United Way of New York City Partners With Bank of America for Volunteer Day of Action
Release Date:
05/13/2015
One hundred volunteers assembled 2000 "Basics for Babies" kits.
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Michael Burke Joins New York Life Foundation as COO
Release Date:
06/22/2015
New York Life announced that Michael Burke has joined the company as chief operating officer, New York Life Foundation and corporate vice president in the Corporate Responsibility Department.
Do Corporate Grantmakers Care More About the Poor Than Other Foundations?
Release Date:
06/30/2015
Corporate foundations like JPMorgan Chase have increased giving to underserved communities by as much as 40 percent in the last decade.
Farms in the Projects? (Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund)
Release Date:
01/05/2016
Tisch Fund leaders write about an an innovative public-private partnership that brings agriculture, parks, farmers' markets and more to areas in need of good food, education and jobs.
When a Child Grieves, We All Should Help (New York Life Foundation)
Release Date:
01/08/2016
A staggering 1 in 7 people lose a parent or sibling by the time they are 20-years-old, according to a survey conducted by the New York Life Foundation in conjunction with Comfort Zone Camp.
Westchester Community Foundation Names Tara Seeley as New Program Officer
Release Date:
02/02/2016
The Westchester Community Foundation has appointed Tara Seeley as program officer. She was previously a program officer at the Central Indiana Community Foundation.
Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)
Release Date:
02/18/2016
... causes severe insomnia. Expression of the gene, neuromedin U (Nmu), also seems to serve as nature's stimulant--fish .....
TCC Group Unveils a New Foundation Core-Capacity Assessment Tool
Release Date:
03/14/2016
TCC Group launched a new tool, which is a free (for a limited time), online, statistically validated assessment measure that was developed to help foundations make sense of their institutional capacity strengths and challenges.
Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT)
A new Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT), an online, statistically validated assessment measure was developed by TCC Group to help foundations make sense of their institutional capacity strengths and challenges.
BNY Mellon and United Nations Foundation Publish Report for Advancing Gender Equality
Release Date:
01/26/2017
On Saturday, more than three million people around the country -- that's one out of every 100 Americans -- and upwards of another 250,000 people around the world marched in the name of gender equality.
The Systematic Starvation of Those Who Do Good
Release Date:
02/28/2017
Despite the importance of human services and other nonprofits to employees and those they serve, many nonprofit workers do not earn a living wage. We can do better.
Ford, Rockefeller Offer Templates for Guiding CEO Transitions at Big Foundations
Release Date:
03/07/2017
In a relatively short period of time, there have been some high-level changes at important philanthropy organizations, leading to questions of both why this is occurring, and what’s involved today with managing a CEO or president transition at a...
Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President
Release Date:
03/08/2017
Erica Dunbar, who grew up in Philadelphia, is one of the more than 700 Mellon Mays PhDs who are not only helping to diversify university faculty in the United States, but who are also contributing groundbreaking scholarship and rising to the highest...
Nicky McIntyre Begins Tenure as CEO of Foundation for a Just Society
Release Date:
07/03/2017
Nicky McIntyre joins FJS after ten years as the executive director of Mama Cash in the Netherlands, where she oversaw one of the world’s largest public funds that supports the rights of women, girls, and transgender people around the world and was a...
Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published
Release Date:
07/26/2017
... early education and related programs. – across the U .S., in New York, and other nations. The research was ... of a child’s life. Governments at all levels in the U .S. spend more than twice as much on a per-...
Macquarie Group and Its Employees Donate $100,000 To Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts
Release Date:
09/19/2017
Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, announced a $100,000 donation to the American Red Cross to aid in immediate relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey.
Century Foundation Releases Report on Estimating the Real Cost of Community College
Release Date:
10/24/2017
A group of researchers organized by the Century Foundation is looking to understand the real cost of community college.
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New York Foster Youth Funders Group – Fall Meeting
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
New York Foster Youth Funders Group is a peer network of grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of foster youth in New York. The purpose of the group is to keep our hand on the pulse of salient issues and initiatives impacting foster...
Michael J. Fox Foundation and Simons Foundation Making Waves in Basic Science
Release Date:
12/01/2017
Private funders are starting to support big projects, and they’re rewriting the playbook on fueling scientific research.
The New York Community Trust Awards $600K Grant for NYC Creative Aging Initiative
Release Date:
01/05/2018
... (DFTA), SU-CASA is the largest program of its kind in the U .S, operating in senior centers across 51 council districts ...