Site Search

Funding Area

Education

Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College

Release Date:

02/26/2016

Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College Most students attend college ... Shireman, offers specific recommendations for how the U. S . Department of...

Find More By

News type

Children, Youth and Families

Funding Area

Education

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated

Release Date:

09/26/2016

Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated ... electricity or other means may help to ease the symptoms of various neurological and psychiatric disorders, with the ... about...

Find More By

News type

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Building Community Capacity for Participation in Evaluation: Why It Matters and What Works

Publication date:

01/2013

... support sustainable solutions. Explore why it matters and what works through five recommendations. Building Community ... for Participation in Evaluation: Why It Matters and What Works ...

Find More By

Resource type

Report

What Inequality Deniers Have In Common With Climate Change Skeptics

Release Date:

06/16/2014

What Inequality Deniers Have In Common With Climate Change ... Walker says recent attempts to discredit Thomas Piketty' s research into income inequality remind him of earlier efforts to...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Economic Security

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

NY Community Trust Publishes Article on What Happens to a Bankrupt Nonprofit’s Assets

Release Date:

10/14/2016

NY Community Trust Publishes Article on What Happens to a Bankrupt Nonprofit’ s Assets Sometimes, charities face serious financial peril, ... Article on What Happens to a Bankrupt Nonprofit’...

Find More By

News type

Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Funding Area

Sixteen Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities Initiative

Release Date:

10/24/2016

Sixteen Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities Initiative The Bloomberg ... strategies. In an announcement released Monday, a total of 16 new cities—including Portland, Oregon, and Virginia...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

The Cricket Island Foundation

The Sky Really is Falling…Now What? A New Working Group for Funders

Release Date:

04/03/2012

On the heels of a new Foundation Center report on the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the field of social justice ... talks about a new working group for funders considering what...

Find More By

News type

Insights

Funding Area

Social Justice

Related Organizations

Philanthropy New York

The Goldilocks Approach to Nonprofit Board Size: What Is “Just Right”?

Release Date:

10/05/2017

The Goldilocks Approach to Nonprofit Board Size: What Is “Just Right”? Among many interesting findings in BoardSource’ s “Leading with Intent: 2017 National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices”...

Find More By

News type

Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Funding Area

Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want

Release Date:

12/01/2015

Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’ s What Older People Want We already know what older people want. A study from the National Conference of State Legislatures and...

Find More By

News type

The John A. Hartford Foundation

Funding Area

Aging

Health

Related Organizations

The Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Reaches 95 Participants With New Additions

Release Date:

11/01/2017

The Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Reaches 95 Participants With New Additions ... Florida; and Palmdale, California to its growing list of participants. The cities' entry into the program, which...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

Bloomberg’s What Works Cities Program Hits 100-City Goal

Release Date:

01/17/2018

Bloomberg’ s What Works Cities Program Hits 100-City Goal When it launched in April 2015, one of the goals of What Works Cities, the cross-sector .....

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

Release Date:

08/10/2015

What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social ... despite being hailed as a success by some. The concept of SIBs is for private investors to lend money to governments ...

Find More By

News type

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Related Organizations

Goldman Sachs

Carnegie Supports New Study on What Keeps Parents Up at Night

Release Date:

04/21/2016

Carnegie Supports New Study on What Keeps Parents Up at Night A national poll released today ... public school parents' perspectives on their children' s academic, emotional and physical wellbeing, and...

Find More By

News type

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

Trump Tax Plan May Free Up Corporate Dollars, but Then What?

Release Date:

08/31/2017

Trump Tax Plan May Free Up Corporate Dollars, but Then What ? The tax overhaul promised by President Trump and ... heavy load. The goal is not only to reduce the tax bills of corporations and small businesses, but...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Economic Security

U.S. Is Eliminating Its Arctic and Climate Envoys. What Message Does that Send?

Release Date:

08/31/2017

U. S . Is Eliminating Its Arctic and Climate Envoys. What Message Does that Send? As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson eliminates or shifts dozens of ...

Find More By

News type

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

College Activists March on the Cafeteria: What Do We Want? Hydroponic Cilantro!

Release Date:

09/07/2017

College Activists March on the Cafeteria: What Do We Want? Hydroponic Cilantro! Students returning to the University of Texas at Austin this fall will have twice as much help wrestling with some of...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Food Systems

The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.

Release Date:

09/20/2017

The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash. The United States ... rod for the fierce debate over the Obama administration’ s role in the Syrian civil war. The museum is...

Find More By

News type