Site Search

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Social Justice

New York Life Foundation Supports Ozone Park Students Learning about Start-up Businesses

Release Date:

10/23/2015

... a pilot program that brings entrepreneurial and technology resources to teach students real-world business skills, in an ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Community Development

Technology

Related Organizations

MetLife

Century Foundation Report Calls for Funding Reform for Community Colleges

Release Date:

05/28/2015

Century Foundation Report Calls for Funding Reform for Community Colleges Community colleges tend to receive the ... of low-income students into the middle class with few resources . A report...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

Wallace Foundation Releases New Report: How Principals Affect Students and Schools: A Systematic Synthesis of Two Decades of Research

Release Date:

02/17/2021

... finds that effective principals have positive impacts on student achievement and attendance, as well as teacher ... the 75th percentile of effectiveness yields an increase in student learning in reading and...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Wallace Foundation

Research Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation Finds Bonding Exercises Cut Discipline Disparity for Students of Color

Release Date:

04/04/2019

... at the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University ... Research Funded by the William T. Grant ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

William T. Grant Foundation

Related Organizations

Fourth Annual Verizon Innovative App Challenge Seeks Problem Solving Ideas From Students Nationwide

Release Date:

08/17/2015

... the Verizon Foundation in partnership with the Technology Student Association, the App Challenge offers hands-on, ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Technology

Related Organizations

Verizon

17 Aug 2016

Foundation Administrators Network Brown Bag Lunch - Implementing a Student Loan Repayment Benefit

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... meeting in 2013. We also look forward to discussing student loan repayment benefits and the different factors in ... innumerable benefits. This brown bag lunch will focus on student loan repayment benefits...

Find More By

Event type

Network Building

Format

Roundtable Discussion

Audience

HR & Operations Staff

Topic(s)

HR & Operations

14 Sep 2022

How Funders Are Helping Their Nonprofit Partners Get their Student Loans Forgiven by October – A Members Briefing Co-Hosted by PSLF.nyc

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

President Biden's recent student loan announcements were welcome news for low-income ... days we have an existing, massive, opportunity to forgive student debt. After 14 years with a deeply flawed system, we...

Find More By

Event type

Issue-Based

Format

Presentation

Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

Release Date:

10/06/2017

Traveling south about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania Route 43, visitors roll into Coal Center, home to Intermediate Unit 1, a regional education service agency. Intermediate Unit 1 also serves as home to a Fab Lab — a highly...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Bloomberg Philanthropies Partners with EdVestors to Bring Arts Internship Program to Boston High School Students

Release Date:

03/13/2019

... Boston to tap into our city’s vibrant arts and culture community and participate in ways they haven’t before,” ... skills while working in our world class museums and community -based cultural institutions will...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Arts

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

New Report from The Century Foundation on Students from Low-Income Families and Special Education

Release Date:

01/23/2019

A new TCF report finds that low-income students are more likely to be identified for special education and more likely to be placed in separate classrooms than their non-low-income peers. While the exact reasons for the differences are unknown, the...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

21 Jul 2022

Many Philanthropic Professionals Will Erase All Student Debt This Year: Can You?- A Webinar Hosted by the NYC Capacity Building Collaborative

Thursday, July 21, 2022 -

3:30pm to 4:30pm

... of Consumer Affairs, nearly 1 million New Yorkers have student loans, totaling almost $35 billion. The financial ... and Brown borrowers. Two decades after taking out their student loans, the median Black...

Find More By

Event type

Issue-Based

Format

Panel

Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Appointments & Transitions

Judy Miner Joins Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Board of Directors

Release Date:

01/24/2020

... in higher education. Her experience spans instruction, student services, and human resources responsibilities at City College of San Francisco, ... Endowment, Pebble Beach Authors and Ideas Festival, ...

Find More By

News type

Related Organizations

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

New York City’s Universal Pre-K Program Wants to Teach Parents, Too

Release Date:

09/09/2016

... This school year, the Department of Education and New York University will launch a new parenting program to help ...

Find More By

Funding Area

Are Student Debt Forgiveness Scams The Next Mortgage Meltdown?

Release Date:

09/22/2015

Are Student Debt Forgiveness Scams The Next Mortgage Meltdown? With student loan defaults on the rise, regulatory agencies are ... concerned about borrowers being preyed upon by student debt...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

Economic Security

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

Carnegie "Opportunity by Design" Schools To Help Immigrant Students

Release Date:

07/17/2014

Two new high schools will open in 2015 in Prince George’s County, Md., as part of Carnegie Corporation of New York's Opportunity by Design initiative, an effort to assist immigrant students who often struggle to keep up academically with their peers.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Related Organizations

Bronx Charter School Caters to Students on the ‘Margins’

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... comfort. And from time to time, class parties celebrate a student ’s adoption. The Bronx charter is believed to be the ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Rockefeller Foundation Funds Tickets for Students to See 'Hamilton'

Release Date:

10/28/2015

The hit musical “Hamilton” has excited critics and audiences with its hip-hop exploration of America’s revolutionary era. Now educators and philanthropists are hoping it will excite high school students as well.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Arts

The Rockefeller Foundation

Related Organizations

Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes

Release Date:

09/19/2017

Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes Concussions among young people are seen as a silent epidemic. As student athletes begin the next season of activities, experts ... . . Experts...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

New York City Students Are Getting Younger

Release Date:

10/05/2017

New York City's preschool expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4-year-olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the school system over the course of two years.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area