The Army Infantry’s First Women
Release Date:
05/26/2017
... The first group of women graduated from United States Army infantry training last week, but with soldiers ...
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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair
Release Date:
06/02/2017
... one of the largest private foundations in the United States , today announced that Mr. Robert T. Kelly, Jr., who ...
New York Life Foundation, Afterschool Alliance Award $750K in Grants to Middle School Out-of-School Time
Release Date:
06/21/2017
... "Aim High" initiative. The Aim High grant recipients are receiving support for their outstanding work helping ... school students reach ninth grade on time. Recipients are all afterschool, summer and...
Casey Family Programs Report Finds NYC ACS Leader in Child Safety Practices
Release Date:
07/10/2017
Casey found that ACS was performing well on a number of counts, particularly its data collection and utilization practices — an area where the report called ACS “a national model.”
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Supports Exhibition of Contemporary Women Abstractionists
Release Date:
08/25/2017
... the work of seven artists who hail from across the United States . The works defamiliarize common imagery, precluding ... a century ago. The methods of the exhibition’s artists are nuanced, time-intensive, and...
As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored
Release Date:
08/29/2017
As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored As Texas mobilizes in response to the ... government response to Sandy. "As horrifying as the images are coming out of Texas, it's more...
Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools
Release Date:
08/29/2017
In the Capital Region's three major cities, school districts continue to see stubborn disparities between black and Hispanic students and their white and Asian peers when it comes to reading and math.
Audacious Philanthropy
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United States . Establishing a universal 911 service. Securing the ... the scale of their ambition, along with the wealth they are willing to give back to society, is...
Newman's Own Pops The Champagne - Salad Dressing - That Is
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... Newman’s Own distributed $837,000 to 30 charities in 10 states through the sale of that dressing in its first year. ... been supported over more than three decades. The grants are part of the approximately $30...
Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... and employers, this is an embarrassment. The United States has spent far too long languishing at the bottom of ...
Opinion: Congestion Pricing Won't Solve New York's Transportation Woes
Release Date:
09/06/2017
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent vague interest in congestion pricing as a solution to problems at the MTA may give new life to one of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s key policy goals, but absent transportation improvements officials could be making...
A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... ideas of Islam as foreign and dangerous. And all of them are connected by an invisible thread: Pillars Fund. The ... began giving solely to nonprofit groups in the United States — no mosques, no overseas...
Can Business Save The World from Climate Change?
Release Date:
09/06/2017
Can Business Save The World from Climate Change? "We are still in." On June 5, with these four words a group of ... earlier, but corporate America was not following suit. "We Are Still In"...
Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May Be The New Normal
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... of emergency. For Donald Trump, these twin megastorms are a source of awe. “Hurricane looks like largest ever ... posted of Harvey last week. But for many scientists they are a worrying sign of a “new normal”...
Will New Rockefeller Foundation President Break or Reinforce its Mold?
Release Date:
09/08/2017
Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, shared his vision for the New York-based foundation’s future, which includes the use of science and technology for inclusive growth and leveraging the foundation’s influence to create new public-...
Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... — the learning loss that often occurs when students are out of school for two months. It’s a serious problem. ...
Federal Judge Urges Trump Administration to Push Back DACA Deadline
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... undocumented immigrants to apply to stay in the United States under an Obama-era program that the White House ...
J.J. Watt's Hurricane Relief Fundraising Closes at More Than $37 Million
Release Date:
09/18/2017
It started as a relatively modest (well, relative to where it ended up) organizing of a charitable endeavor, born partially out of a kind heart and partially out of desperation when he couldn't be there to help in person. And in the end, it can be...
These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?
Release Date:
09/19/2017
These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It? The international ... U.S. out anyway, PayPal and Western Union countered “We are still in.” These corporate titans and at least 22...
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way ... 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a...