Investment in Light Rail Program Helps Create Jobs, Stimulate Economy
Release Date:
06/17/2014
... Opportunity initiative, notes that “Ford was among the national and local funders who came together to create the ...
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Jacqueline Jones Named President of Foundation for Child Development
Release Date:
07/01/2014
... Foundation for Child Development Jacqueline Jones, a national leader in the movement for high-quality early ...
Boards as an Accountability Mechanism
Publication date:
06/2014
... from over 5,100 nonprofits in the Urban Institute National Survey of Nonprofit Governance . It discusses ...
Uninsured Rate Drops From 20 Percent to 15 Percent Due To ACA
Release Date:
07/10/2014
... 9.5 million fewer U.S. adults were uninsured. The national uninsured rate among working age-adults dropped from ...
Hunger-Relief Programs Receive Morgan Stanley Support To Feed More Children
Release Date:
07/09/2014
The Morgan Stanley Foundation is awarding more than $1 million in grants to local food banks and their hunger-relief programs that deliver nutritious meals to children and families in 27 cities and 17 states.
Partnership Aims To Boost Service Positions For Young People, Increase Adult Volunteers
Release Date:
07/14/2014
... volunteerism and the number of young people involved in national service in NYC will benefit a wide range of areas ...
New York Community Trust Ranked Number Three In Total Assets
Release Date:
07/15/2014
A new report that ranks community foundations by asset size finds that The New York Community Trust is number three in the nation with $2.4 billion.
Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies
Release Date:
07/24/2014
Forward-thinking school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can improve educational outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial-equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies...
Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline in Women in Workforce
Release Date:
07/28/2014
Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline Of Women in Workforce As economists search for an explanation for why the percentage of women in the United States who are working or want to work has been...
Century Foundation Announces Janice Nittoli "Forward Thinking" Award
Release Date:
11/03/2014
... to TCF’s roster. Under her watch, TCF fellows won a National Magazine Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and a MacArthur ...
MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program
Release Date:
11/10/2014
MasterCard Foundation is investing in small businesses in developing countries.
RPA, Ford, MasterCard Foundation Among Funders Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development
Release Date:
11/20/2014
The partnership will focus on global development post-2015.
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2014
New OMB Guidance on Indirect Costs: What It Does and Why It Matters - Webinar
Monday, December 8, 2014 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
... Presenter David Thompson, Vice President of Public Policy, National Council of Nonprofits Designed for All Philanthropy ...
JPMorgan CEO's $100 Million Plan to Turn Detroit Around
Release Date:
02/18/2015
CEO Jamie Dimon was featured on CBS News to discuss the organization's $100 million, five-year commitment to Detroit.
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Studies Impact of Volunteerism
Release Date:
03/06/2015
... randomized control trial examined Reading Partners, a national nonprofit organization that engages volunteers to ...
Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark
Release Date:
03/12/2015
... community with an unemployment rate that is twice the national average. Additionally, AeroFarms has partnered ...
Alfred P. Sloan and Simons Tapped to Offset Federal Budget Cuts in Science Funding
Release Date:
03/17/2015
The coalition, the Science Philanthropy Alliance, has picked Marc Kastner as its first president.
Arcus Develops Action Plan to Save Great Apes in Africa
Release Date:
04/08/2015
... in the region occur outside of protected areas. While national and international laws protect the Critically ...
Ms. Foundation for Women President Amerita Examines Impact of Take Our Daughters to Work Day
Release Date:
04/24/2015
... before there was such a thing, and it suddenly became a national phenomenon. On that first day of the first year of ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust and Sloan Foundation Back Data Science Collaboration
Release Date:
07/08/2015
... Fernando Perez of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Brian Granger of Cal Poly will lead ...