Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn
Release Date:
12/16/2015
... Lefferts Gardens), and Latrice Walker (Brownsville), and City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo (Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, ...
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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos
Release Date:
01/21/2016
The Rockefeller Foundation plans to announce at Davos that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to reduce food waste around the world. The wide-ranging plan will stretch from thrown-out crops to excess food at the dinner table.
Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools, but Critics Want More
Release Date:
01/25/2016
... million in the next fiscal year to help beef up budgets at city schools that are currently well below what they should ...
Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers
Release Date:
04/13/2016
... Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers The labor-friendly City Council has taken up the cause of home-care workers. ...
F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century
Release Date:
06/08/2016
... and the manufacture of value-add products and, therefore, city location is less of a factor for business’ location ...
Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings
Release Date:
09/29/2016
... Jr. and others who opposed segregation. Now the Alabama city that was the first capital of the Confederacy is set to ...
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Views the Arts as a "Community Anchor"
Release Date:
12/12/2016
“High-impact” and “visionary” are two terms the Bank of America Charitable Foundation uses to describe the organizations that earn its support. In the realm of arts and culture, that boils down to high-impact and visionary programs that contribute...
JPMorgan Chase’s Investment in Detroit to Reach $150 Million
Release Date:
05/11/2017
... as well as improving economic conditions in the city . "Detroit’s resurgence is a model for what can be .....
Russell Sage Foundation Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty"
Release Date:
06/01/2017
Americans think of suburbs as prosperous areas that are relatively free from poverty and unemployment. Yet, today more poor people live in the suburbs than in cities themselves.
Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!
Release Date:
07/19/2017
The Funders' Network is offering PLACES Fellowships, which are transformational leadership development experiences that gives professionals in philanthropy the tools, knowledge, and best practices needed to embed an equity lens into their work.
A Golf Center Grows in Harlem
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... player from the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city ’s best teams. As his team’s No. 1 man, Juan had to ...
Bedford-Union Armory Redevelopment Should Not Have Condos, Says Borough President
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... be fully affordable considering it’s being built on city land. . . Bedford-Union Armory Redevelopment Should Not ...
How JPMorgan Chase Is Fueling Detroit’s Revival
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... the picture you might conjure when you read that the city ’s population has shrunk by 60% since World War II, or ...
Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... Procedure through which a zoning change becomes law. As City Limits reported, the rezoning proposal is opposed in its ...
The Fatal Stabbing In A Bronx Classroom Was Horrific — But Also Extremely Rare
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... School for Wildlife Conservation are still coming in, but city officials have confirmed that two teenage students were ...
Trump’s Stake in Housing Complex Spurs Lawsuit Over Sale
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... Housing Complex Spurs Lawsuit Over Sale Owners of Starrett City are trying to offload the massive Brooklyn housing ...
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse
Release Date:
10/18/2017
... history—meticulously documenting the excavations of the city ’s 3,000 years of continuous settlement. Today, ...
Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing
Release Date:
11/02/2017
... data-weaving experiment was presented last week in Quebec City at the Association for Computing Machinery’s User ...
Aetna Foundation’s Healthiest Communities Initiative Provides Insight into Social Determinants of Health
Release Date:
03/26/2018
The purpose of the Healthiest Communities project is to provide residents, policymakers and health leaders with insight into factors called the social determinants of health that affect everyone's quality of life and longevity.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Announces the Election of Ana Marie Argilagos and Anand Babu to Its Board of Directors
Release Date:
01/29/2019
Argilagos is president and CEO of Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP), a network of foundations and philanthropists working to increase the power and influence of Latino communities across the Americas.