Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... charter schools view themselves as scrappy upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school ...
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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... Absences To Measure School Success How do you judge how good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the ...
Salesforce Launches $50 Million Initiative To Fuel Social Impact Startups
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... Impact Startups Salesforce continues to build a social good movement within the technology sector. Since it was ...
Salesforce Launches $50 Million Impact Fund to Invest in Social Change Startup
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... Change Startup Salesforce continues to build a social good movement within the technology sector. Since it was ...
How this Slogan Has Defined Philanthropy for the Buffets and the NoVo Foundation
Release Date:
12/12/2017
... has not corroded the Buffetts’ instincts. They have good radar. Warren Buffett’s 59-year-old youngest son ...
Arcus Foundation Shares Findings from the Grantee Perception Report Administered by the Center for Effective Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/26/2021
Arcus sought grantee feedback against four key performance goals.
Digital Badges: What They Are and Why Funders Should Pay Attention (Part 1)
Release Date:
06/13/2014
... Learning Network , a consortium of museums, libraries, and youth -serving nonprofits that work together to help teens ... leading an effort to use badging to transform education, youth development, and...
Manage Difficult Workplace Conversations Like a Jedi
Release Date:
04/13/2017
... Nonprofits webinar, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , on self- care for nonprofits on April 25 th from 3:30pm-4:30pm for a ... and Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York members. Resources Research: The Work...
Fewer Rocks & a Traffic Light = Greater Effectiveness & More Success
Release Date:
12/14/2010
... role. Wellspring first considered “off the shelf” resources , particularly to strengthen its financial due ... expenses), when used in combination, proved to be good predictors of financial health. The rest...
Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research
Release Date:
12/09/2015
... Autism BrainNet is a key step in developing the necessary resources to understand and treat autism spectrum ...
Stephanie Bencivenga Joins Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Release Date:
01/01/2013
Stephanie Bencivenga is the Program Assistant for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Sustainable Development program. Prior to joining the RBF, Bencivenga worked in sustainability communications, where she helped develop environmental messaging...
Data is Needed to Address Worldwide Women's Issues
Release Date:
12/16/2014
Hillary Clinton, Bloomberg Philanthropies and UN Foundation teamed up to gather data and advance women's initiatives.
New Report Offers Framework to Analyze Effects of Potential Changes to the US Food System
Release Date:
01/14/2015
The JPB Foundation-funded study examines the relationship between health, environment, society and the economy.
Covenant Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Health and Well-Being of Jewish Teen Girls
Release Date:
04/14/2015
The Study looked at four key areas of development: building self-esteem, empowerment, fostering peer-to-peer relationships and cultivating deeper Jewish connections.
ASPCA-Backed Program Uses Dogs to Help Teach NYC Students About Animal Welfare
Release Date:
06/01/2015
The program currently operates in Washington Heights and will expand to two summer camps this year.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Public Arts Challenge Winners
Release Date:
06/29/2015
Through its Public Art Challenge, Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced two-year grants of up to $1 million each to six cities for temporary public art projects.
Open Society and MacArthur Foundations to be Banned by Russia Along with Many Others
Release Date:
07/14/2015
... a list after 15 years in Russia holding teacher seminars, promoting volunteerism and working with local schools on ...
Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Publishes New Volume: 'Higher Education Effectiveness'
Release Date:
04/08/2016
"Effectiveness" and "efficiency" are dirty words to some people in academe, often promoted by government technocrats or by those who believe higher education can be reduced to measurable outcomes that show up on the bottom line.
Mellon Foundation Contributes to 'THATcamp' on Humanities and Technology
Release Date:
04/21/2016
... evolving field. THATCamp is a national series of events promoting digital humanities – broadly defined as the use ...
Inaugural All Female Festival Launches In New York
Release Date:
05/09/2016
Participants include Rosario Dawson, Reshma Saujani (Girls Who Code), CFDA winner Aurora James, and YouTube vlogger Lindsey Stirling.