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 ...
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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 ...
Aging Out of Foster Care Makes Eating Right a Challenge
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... a recent diagnosis of prediabetes, but, after several years in the foster care system, he did not know where to ...
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...
Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... but really, the central air was broken and has been for years . . . Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books ...
The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime
Release Date:
09/19/2017
New York City officials have announced that all 1.1 million public school students would be provided with a free daily lunch. This came a few months after state Senator Liz Krueger and state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill to address...
New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... to catalog the varied modes of doing the work. Several years ago, we were struck by the way some of our grantee ...
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... have together committed more than US$13 million over five years to kick-start the IBL. The pilot effort is an attempt ...
Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan created ...
Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns
Release Date:
09/21/2017
Manhattan state Sen. Brad Hoylman has written a letter to state regulators expressing concern that the company purchasing Fidelis Care for $3.75 billion said it will try to continue a policy for at least a year of not providing contraceptive and...