Site Search

The New York Community Trust

Funding Area

Arts

Related Organizations

Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Spark Prize to Honor Nonprofit Changemakers

Release Date:

04/20/2016

... of its kind celebrating changemakers in the borough’ s thriving nonprofit sector. Five organizations will each ... and neighborhood leaders hailing from Brooklyn. Brooklyn is home to over 2,...

Find More By

News type

RFPs Etc

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Brooklyn Org

Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

Release Date:

04/25/2016

... in Paris in November-December 2015 was approved. Norway’ s sovereign wealth fund has pulled out of scores of companies for being over -reliant on fossil fuel, and the Rockefeller Foundation ...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Rockefeller Foundation

Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors

Release Date:

05/11/2016

... developments in homelessness, the roll-out of the mayor' s affordable housing plan and key decisions by Albany ... and real-estate tax breaks. Our housing coverage over the past year has been supported by...

Find More By

News type

The New York Community Trust

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

Related Organizations

Charles H. Revson Foundation

Sage Foundation Research Indicates Americans May Not Be Ready for Tax Increase on Wealthy

Release Date:

05/11/2016

... Be Ready for Tax Increase on Wealthy Economic inequality is high and rising. At the same time, many governments are ... while maintaining spending for popular programs. That’ s prompted some presidential...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Economic Security

Related Organizations

Russell Sage Foundation

F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century

Release Date:

06/08/2016

F.B. Heron Foundation' s Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century For over fifty years, the global economy (and that includes the ... of value-add products and, therefore, city...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

F.B. Heron Foundation

As 12 Early Community Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’s Long-term Commitment

Release Date:

06/17/2016

... Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’ s Long-term Commitment In New York City, an unexpected fight ... programs, tutoring, and student health services over the last three years. The city has not...

Find More By

Funding Area

Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Release Date:

07/05/2016

Ford’ s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come ... gone so far as to issue this brave statement about...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation's Chris Cardona on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion

Release Date:

07/29/2016

Ford Foundation' s Chris Cardona on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion I wish I ... receive—after all, they know better than anyone what is happening on the ground. So why doesn’t it happen more ... post and which...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

Release Date:

08/26/2016

... aides will participate in executive training programs over the next four years. The initiative also will establish ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Appointments & Transitions

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Suzette Hunte Joins United Way of New York City as Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

Release Date:

09/08/2016

... design, coordination and implementation of the President' s initiatives, both internally and externally, at UWNYC. A ... management expert and technical assistance provider with over 12 years of...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

United Way of New York City

Related Organizations

Ms. Foundation for Women Will Join SheKnows Media for the Sept. 26 Panel on Next-Generation #Femvertising

Release Date:

09/21/2016

... #Femvertising SheKnows Media, a leading women' s media company with 81 million unique visitors a month* and ... target women. Responses were compared to SheKnows Media’ s original #Femvertising study,...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Related Organizations

Ms. Foundation for Women

Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

Release Date:

09/28/2016

... proteins. Nearly 80 percent of the rest of the genome is transcribed into RNA that does not code for proteins. Two ... scientists are: How much of this “non-coding” RNA is actually functional? And does it play...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Science

Related Organizations

The Simons Foundation

Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

Release Date:

11/22/2016

... Exxon Mobil on Climate Change Exxon Mobil, under fire over its past efforts to undercut climate science, is accusing the Rockefeller family of masterminding a ... to pay surrogates to deny the threat of...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Rockefeller Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

Release Date:

12/13/2016

... at colleges and universities with high graduation rates is being announced today in an attempt to have more students ... is being coordinated by the nonprofit Aspen Institute’ s College...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration

Release Date:

12/13/2016

... state Supreme Court ruling and an edict from New Jersey’ s education commissioner to force the merger of Morristown ... New Brunswick, Plainfield and elsewhere have failed. What is the secret sauce? An...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

Release Date:

01/04/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In ... culturally rich neighborhood in the heart of Brooklyn that is too often defined by one fateful week in 1992 when racial...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

Brooklyn Org

Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

Release Date:

01/06/2017

Bloomberg' s Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick ... the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world’ s first public health treaty, little financial or technical ... later,...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition

Release Date:

01/10/2017

... and scholarship opportunities to some of the university' s most civically minded undergraduates. The award marks the completion of Atlantic' s grant-making, totaling $8 billion over...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

The Atlantic Philanthropies

Related Organizations

Catholic Charities Announces $800,000 Grant from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Release Date:

01/31/2017

... today that the agency will receive a grant of $800,000 over two years from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg ... Weinberg Foundation noted that Catholic Charities' mission is aligned with the goal of...

Find More By

News type