The Case for Giving Cash to Poor Kids
Release Date:
08/25/2014
... otherwise. For example, in a drug-screening in Utah only 2. 5 percent of welfare recipients came up positive, in ...
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Exchanges, Exchanges Everywhere: Understanding the Role of Private Exchanges
Release Date:
02/06/2014
Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal explains the new rise in private health insurance exchanges and how they relate to the Affordable Care Act.
Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay Attention to Fracking
Release Date:
05/16/2013
... summary by the National Resources Defense Council . 5 ) It’s eroding homeowner’s rights too . In order to gain ...
Artists at the Center: A New Doris Duke Initiative
Release Date:
12/21/2012
By Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has supported artists in jazz, contemporary dance and theatre in creating, producing and touring...
Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City
Release Date:
11/08/2013
By Abby Youngblood, Food and Environment Program Officer, North Star Fund and Coordinator, Community Food Funders New York City communities face myriad challenges related to our health, economic vitality and social and ecological...
The Sky Really is Falling…Now What? A New Working Group for Funders
Release Date:
04/03/2012
By Liz Sak, Executive Director, Cricket Island Foundation When the financial crisis hit, foundations endowments were hit hard. We all knew the recovery would take time, we just didn’t know how long. According to recently released...
Spend Out vs. Perpetuity: Raising the Question
Release Date:
08/05/2009
Nearly two months ago, the Beldon Fund closed its doors, completing the ten-year intentional spend out envisioned by our chair and donor John Hunting.
JPMorgan Report: Good, Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women
Release Date:
03/24/2016
... as much as $102,000 per year, according to a new report ( PDF ) by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). ... increase by over 50 percent, and for all women workers by 5 percent. Female packaging...
Three Ways the Arts are Advancing Equity in NYC
Release Date:
04/06/2016
New York Community Trust Program Associate Salem Tsegaye says the arts can help sustain a vibrant, more equitable New York.
Philanthropy Must Shift Power to Others
Release Date:
05/06/2016
Jennifer and Peter Buffett, Co-Presidents of the NoVo Foundation, say a philanthropist from on high will never reach down and “empower” a girl in Sierra Leone.
These Leaders Are Rallying to Stop New NY Taxes on Tax-Exempt Nonprofits
Release Date:
08/22/2018
If you’ve worked in philanthropy for a little while, you probably already know many of the local leaders who fly the flag on behalf of New York’s nonprofit sector, but you might not be as familiar with the big issue they are working on right now –...
New York City Contract Delays: The Facts
Release Date:
09/06/2018
... burdens over $1 million, 57 over $2.0 million and 17 over $ 5 million. Eleven organizations faced total burdens of over ...
Now Hear This: The Wisdom of Trans Voices
Release Date:
09/19/2018
More and more funders are devoting serious time and resources to increasing equity and inclusion in their work and to ensuring it is intellectually informed or, more progressively, driven by the people their grantmaking purports to help. If you are...
Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans - New Report by The Century Foundation
Release Date:
12/19/2019
... among African Americans was 9.7 percent, while it was just 5 .4 percent among whites. 5 African Americans were more likely to be covered through ... of uninsured and underinsured unacceptably high: of the 27...
To Get a Railroad Project Moving Long Islanders Had to Pull Together
Release Date:
06/23/2020
... permanent jobs, raise the gross regional product by $ 5 .6 billion, and boost tax revenues $143 million a year. A ...
Can Flexible Funding Become Our New Normal?
Release Date:
07/15/2020
... an organization and to achieve results. Grant terms of 5 -7 years should become the new standard. Long-term general ...
One Year Later: Food Scarcity in New York State During the COVID-19 Pandemic - New Report from the NYS Health Foundation
Release Date:
03/03/2021
... to assessing food scarcity issues. USDA reported that 10. 5 % of households in New York State surveyed between 2016 and ...
The Rockefeller Foundation Releases New Action Plan for Gathering and Sharing Information on SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Variants and Other Pathogens
Release Date:
03/08/2021
Plan to Accelerate Development of a National System for Gathering and Sharing Information on SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Variants and Other Pathogens
Laureus USA Releases New Research Study: Youth Sports Promote Social & Emotional Learning, Especially Among Men of Color
Release Date:
02/03/2021
Research demonstrates sports-based youth development programs foster significantly more social and emotional learning than non-sport after school programs
If We Want to Strengthen Democracy, Let's Start in Our Back Yard
Release Date:
04/14/2021
As New York City heads into its most consequential local elections in a generation, we face a decades-long decline in democratic participation.