New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... We didn’t need World Water Week last week to remind us that too little and too much water can both be problems ...
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One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos
Release Date:
09/06/2017
Denisse Rojas, a third-year medical student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on Tuesday took the news of the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, with a mixture...
Mayor De Blasio: NYC Will Continue to Support People Who Rely on DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... participate in the American Dream. Right now, for all of us across the United States, but especially in New York — ...
Houston's Undocumented Immigrants Left Destitute And Fearful In Harvey's Wake
Release Date:
09/07/2017
As the water rose on their first floor apartment, Rosa Sosa and her family fled to a vacant unit on the second floor. They watched in horror as it continued to rise, as it swallowed most of the cars in the parking lot that rings their sprawling two-...
States Sue To Block DACA Termination, Citing Trump's 'Racial Animus'
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Several states are suing the Trump administration to block it from terminating the program protecting young immigrants known as DREAMers.
Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Party politics and constant Twitter barbs aside, the vast tidal changes in Washington are sweeping away decades of collaboration and interdependence that ties the U.S. government to America’s millions of nonprofits.
Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications
Release Date:
09/11/2017
The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for its Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards. The deadline for receipt of letters of intent (LOI) is November 6, 2017 , 5:00 PM Eastern Time.
The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Pressed for workers, a New Jersey-based software company went hunting for a U.S. city with a surplus of talented employees stuck in dead-end jobs.
Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... “Although there have been minor improvements that move us in the right direction, we continue to institutionalize a ...
Silent Killer: Sweltering Planet Braces For Deadly Heat Shocks
Release Date:
09/19/2017
As hurricanes and floods grab headlines, heatwaves associated with climate change are claiming lives around the world.
Poverty Falls, Income Rises. Should De Blasio Get the Credit?
Release Date:
09/20/2017
The New Yorkers who live in that other city Mayor Bill de Blasio talks about so often—the one he wants to help—are doing much better these days. The question is how much credit he deserves for it.
Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Chefs Boot Camp initiative is part of the James Beard Foundation's education and outreach programming and represents a relatively new step in the culinary community: the recognition that chefs can — and should — try to influence food-systems policy...
Can You Ask for Salary History in Your State?
Release Date:
09/27/2017
Your lawyer might agree with Miss Manners that you shouldn’t ask people how much money they make, especially if they’re job candidates.
New York Charity With Large Stake in China’s HNA Group Rethinks Tax Status
Release Date:
10/02/2017
Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co. is rethinking whether to seek tax-exempt status for a New York foundation that the company said would become its biggest shareholder, raising questions about its plans for the charity.
Mellon Grant to Help Seattle Art Museum Establish Asian Paintings Conservation Center
Release Date:
10/27/2017
The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has received a $3.5 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish and endow a center dedicated to the conservation, mounting and study of Asian paintings.
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Awards More than $2.5 Million to South Florida Nonprofits in 2017
Release Date:
11/28/2017
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation announced today that 125 nonprofits in South Florida have collectively been awarded more than $2.5 million in grants in 2017.
In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents
Release Date:
02/22/2018
In direct response to a lawsuit filed by The Century Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education has started to release documents regarding two higher education accrediting agencies with a history of regulatory noncompliance: the Accrediting...
Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism
Release Date:
02/23/2018
... giving are fundamentally about whom we trust to lead us to change, whom we think of as strategic, and how we ...
JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods
Release Date:
05/11/2018
... with the city’s goal to build one Detroit for all of us ,” says Arthur Jemison, director of housing and ...
Supported in Part by Ford Foundation, Smithsonian Launches American Women’s History Initiative
Release Date:
11/14/2018
The initiative strives to be the nation’s most comprehensive undertaking to document, research, collect, display and share the rich, complete and compelling story of women in America. It will greatly increase the Smithsonian’s research and...