Ford Foundation's Hilary Pennington Appointed to The Center for Effective Philanthropy's Board
Release Date:
03/16/2014
... grantmaking in philanthropy as well as regional programming in Africa and the Middle East…. Ford ...
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05
Mar
2018
Rethinking Democracy Through Electoral Reform - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP
Monday, March 5, 2018 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Our current elections require systemic reforms to increase voter participation, counter racial and partisan gerrymandering, overcome zero-sum polarization, and advance a reflective and representative democracy.
NYT Opinion: Rockefeller Family Fund Director, Lee Wasserman asks "Why Are We Still Looking for Oil and Gas?"
Release Date:
07/25/2019
If an artist were to choose colors for portraits of public officials to represent their records on climate change, one color would suffice for Donald Trump: charcoal black. How better to capture the president’s efforts to increase the extraction of...
03
Feb
2016
It’s PUBLIC Transit: Funders Look at New Initiatives to Connect NYC’s People & Places
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 -
9:00am to 11:00am
... fare assistance for low-income New Yorkers, and making MTA rider data available for the public to examine and ...
Jocelynne Rainey, Ed.D. Announced as New President and CEO of Brooklyn Community Foundation
Release Date:
11/08/2021
Dr. Rainey’s appointment comes after an extensive search led by the Foundation’s Board Chairs, Nicole Gueron and Harsha Marti.
Marketplace IT Glitches: The Sky Is Not Falling
Release Date:
10/03/2013
Via The Commonwealth Fund, three researchers from Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms put the IT issues encountered during the rollout of the Affordable Care Act into perspective, comparing them to a...
10
Feb
2016
Put Your Foundation on the Impact Investing Map
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
You get the concept of impacting investing - merging social impact with financial results, unlocking private capital for social good, generating positive social and financial returns, and so on.
New Arcus Report on Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation Reveals Potential of Collaboration Among Industry, Conservation and Government Sectors
Release Date:
04/18/2014
... the lens of ape conservation. The timely report includes a case study examining threats of oil extraction in Africa’s ...
Testing New Kind Of Emergency Care
Release Date:
07/08/2014
... the former St. Vincent's Hospital in NYC, as as a test case for a new kind of care. The new facility located .....
Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology
Release Date:
06/17/2015
More than 90 foundations are committing at least 5% of their total endowment assets to new energy over the next five years, including RBF and Overbrook.
Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?
Release Date:
07/02/2015
... and act on climate. All said and done there is quite a case to be made for clean energy access. But outside the ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown's Nonpartisan Education Website
Release Date:
07/15/2015
... Education Website Is it news, or is it advocacy? In the case of the Seventy Four, a new news site focused on ...
The Nation Asks if Child Protective Services Has Gone Too Far
Release Date:
10/05/2015
... and Family Services. According to legal filings in the case , the investigator, Nancy Rodriguez, found that Felix’s ...
State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care Organizations: Milbank Memorial Fund Support
Release Date:
10/19/2015
... Berkeley, draws on evidence from the literature and four case studies to outline tools that state governments can use ...
JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices
Release Date:
11/04/2015
Simply changing kids' menu options can encourage healthier choices in restaurants and has been found to have some lasting effect on children's eating habits.
UJA-Federation of New York Seeks $40M From Bankrupt FEGS
Release Date:
02/09/2016
... FEGS The biggest unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy case of the massive social service charity FEGS Health & ...
Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration
Release Date:
02/23/2016
Halley Potter, a Century Foundation fellow, and Kimberly Quick, a policy associate, write about school integration issues throughout the nation in this op-ed for The New York Times.
Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change
Release Date:
04/21/2016
In Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change, Derrick Feldmann adeptly dissects many of the social movements we've become familiar with.
Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy
Release Date:
08/22/2016
... his distance from the Syrian war. Even as he has made the case that the conflict can be contained, the meltdown of the ...
Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration
Release Date:
02/03/2017
... associates of the 45th president, or even family, in the case of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Some are wealthy Wall ...