NY Rejects All Applications for New Charter Schools
Release Date:
05/21/2015
There were 15 total applications for new charter schools, including 12 in New York City.
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NYCT Awards Grants Totaling $9.1 Million
Release Date:
06/15/2015
The foundation has announced grants to 79 organizations.
New York-Based Groups Benefit From $23 Million Grants By the Conrad Hilton Foundation
Release Date:
06/27/2016
Westat, Inc. was awarded $400,000 to serve as the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning partner to the Foster Youth initiative strategy.
Russell Sage President Says He Is Optimistic on Poverty and Income Issues
Release Date:
09/14/2016
Sheldon Danziger, president of the Russell Sage Foundation, who, like other experts following poverty and income issues, had expected some improvement, but nothing this large.
Wallace Foundation Has Been Betting Big on Principals. What's It Learning?
Release Date:
11/01/2016
The funder recently launched a $47 million initiative to help universities improve their programs for developing principals. Before that was the funder's $85 million Principal Pipeline Initiative, which began in 2011.
Century Foundation Fellow Gives NYC Schools B-Minus in Efforts to Increase Diversity
Release Date:
11/02/2016
New York City’s schools are among the most segregated in the country — an issue that has attracted growing attention and advocacy.
Jonas Center Announces Partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs
Release Date:
11/15/2016
The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a first-of-its-kind partnership to establish a national network of nurse researchers, clinical experts and educators working to improve...
William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes School Choice for Inner-City Students
Release Date:
02/10/2017
High school choice policies attempt to improve the educational outcomes of poor and minority students by allowing access to high schools beyond neighborhood boundaries.
Bloomberg Launches Smart City Certification
Release Date:
04/11/2017
Two years after its inception, Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities program announced an initiative that will direct cities on how to use data to improve their smart infrastructure.
DOE Expands Comfort Dog Program In NYC Schools
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... help students and staff with social-emotional learning and improving the school environment. The dogs also assist in ...
The New York Life Foundation provides a $2m boost for students attending two prominent Historically Black Universities.
Release Date:
06/02/2022
... the intention of primarily serving the African-American community . There are 107 HBCUs, with many of them ... in 1867, is a prestigious destination for professionals in health , science, engineering, art, law,...
Learning in Place
Release Date:
07/14/2011
... the sector is. The same can be said of the philanthropic community —we vastly underestimate the complexity and scale ... within the political sector. We assume our grantmaking role makes us somewhat equal...
Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers
Release Date:
11/29/2017
The nonprofit’s Quill Connect tool, designed to improve students’ writing skills through online exercises, uses machine learning to help them create better sentences.
William T. Grant Foundation Announces Two New Grants to Better Relate Research to Action
Release Date:
04/13/2018
... “Both [programs] have a bias toward action, toward improving society and improving conditions for young people.” For a long time, ...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... are also steady funders in an area even closer to home: community development and housing. With a recent grant of $3.75 million to Enterprise Community Partners, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation .....
Simple and Fast City Contracting
Release Date:
07/17/2013
... New York City does business with thousands of nonprofit health and human services providers. We’re pleased to have ...
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy
Release Date:
01/29/2013
... at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Co-Chair of the NYS Ready Commission, discuss the ...
Grantmaking with a Gender Lens: Using a Gender Analysis
Publication date:
05/2004
... has led to new thinking in fields as diverse as public health , international development, juvenile justice, and ...
More Than Money: Making a Difference with Assistance Beyond the Grant
Publication date:
12/2008
... Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Winter Park Health Foundation, and the Wallace Foundation. More Than ...
Philanthropy Must Do More to Influence Policy, Say Government Officials
Release Date:
02/13/2013
... changes on pressing issues like poverty, criminal justice, health care, the environment, and education, government ...