My Brother’s Keeper Merges with Obama Foundation
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... initiative that later spun off into a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit known as the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, or ...
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LGBTQ Groups Adjust to More Married Donors
Release Date:
09/07/2017
The revolution in civil and legal rights for LGBTQ Americans has wrought a parallel shift in fundraising tactics for nonprofits that worked to bring about those changes. Charities that once focused mostly on unmarried, often childless people are now...
The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Communications strategy should be flexible, scrappy, and accessible to everyone on your team. This four-question framework, rooted in social science, can help organizations craft an effective strategy that drives real social change.
Foundation Presidents Defend Donor-Advised Funds—Is That the Best They Can Do?
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Earlier this month, a coalition of philanthropic trade associations—namely, the Council of Foundations, Independent Sector, The Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Columbus Foundation (on behalf of community foundations)—wrote a letter (which...
Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change. The New York City nonprofit was established in 1986 to honor the legacy of ...
The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... advocates are ringing alarm bells. WNYC and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom focused on guns in America, took a look at ...
Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... said Allen Fagin, CEO of the Orthodox Union, a Jewish nonprofit group based in Manhattan. . . Jewish Group Slams ...
‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... 18 such programs around the city from the global nonprofit Cure Violence in 2010, drawing funds from the U.S. ...
What Business Can Learn From Buddhism
Release Date:
10/02/2017
Millennials, we are told, have a different attitude to work than their elders. They want to work for organisations committed to values and ethics, where there is a higher purpose than simply making a profit.
12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... Alliance launched in 2015, will soon go national, the nonprofit ’s president and CEO Roland Lewis said. . . 12 ...
New York Is Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... housing court,” said Sergio Jimenez, an attorney at the nonprofit Brooklyn Defender Services. “All of the landlords ...
Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash Nonprofit lenders in the U.S. with a mission to make capital ...
More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... York Association of Training & Employment Professionals, a nonprofit group representing the workforce development ...
JPMorgan Chase Releases New Report As Part Of Its Global Workforce Training Efforts
Release Date:
10/16/2017
... strengthen collaboration between the public, private and nonprofit sectors.. JPMorgan Chase Releases New Report As ...
American Express Grant Will Help Renovations at Historic Utah Pickle Company Building
Release Date:
11/03/2017
American Express teamed up with private, non-profit group called The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Main Street America teamed up with and held a nationwide competition between 25 cities to grant them up to $150,000 to restore a...
Century Foundation Fellow Addresses How this Higher Education Bill Will Only Increase Inequality
Release Date:
12/12/2017
Anti-poverty activists are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill that would allow students at for-profit colleges to get the same kind of tuition assistance being offered to their non-profit counterparts.
JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods
Release Date:
05/11/2018
... It is the first project of this type for the nonprofit real estate developer and is the first scaled, ...
UJA-Federation of New York Mobilizes 3,000 Volunteers for 70 Service Projects on MLK Day
Release Date:
01/16/2019
On Monday, January 21, more than 3,000 New Yorkers will participate in UJA-Federation of New York’s third region-wide MLK Day of Service.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton to Address Philanthropists on Women and Girls Issues
Release Date:
05/05/2014
... York Women’s Foundation Julia Jean-Francois,Co-Director, Center for Family Life Sherry Leiwant, Co-President, A Better ... What are the best opportunities for philanthropy to support full inclusion of women...