Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)
Release Date:
02/19/2016
... from the private and philanthropic sectors to discuss what the title implies: impact investing and its potential to ...
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Doris Duke Foundation Supports New Website Focusing on Refugees
Release Date:
03/08/2016
... which did nothing to dispel Lara Setrakian's belief that what was required was a news site devoted exclusively to this .....
Century Foundation Report: The Real Price of College
Release Date:
03/15/2016
... students, the real price of college is much higher than what recruitment literature, conventional wisdom, and even ...
Sage Foundation Research Indicates Americans May Not Be Ready for Tax Increase on Wealthy
Release Date:
05/11/2016
... high and rising. At the same time, many governments are struggling to balance budgets while maintaining spending ... to spread their wealth around, it’s helpful to consider what prompted past governments –...
Peterson Foundation's Fiscal Summit Convenes Leaders To Discuss Economic Priorities for Next President
Release Date:
05/11/2016
... and ability to confront our greatest threats tomorrow are dependent on our leaders today. If the next president ... and thought leaders will offer their recommendations on what needs to be accomplished in the...
Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff
Release Date:
05/23/2016
... pro-democracy programs in Eurasia. The Foundations are the philanthropic creation of George Soros, the ... protests against Donald Trump by secretly funding what it called a “rent-a-mob.” Geraghty, who is ...
Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships
Release Date:
07/08/2016
... headline in the New York Times’s opinion section read, " Are Not a Privilege." The op-ed was by Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation, and it discussed what he called "America’s internship-...
20
Sep
2016
New York Grantmakers in the Arts - Fall Meeting
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Arts and Culture funders, come together to discuss what we see as the pressing issues in the field so as to ...
Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS
Release Date:
09/23/2016
Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS What can microbes from space tell scientists on Earth? The world is about to find out as experts are currently analyzing fungi grown from microbe samples ... to...
NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member
Release Date:
10/31/2016
... of its money by selling sugary drinks and fatty snacks. What ’s more, there is a well-established link between ...
Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed
Release Date:
11/11/2016
... (questioning the bias of a judge based on ethnicity). What set Donald Trump apart, wrote the University of Texas ...
City Outside Monrovia Admitted to 100 Resilient Cities Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation
Release Date:
12/01/2016
... announcement preceded Ms. Liz Agbor-Tabi's presentation of what it meant for Paynesville to earn the membership, and .....
Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education
Release Date:
12/14/2016
... of Parents Funding College Education More parents today are financially supporting — and paying more — for their ... Emily Rauscher, a KU assistant professor of sociology. “ What makes this a concern is that...
09
Mar
2017
Equity, Inclusion, and Connecting with Community in Family Philanthropy - Webinar
Thursday, March 9, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
... to private and family foundation staff and trustees only.* What does inclusivity mean for family philanthropy? How can ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn
Release Date:
01/04/2017
... Challenges In Brooklyn Forty people sit in a circle. Most are residents of Crown Heights, a dynamic, culturally rich ... sixty years. All were there to answer the key question, “ What is our shared vision for...
Ms. Foundation Supports New Civil Rights Video: 'We Won't Go Back'
Release Date:
01/18/2017
... be more important than ever for us to stand together for what we know is right. Check out our new video , and then ...
How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... which Cuomo himself held from 2007 through 2010 -- bypass what many came to see as an inherent conflict of interest faced by district attorneys who are assigned to investigate and, when warranted, prosecute ...
Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding
Release Date:
03/17/2017
... elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence. In 1965, ... actors -- come to terms with their segregated world. There are suddenly no blacks to...
Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75
Release Date:
04/04/2017
... How might the ingredients of its success be described? What lessons can it offer? The Fund’s founding brothers ...
Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs
Release Date:
05/01/2017
... why people leave theoretically cush tech jobs. What are the motivations of "tech leavers"? More than anything .....