Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth
Release Date:
01/22/2016
... Foundation and Its Massive Growth As I discussed in my post last week on funders helping foster youth age out ...
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JPMorgan Renews Veterans Partnership with $13.8M Commitment
Release Date:
03/01/2016
... 2020 to support the Institute’s mission of advancing the post -service lives of America’s service members, Veterans ...
Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery
Release Date:
03/18/2016
... a half times the pledged amount, reports The Washington Post . Made to mark the Washington institution's 75th .....
Rockefeller Family Fund Divests from Fossil Fuels and Exxon
Release Date:
03/24/2016
In a letter posted on its website, the Rockefeller Family Fund announced that it would divest from fossil fuels “as quickly as possible,” eliminating its holdings in ExxonMobil Corp., which it called “morally reprehensible.”
Rockefeller's Judith Rodin is One of Many Women Making Their Mark in Social-Impact Investing
Release Date:
07/27/2016
The concentration of women raises a perhaps uncomfortable question: Is the social-impact investment advisory sector a haven or a ghetto for women?
Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population
Release Date:
08/04/2016
... gift from the Open Society Foundations, abruptly left the post in late June, as did her deputy, Jill Harris. The ACLU ...
Stonewall Elects Neill Coleman as President
Release Date:
11/07/2016
... as President, succeeding Dante Mastri, who held the post for four years and guided the foundation through an ...
Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals
Release Date:
12/12/2016
Officials with the foundation say that the five-year program will support dramatic changes to the way principals are trained, specifically in creating partnerships with local colleges and universities to redesign teacher training.
UJA-Federation of New York Screens Holocaust Film Premiere in Long Island
Release Date:
01/03/2017
... people recently gathered at the Gold Coast Cinema at LIU- Post for UJA-Federation of New York’s Long Island screening ...
Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss
Release Date:
05/24/2017
... friendships with less closely related bats. Gerry Carter, post -doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...
Edna McConnell Clark’s PropelNext Initiative Shows Promising Results
Release Date:
06/12/2017
... assessment by the evaluation team suggests that two years post -PropelNext, most Alumni 2015 grantees are strengthening ...
Cuomo Assigns ‘Gang Prevention’ Cops to Long Island Schools Where MS-13, Others Thrive
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Calling schools “the breeding ground” for dangerous gangs like MS-13, Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday announced state police will be going into schools to combat the problem.
Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return
Release Date:
09/20/2017
Describing the results as “disappointing,” Harvard University reported on Tuesday that its $37.1 billion endowment earned an 8.1 percent return for its most recent fiscal year.
Study Finds Test-Score Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Analysis from a Stanford center says that on average, charter students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading.
Rockefeller Foundation Releases YieldWise: Cutting Food Loss in Half for World Food Day
Release Date:
10/17/2017
... our YieldWise initiative, dedicated to helping cut such post -harvest losses in half. Rockefeller Foundation Releases ...
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Haitians and Afghans in Crisis: Lessons for Rapid Resettlement
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Join us for a discussion of how advocacy groups and service providers are serving new arrivals, the relevant government policies and programs, and the role of philanthropy in helping those who arrive today—and improving the infrastructure for those...
Foundations as First Responders?
Release Date:
04/18/2013
... — lessons that enabled her to serve Brooklyn and its communities well following Hurricane Sandy. Foundations as ...
Foundations and Peer Review: Time to Reconsider the Process?
Release Date:
05/02/2017
... Medicine 88 (2013): 1740 http://www.winstonchurchill.org/ resources /quotations/the-worst-form-of-g... Foundations and ...
Stavros Niarchos Foundation expands Health Initiative with partnerships to fight infectious disease and mental illness worldwide
Release Date:
06/29/2022
... and to connect young people with the mental health resources they need. SNF’s ongoing approximately $750 ... a mission of expanding access to life-changing health care resources , a belief in the importance of...
Representing the Old And New in Brooklyn
Release Date:
03/10/2014
Brooklyn Community Foundation Chairman Alan Fishman, who has donated $1 million to the foundation, was also the Wall Street Journal's Donor of the Day.