Gap Inc. Announces Commitment To Advance The Lives Of One Million Women
Release Date:
09/28/2015
... world. Additionally, P.A.C.E. will broaden into a suite of learning programs with new curriculum to reach adolescent ...
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Wallace Foundation Supports New Professional Standards For School Leaders
Release Date:
10/26/2015
... which supports coverage of leadership and expanded learning time at Education Week. . . Wallace Foundation ...
Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’
Release Date:
12/03/2015
Farms are being built at public housing sites to grow produce for communities with limited access to healthy food.
Tow Foundation Announces Six Playwright Residencies
Release Date:
02/25/2016
The Tow Foundation-supported residency will give six emerging playwrights creative homes at theatres in New York City.
NoVo and Ms. Foundations Support Grantmakers for Girls of Color Funders Convening
Release Date:
03/02/2016
The Grantmakers for Girls of Color Convening Planning Committee, suppported by the NoVo and Ms. Foundations, will host a national convening of funders to begin an exploration of the challenges facing girls and young women of color and to create a...
Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation
Release Date:
03/16/2016
Strong principals are critical components of successful schools, and Wallace Foundation will be investing millions of dollars in research into what makes a principal effective.
Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post
Release Date:
03/22/2016
Baz Dreisinger’s intriguing new book, “Incarceration Nations,” describes countries where prisons are small, typically housing fewer than 50 people and some fewer than 10, and prisoners are close to their families and communities. This begs the...
Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change
Release Date:
04/21/2016
In Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change, Derrick Feldmann adeptly dissects many of the social movements we've become familiar with.
Citi Foundation Gives $20M to Accelerate Economic Opportunity in Six U.S. Cities
Release Date:
05/18/2016
Forty nonprofit organizations will use funds to address urban challenges ranging from affordable housing to environmental sustainability and infrastructure.
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices
Publication date:
09/2016
For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their strategy, culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they share what they have learned
Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary
Release Date:
11/01/2016
Globetrotting chef Anthony Bourdain will be adding to his frequent flier miles, as he takes on the issue of food waste around the world in a new documentary.
Seven Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' Innovation Teams Program
Release Date:
01/17/2017
Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced grants to seven cities to help them boost their capacity to tackle major challenges through innovation and improve quality of life for their residents.
With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It
Release Date:
03/09/2017
For decades, New Orleans fought to keep water out of the city. In the city's new resilience district, with projects that will break ground later in 2017, the goal is to let water in—which paradoxically can reduce flooding.
Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding
Release Date:
03/17/2017
Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.
Violence Against Women Is Not Only a Local Issue
Release Date:
03/22/2017
... Women Is Not Only a Local Issue By Bintou Sankareh, Learning Services Associate & Hunter College Public Service ...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival
Release Date:
03/28/2017
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has not only adopted the red knot bird as a poetic symbol of the modern plight of migrants and refugees; it is sending a few of its affiliated poets to the film’s showing in Princeton.
Complete This Survey on Foundation Openness and Shared Insights
Release Date:
04/19/2017
... understand the current state of the field around openness, learning from failure, using feedback effectively and ...
Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’
Release Date:
06/13/2017
In a new paper published in Nature Communications , scientists have uncovered the complex and remarkably different behavior arising in a liquid crystal drop that is drying.
Markle Foundation and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate a Skills-Based Labor Market for the Digital Economy
Release Date:
06/29/2017
... digital skills training for individuals, as well as learning tools for coaches, educators and employers. ...
The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion
Release Date:
07/28/2017
The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation funds $150,000 pilot to pair Baltimore police officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the throes of a mental health crisis in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from...