The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced that Thomas H. Kean, former Governor of New Jersey, has been unanimously elected Chair of the Board of Trustees.
The headlines are unrelenting: Four Teenagers Shot, One Fatally, at Housing Complex; Queens Girl, age 14, Fatally Shot on Bus; Brownsville Child Needlessly Dies from Gun Violence. Supported by state, city and private funding, emerging and innovative...
Funder collaboratives come in many shapes and sizes. There is no right or wrong way of doing them; it all is contingent upon the specifics of each group and their goals. Come hear collective impact guru Laura Herman interview three funder colleagues...
Please join us for an important conversation that will explore how funders can help both their grantees and the broader nonprofit sector become more resilient. Philanthropy New York has convened a number of its member foundations during the last...
The Carnegie Corporation of New York report indicates that the high Common Core standards could possibly double the current high school dropout rate, unless learning environments are drastically changed.
For microorganisms in the oceans -- including those that capture half of the carbon taken out of the atmosphere every day -- viruses are a major threat. But a paper to be published Jan. 25, 2016 in the journal Nature Microbiology shows that there's...
TCC Group launched a new tool, which is a free (for a limited time), online, statistically validated assessment measure that was developed to help foundations make sense of their institutional capacity strengths and challenges.
A new Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT), an online, statistically validated assessment measure was developed by TCC Group to help foundations make sense of their institutional capacity strengths and challenges.
Artstor President James Shulman will work with Earl Lewis and Mariët Westermann, president and vice president of the Foundation, respectively, on topics of strategic importance. Among his projects, Shulman will write about high-impact philanthropy,...