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Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... waste byproducts from prior industrial uses. The three sites are a parking lot at a bowling alley on Niagara Falls ... in various stages of investigation and cleanup efforts for the three properties when the...
Evaluating the Charitable Deduction and Proposed Reforms
Publication date:
06/2012
Many recent proposals for budget and tax reform would change the value of the charitable contribution deduction. This Urban Institute report provides context for policymakers who may be considering one or more of these ...
Occupy The Box
Release Date:
03/21/2012
Are there ways for all of us to tap into larger and more creative ways of ... thinking—and, instead of “thinking outside the box,” change the rules of the “box” we’re in? New York ... Maria Mottola discusses this...
Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families
Release Date:
06/25/2013
Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas describes the Work Supports Strategies (WSS) initiative — an Urban Institute-directed project to design, test and implement operating changes to public work support systems — and what WSS has taught funders...
Start a Giving Circle This Summer
Release Date:
06/15/2011
Dr. M. Starita Boyce Ansari, President and Chief Change Officer at MSBPhilanthropy Advisors LLC, talks about ...
Why Bring People Together In Person?
Release Date:
08/13/2013
... while talking about Gather, the new Rockefeller guide for planners and change agents interested in harnessing the potential of ...
Grants to Individuals: Investing in People and Their Communities
Publication date:
09/2008
... program, including developing a theory of change , using the right funding mechanism, and finding the ...
Century Foundation: A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN
Release Date:
02/11/2016
Century Foundation: A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN After much build-up, and ... of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with a successor agreement to the Kyoto...
Call for Nominations: Community Food Funders Champions Award
Release Date:
03/02/2017
Call for Nominations: Community Food Funders Champions Award The ... new award to recognize the leaders empowering food system change in our region. The Community Food Funders Champions Award will... Call ...
Good Charity, Bad Charity
Release Date:
08/10/2013
... Peter Singer on how to choose between different areas of philanthropy cites information from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. You are thinking of donating to a ... cause should you give? If you seek help...
Bank of America to Provide Clean Water and Opportunity in Southern India
Release Date:
03/24/2015
... innovative, community-led and market-based solutions that change lives through safe water and sanitation. The grant ... safe water and sanitation solutions, accelerating positive change in their homes and...
U.S. States, Rockefellers Clash With U.S. House Panel on Exxon Climate Probes
Release Date:
06/27/2016
... of Exxon Mobil Corp's (XOM.N) record on climate change , the attorney general of Massachusetts and investment ... go after Exxon to try and force action to tackle climate change ... U.S. States,...
Supported by Sloan, Rita Allen, New Understanding of Thirst Emerges from Brain Study
Release Date:
08/05/2016
... deactivating long before the liquids imbibed can actually change the composition of the bloodstream. The results stand ... of thirst regulation, which hold that the brain signals for drinking to stop when it...
Century Foundation Releases Report on Diversity in New York City’s Universal Pre-K Classrooms
Release Date:
09/20/2016
... Potter says, some simple policy changes could start to change all that... Century Foundation Releases Report on ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Reframes its Global Democratic Practice Grantmaking Portfolio
Release Date:
04/25/2017
... on issues of global governance in the areas of climate change , development finance, and trade. The assessment found that while securing systemic change in the institutions of global governance remains a ...
As U.N. Gathers, De Blasio Urges Fellow Mayors to Fight Trump on Climate, Immigration
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... speaking at two events highlighting the issues of climate change and immigration, taking both opportunities to ... the world’s biggest cities convening to address climate change . As U.N. Gathers, De Blasio...
Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff
Publication date:
06/2013
Center for Effective Philanthropy shares practical advice for building better working relationships with grantees, ... a positive impact. Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff ...
Atlantic Shows Support for Grassroots Organizing in Sandy-Affected Communities
Release Date:
03/05/2013
... shares the details of Atlantic’s recent support for the North Star Fund and the Alliance For A Just Rebuilding’s ongoing relief and recovery efforts ... the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Atlantic Shows Support...
What’s Strategy Got to Do With It?
Release Date:
08/27/2013
TCC Group Director of Philanthropy Chris Cardona analyzes a recent discussion about the role and value of strategic philanthropy for the Stanford Social Innovation Review. In a speech to the .....