LDN Fund Officially Launched
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... instrument that we developed over the past three years through the Global Mechanism in close collaboration ...
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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... hundreds of social change initiatives over multiple years and interviewed social entrepreneurs, civil society ...
Zuckerberg May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to Fund Work in Education, Science, and Advocacy
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Mark Zuckerberg said he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, plan to sell 35 million to 75 million shares of Facebook stock in the next 18 months to pay for their work in education, science, and advocacy.
A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... occupied the land move to a new home in the Bronx. Four years later, the Willets Point development project is ...
Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change
Release Date:
09/26/2017
Since its launch earlier this year, the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education has recruited 125 health professions schools and programs around the world to ensure future health professionals are educated on the health impacts of climate...
How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers
Release Date:
09/27/2017
Obamacare repeal is dead, again. But the months of Republican attacks on the health law will still have consequences for some consumers.
Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... looks nothing like the factory floor. But during the seven years when she cared for him in 24-hour shifts, it felt like ...
Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... and while Johnson has been eager to send probes deeper for years , the funding hasn’t been there. Allen’s people ...
ASPCA Launches New Social Media Campaign
Release Date:
10/02/2017
ASPCA's new social media campaign "Find Your Fido", Aims to Get More Shelter Dogs Adopted
Student Sues Columbia Over ‘Deliberate Indifference’ to Harassment Claims
Release Date:
10/03/2017
In the latest allegation of sexual harassment by a high-profile academic, a prominent historian at Columbia University has been accused of forcing himself on a 29-year-old female doctoral student and disparaging her to colleagues when she rebuffed...
After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues
Release Date:
10/03/2017
On Monday, in a conversation about school safety with invited parent leaders from throughout the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Ms. Fariña emphasized that crime in schools was at its lowest level on record and said they were making investments in...
Many Young Adults With Autism Also Have Mental Health Issues
Release Date:
10/03/2017
Young adults on the autism spectrum are more likely to also have been diagnosed with a psychiatric condition, such as depression, anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than are typically developing people or those with other...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Our Compelling Interests
Release Date:
10/03/2017
In this video, Our Compelling Interests series co-editors Nancy Cantor and Earl Lewis ask: What is at stake if America does not embrace diversity?
Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria
Release Date:
10/05/2017
Two new strategies show promise in battling malaria, a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, mostly children ages five and under in sub-Saharan Africa.Both new strategies involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria...
NADA to Launch Acquisition Gift Fund for Pérez Art Museum Miami
Release Date:
10/05/2017
With the Bass Museum of Art reopening this month and the Institute of Contemporary Art putting the finishing touches on its new permanent home, this season is a big one for the Miami museum world, and this December, an art fair has a plan to help an...
No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... determine whether their schools are successful. Nearly two years later, not a single state’s plan to comply with the ...
Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students
Release Date:
10/06/2017
Traveling south about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania Route 43, visitors roll into Coal Center, home to Intermediate Unit 1, a regional education service agency. Intermediate Unit 1 also serves as home to a Fab Lab — a highly...
Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... But ever since a century-old bridge nearby closed several years ago, crossing the river by car here can take up to 10 ...
Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico
Release Date:
11/16/2017
Three major U.S.-based foundations on Wednesday pledged an initial $5 million to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria, including the creation of an advisory commission to help guide reconstruction efforts.
SeaChange Capital Partners Co-Authors Report Highlighting Challenges Faced By Non-Profits In Philadelphia
Release Date:
11/27/2017
... exceeded $16 billion in 2014, $5 billion more than seven years before (a 27 percent increase, even after adjusting for ...