Foundation CEOs Need Candid Feedback to Succeed in Driving Change
Release Date:
09/02/2014
... Mr. Walker writes that he was "unready" to take on a " job for which one might assume I had been preparing for .....
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Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals
Release Date:
09/08/2014
Students and teachers are always being evaluated, but the principals that lead them should also be scrutinized. The Wallace Foundation has earmarked $75 million to create programs to recruit and train stronger principals.
Ford Foundation Works to Promote Government Action on Income Equality
Release Date:
11/18/2014
Ford Foundation created messaging to build public support for government anti-poverty action.
Giving Thanks for What's Right With Our Health System
Release Date:
11/26/2014
... sometimes joke that at least we'll never be out of a job , because there's always so much more that needs to be .....
Rauch Foundation Study Shows Lack of Housing Options in Long Island
Release Date:
01/09/2015
Rauch Foundation President, Nancy Rauch Douzinas, discusses result of Long Island Index study.
MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa
Release Date:
03/17/2015
The five-year, $25.9 million partnership with TechnoServe will provide jobs and training for 48,000 young people in Rwanda, Kenya Tanzania and Uganda.
New York Women's Foundation-Backed Report Sees Aging Immigrant Women as the 'Invisible Population'
Release Date:
07/08/2015
Older immigrant women, lacking retirement income and/or savings, usually keep working past retirement age or become family caretakers.
Citi Foundation and Technoserve Partner for Economic Opportunity in Africa
Release Date:
07/20/2015
... announced a partnership to stimulate entrepreneurship and job growth in four sub-Saharan countries. Citi Foundation’s ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Grantees Of $30 Million Arts Innovation And Management Program
Release Date:
09/16/2015
The invitation-only program, announced in April 2015, supports a diverse set of institutions including local cultural centers and performing, literary and visual art organizations.
New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits
Release Date:
10/28/2015
... your health care benefits when you got your first real job ? Now imagine trying to figure it out if all the ...
AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce
Release Date:
11/03/2015
Sara Link, President, AOL Charitable Foundation, will participate in a panel by the Global STEM Alliance (GSA) of the New York Academy of Sciences. Executives from AOL, ARM, Cisco, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, and US...
NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability
Release Date:
11/09/2015
Tiffany & Co. executive calls for brand owners and jewelry retailers to come together to establish a certification system that will assure responsible behavior when obtaining natural resources.
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.
New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education
Release Date:
12/07/2015
Well-targeted grants make a huge difference. It’s even more effective when a foundation like the New York Community Trust pools the gifts of generous neighbors, then joins other funders and government agencies to bring about change.
Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)
Release Date:
01/06/2016
... promising, especially supportive housing, which offers job training, debt counseling, mental health care, and other ...
Rockefeller, JPMorgan Chase Foundation Support 100,000 Opportunities Hiring Fair & Forum in LA
Release Date:
02/24/2016
... disconnected from school and employment – to meaningful job opportunities and resources. . . Rockefeller, JPMorgan ...
Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... blacks had just as good a chance as whites of getting a job . In retrospect, we can see that these white beliefs were ...
NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member
Release Date:
10/31/2016
... connection raised the question: Would Mr. Walker’s day job and his new board duties be working at cross-purposes? ...
An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools
Release Date:
12/22/2016
... elite schools that, by some measures, have done a terrible job of ensuring they are ladders of upward ...
Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature
Release Date:
02/17/2017
The extreme racial homogeneity in the rarefied realm of young math wizards has drawn little attention in a nation where racial equality in the basic institutions of civic life — schools, housing, health care, policing — remains elusive.