Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... or interpreting a campaign promise—let alone building a fulfilling career or educating their children.” ...
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Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.
Release Date:
10/10/2017
In November, voters statewide will face a more expansive question — whether to amend the State Constitution to allow towns to use small pieces of land in the “forever-wild” preserves in the Adirondacks and Catskills for small, but critical public...
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse
Release Date:
10/18/2017
... prints, paintings, and drawings from the collection— building a website to make them available to researchers and ...
SeaChange Capital Partners Co-Authors Report Highlighting Challenges Faced By Non-Profits In Philadelphia
Release Date:
11/27/2017
The report touches on universal themes—among them, the need for nonprofits to build reserves, the importance of contingency planning by nonprofit executives and boards, and the need for funders to support nonprofit overhead—its natural focus was on...
MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People
Release Date:
11/28/2017
MetLife Foundation and ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral design lab, created a partnership to innovate financial services based on the latest research from the science of human behavior.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President
Release Date:
02/07/2018
... and dedicated herself consistently to creating, building and sustaining highly successful institutions – ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty
Release Date:
05/07/2018
The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will include roughly a dozen two-year visiting faculty fellowships, according to Gennifer Weisenfeld, dean of the humanities at Duke.
Atlantic Philanthropies Releases Publication on Operating for Limited Life
Release Date:
12/11/2018
... out,” Atlantic’s culminating phase was conceived as a building up to make a lasting difference in the fields and ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards University of Glasgow Over $1.1M to Tackle Crohn's Disease in Children and Adults With a Novel Diet
Release Date:
07/30/2019
The University of Glasgow has received $1.1 million from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs
Release Date:
07/28/2014
... needs to take steps to prevent "eye-popping" prices of new drugs from driving health care costs so high that other ... blog. The two write that "if more and more" new high-priced drugs come...
JPMorgan Chase Report: Tech Jobs for All? Exploring the Promise & Pitfalls of U.S. Tech Training
Release Date:
03/09/2016
... of U.S. Tech Training JPMorgan Chase released a new report, "Tech Jobs for All?: Exploring the Promise & ... leaders, and the general public. The rapid growth of these new models for tech training –...
Weinberg Foundation Names Jonathan D. Hook Their First Chief Investment Officer
Release Date:
04/17/2014
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has named Jonathan D. Hook as its first Chief Investment Officer.
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Investing in Workplace Financial Wellness: Help for Lower-Income Employees - A Webinar
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
... help replicate these efforts as part of a broader asset building or financial capability strategy? Explore One ... inform how we all think about the role of the workplace in building financial security...
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2021
Scaling for Success - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP
Thursday, September 9, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:15pm
In this webinar, learn how families have scaled their operations strategically for impact.
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2021
Tax Credits: The Anti-poverty Tool of the 21st Century - A Webinar Hosted by Economic Opportunity Funders
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
... tax credits, cash supports and unemployment insurance in building a stronger, more equitable recovery How these improvements fit into the broader movement for building a just and inclusive economy Presenters...
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2024
It Gets Hotter Every Year: How to Proactively Fund the Heat Crisis - A Webinar Hosted by CDP
Thursday, April 11, 2024 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
This program is hosted by our partner, Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP), who has extended an invitation to PNY members. Extreme heat is the number one weather-related killer in North America and many other parts of the world. It kills more...
How We're Addressing the Overhead Fiction
Release Date:
11/24/2015
... here with the permission of the Ford Foundation for New York PhilanthroPost readers. To read the full piece, ... over the next five years, we will dedicate $1 billion for building institutions and networks...
Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline in Women in Workforce
Release Date:
07/28/2014
... States who are working or want to work has been declining, new evidence suggests that one way to stem the dip would to be mandate policies like paid leave. A new report from the White House Council of Economic...
Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation
Release Date:
08/17/2015
... of Wassaic to serve as the philanthropic foundation’s new Director of Programs. “Cecilia has worked for the ... said Foundation President Andrea Reynolds. In her new role, Ms. Stancell will work with the...
Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
01/13/2016
... Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness) A large new study reveals previously unknown risk factors associated ... become cone-shaped over time. The last decade has brought new treatment options, but many...