Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth
Release Date:
08/25/2017
... was published in the journal Public Performance & Management Review. The study examined 998 nonprofits in the ...
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Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White
Release Date:
08/30/2017
The recent finding by The New York Times that black students are still vastly underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities is one sign of how little the country has managed to do to close racial gaps.
Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement
Release Date:
08/31/2017
Groundswell, a Brooklyn-based community arts nonprofit, partners with local youth and community stakeholders to turn public walls – in NYCHA developments and elsewhere – into public works of art.
The New York Times Is Looking for Nonprofit Funding. Will It Succeed Where Others Have Failed?
Release Date:
09/05/2017
"Fractured Lands," a prodigious New York Times Magazine piece last year on the chaos in the Middle East, was an inadvertent window onto a fractured business model. It was thus relevant that Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph...
BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity
Release Date:
09/06/2017
After a fraught last few years in terms of national attention to issues of race, one would expect that nonprofit boards would demonstrate at least a modicum of advancement in the realm of diversity.
Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?
Release Date:
09/08/2017
How policy labs can foster greater collaboration and policy co-creation.
NYS Health Foundation Unveils Health Care Cost Transparency Website
Release Date:
09/12/2017
NYS Health-funded website by FAIR Health offers easy-to-use, reliable information on health care costs, allowing consumers to plan financially for commonly performed health care services.
High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns
Release Date:
09/14/2017
When the corporate foundation at German engineering giant Siemens went looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant applications. Instead, it used a hot new format for foundations: a prize...
Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns
Release Date:
09/21/2017
Manhattan state Sen. Brad Hoylman has written a letter to state regulators expressing concern that the company purchasing Fidelis Care for $3.75 billion said it will try to continue a policy for at least a year of not providing contraceptive and...
LDN Fund Officially Launched
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... public money to raise private capital for sustainable land management and landscape restoration activities worldwide ...
How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... assets–by U.S. Trust, Bank of America’s private wealth management group, provides some answers. ... How ...
Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years
Release Date:
09/26/2017
The question now is whether more global health funders will turn their attention to helping spread these strategies of prevention to poorer countries.
New York Landlord Fined $500,000 in Tenant Harassment Probe
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... Schneiderman announced the settlement with Icon Realty Management after a multiagency Tenant Harassment Prevention ...
No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... seek to nurture students’ development in areas like self- management and responsible decisionmaking alongside ...
Citi Community Development Is Partner in NYC’s First Citywide Community Land Trust
Release Date:
10/25/2017
... and one-third professionals in real estate, property management , housing, finance or other backgrounds that are ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund
Release Date:
10/27/2017
The JDRF T1D Fund, a venture philanthropy fund focused on developing life-changing approaches to the prevention and treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D), has announced a $5 million commitment from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste
Release Date:
11/14/2017
Today, World Wildlife Fund and the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, unveil results from a set of projects demonstrating innovative strategies aimed at reducing food waste in the hotel...
Route Fifty Recognizes Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities at Second Annual Navigator Awards
Release Date:
11/17/2017
... Award recipient for demonstrable results in performance management , transparency, access to data and the adoption of ...
Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP
Release Date:
11/28/2017
Socially conscious investors can look forward to two new exchange-traded funds that aim to direct capital to companies that do well by minorities and women.
Jim Simons, the Numbers King
Release Date:
12/13/2017
Jim and Marilyn Simons became major charitable donors in the nineteen-nineties, when they launched their foundation. The Simons seeks to heighten the foundation’s impact on the sciences.