MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab
Release Date:
12/08/2015
... to help millions of Americans improve their saving and spending habits. The Lab will be managed by Duke’s ...
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Crotona Park East and Morrisania Have City's Highest Rate of Jailed Residents, Data2Go.NYC Shows (Helmsley Charitable Trust)
Release Date:
01/20/2016
... Crotona Park East and Morrisania — are more likely to be spending the night behind bars than people who live in any ...
Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation
Release Date:
03/16/2016
Strong principals are critical components of successful schools, and Wallace Foundation will be investing millions of dollars in research into what makes a principal effective.
Carnegie Corporation of New York Funds Primer to Guide Students on College Choices
Release Date:
10/17/2016
The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences received $2.2 million from Carnegie Corporation of New York for this initiative.
NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing
Release Date:
04/17/2017
Last week, the foundation announced that it would commit $1 billion to investments that “earn not only attractive financial returns but concrete social returns as well,” as it said in a news release.
With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans
Release Date:
05/05/2017
Americans age 50 and older who report that they have been incarcerated at some point in their lives are more likely to express anxiety about several aspects of retirement, to have experienced unemployment in the recent past, and to have fewer...
Creating A Positive Workplace Culture - A Little Kindness Goes A Long Way
Release Date:
08/28/2017
On methods and benefits of promoting positivity in the workplace
How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing
Release Date:
12/12/2017
Last week, the fund launched Propel Democracy, a new $5 million effort that seeks 'to catalyze investment in local organizing strategies that build progressive political power in states of critical electoral importance.'
Jim Simons, the Numbers King
Release Date:
12/13/2017
... relatively limited, and when he retired he found himself spending most of his time managing his charitable assets and ...
Peterson Foundation on National Debt Surpassing $21 Trillion
Release Date:
03/19/2018
... the effects of the recent fiscally irresponsible tax and spending legislation, which added more debt on top of an ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty
Release Date:
05/07/2018
The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will include roughly a dozen two-year visiting faculty fellowships, according to Gennifer Weisenfeld, dean of the humanities at Duke.
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Jun
2018
Policy Core Course 2018 - June 14th Sessions
Thursday, June 14, 2018 -
9:00am to 12:45pm
... from this half-day will guide participants in how to use advocacy as a strategy for achieving impact, and how to ... - 12:45 PM Programming Registration is required by June 13 . Note : Please indicate if you...
27
Jun
2025
Navigating Headwinds: Lessons in Leadership, Capacity, and Allyship
Friday, June 27, 2025 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Virtual Meeting - Register by 6/26
... Council (CPC) , Vera Institute of Justice , and Human Services Council (HSC) in building resilience and capacity ... adaptive, and more secure nonprofit partnerships. Join us to better understand today’s...
Nitrogen’s Impact Changes Climate Forecast
Release Date:
04/28/2015
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded study more accurately reflects the effect of nitrogen in climate change models.
MAC AIDS Fund Supports New Video On Transgender Bathroom Access
Release Date:
06/24/2016
... about the open bathroom access that allows anyone to use bathrooms of the sex they identify with — a ... explain, one by one, why they should simply be allowed to use the bathroom of their choosing. Richards...
Ford Foundation Paper Cited in Wired Article on the Future of Open Source Code
Release Date:
08/11/2016
... Code Our modern society runs on software. But the tools we use to build software are buckling under increased demand. ...
Legal Aid Society Slams State’s Familial DNA Testing Proposal as Abuse Of Power
Release Date:
09/13/2017
The Legal Aid Society launched a broadside Monday at the state’s familial DNA testing proposal, saying the move is an abuse of power.
Co-Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of NY Meredith Jenkins Goes to Trinity Wall Street
Release Date:
01/19/2016
... and real estate portfolio in order to advance Trinity’s global ministries, which include social justice and ... and remarkable growth in the endowment, which allowed us to expand the foundation’s grantmaking...
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces Retirement of William B. Petersen, CIO
Release Date:
01/20/2015
William B. Petersen has been employed at Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1998.