How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... nonprofit he led was on the verge of bankruptcy. Over the years , the organization had thrived as a government provider, ...
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Family of Boy Who Wears Dresses Sues Education Department
Release Date:
08/30/2017
Leo’s parents, Danielle Super and Michael Davis, filed a lawsuit last week with the New York City Commission on Human Rights that says Public School 107 in Park Slope created a hostile environment for their son, in violation of his rights.
James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... key members of the artistic community out here.” Now, 70 years after that first summer, a large collection of works by ...
The New York Times Is Looking for Nonprofit Funding. Will It Succeed Where Others Have Failed?
Release Date:
09/05/2017
"Fractured Lands," a prodigious New York Times Magazine piece last year on the chaos in the Middle East, was an inadvertent window onto a fractured business model. It was thus relevant that Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph...
Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week
Release Date:
09/06/2017
Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin next week installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four-year-old bike-share...
Yes, It Can Be Done: A Philanthropist on Transforming Rural Communities Through the Arts
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... rural communities through the arts. Over the next five years , the foundation plans to inject $20 million—in ...
Raising Money from the Modern Family
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... assignment not as promised, but dinnergoers’ class years , written on name tags, were unreadable, making it ...
BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... in combination with BoardSource. After a fraught last few years in terms of national attention to issues of race, one ...
A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... mitigating campus sexual assault, a hallmark of the Obama years . BuzzFeed had also reported that the department’s top ...
Third Wave is Blazing New Trails for Gender Justice
Release Date:
09/08/2017
To support nonprofits that reflect the communities they serve, Third Wave has recently launched the Own Our Power Fund and will be announcing their first round of grantees this fall.
Declaration Of Principles Across Hockey Takes NHL Where Other Pro Leagues Ought To Go
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... Principles are an outgrowth of a process that began a few years ago, when NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly tasked Pat ...
Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job
Release Date:
09/11/2017
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration quietly announced a policy reversal: In the coming year, schools will once again be forced to hire teachers that no other school has wanted to hire.
Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... tackle segregation on a district-wide basis, and follows years of lobbying by parent advocates in District 1, which ...
Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... Island, marking the start of operations there almost seven years after then Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent universities ...
Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... our own backyard and we must take steps to upend it. For years , activist groups around New York City have been doing ...
Women Lose Ground In The New York City Council, Even If Chin And Ayala Win
Release Date:
09/14/2017
A day after the primary election, two women are holding on to razor-thin leads for New York City Council seats. But even if they both survive, next year’s City Council will have fewer women, down from 13 seats to 12 in the 51-member body.
Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The author and journalist’s new book explains how antibiotics overuse helped chicken ascend from a local delicacy to an everyday protein, with serious health consequences as a result.
High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns
Release Date:
09/14/2017
When the corporate foundation at German engineering giant Siemens went looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant applications. Instead, it used a hot new format for foundations: a prize...
Data-Driven Gender Equality
Release Date:
09/15/2017
Closing the gender gap in agriculture, meanwhile, could have an even more profound impact on families and productivity in the developing world.
Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... and doctors have come under intense scrutiny in recent years , but the role that insurers — and the pharmacy ...