Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel
Release Date:
11/29/2016
... has been selected under a $773,761 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. ...
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NY Women's Foundation Co-Hosts Training on Healthy Manhood and Preventing Violence Against Women
Release Date:
12/07/2016
... New York Women's Foundation and led by A CALL TO MEN, a national violence prevention organization... NY Women's .....
Inside Pinkerton, a Low Profile Anti-Poverty Foundation
Release Date:
12/21/2016
What's in a name? Well, the Pinkerton Foundation in New York City draws its name from what was once the nation's oldest and largest security company.
Shatterproof Awarded $600,000 Grant by Helmsley Charitable Trust
Release Date:
01/31/2017
... by Helmsley Charitable Trust Shatterproof, the leading national nonprofit working to reduce the devastation of ...
Commonwealth Fund President Writes About Keeping Perspective During Turbulent Times
Release Date:
02/07/2017
At times of dramatic change in a nation’s history, fear and anxiety can become pervasive and overwhelming. Troubling visions of authoritarianism or chaos, of political persecution, and even civil war disturb our waking thoughts and nightly dreams.
A Closer Look at NY Fund for Women and Girls, Co-Founded by NoVo and New York Women’s Foundation
Release Date:
02/09/2017
The NYC Fund for Girls and Women of Color brings together 16 funders. This collaboration isn’t brand new, but it’s the first fund of its kind in the nation and is worth watching closely, especially for how it makes grants.
Foundation for Child Development Sponsors Study that Finds Children Learning English Require Better Support for Academic Success
Release Date:
03/01/2017
... appropriate grade level, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. ...
Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation
Release Date:
02/22/2017
A recent $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship that helps the nation better understand and address its legacies of slavery, racism and discrimination.
Ford's Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The Soul Of The Country’ and Are Worth Fighting For
Release Date:
03/21/2017
... Arts Advocacy Day sponsored by Americans for the Arts, a national organization devoted to supporting nonprofit arts... ...
PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem
Release Date:
04/18/2017
One of the PIMCO Foundation’s philanthropic focus areas is gender equality, which coincides with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”
Gay Rights Group Turns Down Bank of America’s Money Over HB2 Compromise
Release Date:
05/09/2017
The nation’s largest gay rights group plans to reject $325,000 in Bank of America sponsorships to protest the role bank executives played in brokering a replacement for North Carolina’s House Bill 2 - known as "the bathroom bill."
Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island
Release Date:
05/15/2017
... Island About 18 months ago, there seemed to be a growing national consensus about the imperative of criminal-justice ...
"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies
Release Date:
05/16/2017
The demonization of the American-Hungarian billionaire and Holocaust survivor has spread from Hungary and Moscow across Europe and into the United States, with the 86-year-old increasingly accused by nationalists of using his money to force his...
Bloomberg, NYS Fund a 9/11 Rescue, Recovery Workers Memorial
Release Date:
05/31/2017
... of honor. The announcement was made Tuesday at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum by New York Gov. ...
Century Foundation: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Worth Saving
Release Date:
06/15/2017
Is the renewed focus on the manufacturing sector sound economic policy, or as pundits from across the political spectrum have complained, is it just a nostalgic bid for middle-class jobs that are gone for good?
Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time
Release Date:
07/13/2017
A new report from the Urban Institute tells much of the reason why the nation’s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in recent years: Prisoners sentenced to long terms under laws passed in previous decades still are locked up, and...
Helmsley Funds Research Collaborative around Type 1 Diabetes
Release Date:
08/18/2017
... HIRN is a research collaborative launched in 2014 by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney ...
How to Build a Strong Local Food System
Release Date:
08/29/2017
It goes beyond farmers' markets and CSA shares. Before we had ‘local food,’ we just had food. Communities fed themselves with whatever was produced in the region, with farmers selling directly to stores and customers. It was unheard of to truck...
Transgender Students Find Open Door at More Women's Colleges
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Ninotska Love will become one of the first transgender women to attend Wellesley in the school's 147-year history.
USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...