Release Date:
09/08/2014
... has, traditionally, been overlooked. How about a new education reform push, one that focuses less on the ...
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NYCT, American Express, Ford Support Launch of Caribbean Cultural Center
Release Date:
09/17/2014
... Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), the nation' s foremost Afro-Caribbean cultural center, will break ground ... to the public in September, 2015. Activities at the new Center will include visual...
Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans
Release Date:
10/20/2014
... Fidelity reported a burst of giving after introducing a new iPhone application at the end of 2012. Using the free ...
Tiffany & Co. Foundation Among Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research
Release Date:
10/27/2014
... of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research A new study has found that implementing stricter fisheries ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College
Release Date:
10/28/2014
... now help every high school junior take the SAT. Delaware’ s governor has started a program to advise every ... a handful of institutions will announce an ambitious new effort on this front. Led by Bloomberg...
MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program
Release Date:
11/10/2014
... $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’ s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program The MasterCard ... financial services providers in Africa. At the program’ s inception UNCDF had secured USD 5.6...
John A. Hartford Foundation Forges Public-Private Partnership With CMMI to Spread "Hospital at Home" Model of Care
Release Date:
11/14/2014
... older adults, the John A. Hartford Foundation has formed a new public-private partnership with the Centers for Medicare ...
RPA, Ford, MasterCard Foundation Among Funders Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development
Release Date:
11/20/2014
... innovation and insight into the way we address the world' s most pressing issues. Against this backdrop, the United ... by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) have launched a new initiative to...
Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million
Release Date:
11/21/2014
... First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million A new , seven-foundation partnership created to support ...
Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities
Release Date:
12/10/2014
... to best bring broadband to their citizens, whether that' s figuring out how to build out Internet connections to historic buildings or passing bonds to pay for new fiber networks. Though the group is in...
MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
01/21/2015
... Roy, President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation. "This new Fund will stimulate private sector organizations to .....
Ford Foundation Joins Bipartisan Coalition to Change Criminal Justice System
Release Date:
02/20/2015
... found at least one thing they can agree on: The nation’ s criminal justice system is broken. Koch Industries, the ... liberal issues group, are coming together to back a new organization called the Coalition...
Increasing Public Understanding of Muslim Societies Drives Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program
Release Date:
03/16/2015
... Societies Drives Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art' s Building Bridges Program The Doris Duke Foundation for ... Art (DDFIA) announced today that it is awarding nine U. S . nonprofit organizations a...
MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa
Release Date:
03/17/2015
... formal jobs or explore opportunities in agriculture. The new program is noteworthy not only for its scope, but for its ...
Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark
Release Date:
03/12/2015
... and AeroFarms, together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), announce ... in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ into the world’ s largest indoor vertical farm...
Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
Release Date:
03/25/2015
... Project and sustain ongoing education programs in U. S . and internationally. The Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project is a new NFTE initiative which offers dedicated programming, ...
Jonas Center Releases Homelessness Report Targeting Female Veterans
Release Date:
03/26/2015
... transferrable career skills and difficulty adjusting to new self-identities in civilian culture.... Jonas Center ...
Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'
Release Date:
04/03/2015
... knock over their grande latte, and audibly mutter, "What' s the point?" This problem is particularly acute among ... $515,000 to technology and media organizations to "support new work to...
Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017
Release Date:
04/10/2015
... Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U. S . Coal Plants By 2017 The Sierra Club and Michael ... coal-fired power shut down or slated for closure in the U. S . in the next two years. Coal plants are...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project
Release Date:
04/13/2015
... Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities throughout the U. S . Since then, the program has distributed more than $27 ... of the most significant...