Shamira Lukomwa
Shamira Lukomwa comes to PNY with rich experiences from the private, public and social impact sectors across ... Shamira holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Columbia University’s School of...
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Camille Kramer Joins the Tow Foundation
Release Date:
03/01/2013
... Director, Emily Tow Jackson, and comes to the foundation from a corporate background where she has supported senior ... of Bridgeport. While she earned her graduate degree from Fairfield University, as a...
Make Music New York To Present Record-Setting 1,350 Shows
Release Date:
06/18/2014
... the sound of music Saturday, June 21, thanks to support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Stavros Niarchos ... in primarily outdoor locations across the five boroughs from a range of genres: there’s...
Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment
Release Date:
07/10/2014
... Attainment Children whose mothers have not graduated from high school lag on economic, education and health ... children of better educated mothers, according to a report from the Foundation for Child...
Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College
Release Date:
10/28/2014
... As data has made clear how many top-performing students from poor and middle-class families fall through the cracks, ... a program to advise every college-qualified student from a modest background on the...
Rachel D. Pardoe Appointed NYCT Program Officer for Health and People with Special Needs
Release Date:
02/10/2015
... AIDS, and elder services. She came to The Trust from MDRC, a social policy evaluation firm, where she oversaw ... nonprofit leaders in New York City. Rachel has a B.A. from New York University in psychology...
NoVo Grant Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Fight Prostitution Charges
Release Date:
05/19/2015
... according to the FBI. The unit has received funding from the NoVo Foundation, a group that aims to advance girls’ rights and protect them from violence. It has also got additional probono assistance ...
Simons Foundation Among Backers of $28 Million Autism Treatment Study
Release Date:
07/29/2015
... treated. The Yale team will collect data in Connecticut from preschoolers and school-aged children affected by autism ... The data then will be evaluated along with data taken from four other locations: Duke...
Carnegie and American Library Association Seek Nominees for I Love My Librarian Award
Release Date:
07/31/2015
... by the American Library Association, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and the New York Times ... Nominees must be a librarian with a master's degree from an ALA-accredited program in...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Metropolitan Museum's Launch of Kid-Targeted Web Initiative
Release Date:
09/11/2015
... galleries-was created in collaboration with specialists from across the Museum including educators, curators, ... 125 featured objects, fun facts, and project ideas drawn from across the Met's collection...
What's Driving Variation in New York's Hospital Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation)
Release Date:
12/17/2015
... hospitals and insurers tend to hide this information from consumers (and researchers) because it is considered ... these researchers had access to a large data set of claims from private insurers across the...
Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions
Release Date:
01/19/2016
... to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking new report from Foresight Alliance, a Washington DC-based foresight consultancy. Supported by a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation, the report encapsulates a .....
Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos
Release Date:
01/21/2016
... Fight to Davos The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago ... waste around the world. The wide-ranging plan will stretch from thrown-out crops to excess food at...
NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust
Release Date:
04/13/2016
... through on those goals to achieve results, a new report from the National Committee for Responsive ... Impact? Trust grantee achievements include a commitment from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to remove minors...
NY Community Trust Announces Three Staff Promotions to Program Director
Release Date:
07/28/2016
... and staffing the NYC Cultural Agenda Fund. Michele comes from Dance/NYC where she served as equity and inclusion ... Global Fund for Women. Michele has a bachelor’s degree from Brown in development studies and...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities
Release Date:
12/13/2016
... being announced today in an attempt to have more students from modest backgrounds graduate from prestigious campuses seen as opening doors to top ... Initiative, aims to add 50,000 highly qualified students...
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Welcomes Lisa Cowan as Vice President of Programs
Release Date:
01/12/2017
... was the Principal Consultant at Hummingbird Consulting from 2013 - 2016. Lisa sits on the boards of Brooklyn ... served as the Board President of the Red Hook Initiative from 2005 - 2013. Lisa is a third-...
Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Featured in Study on Limited Life Foundations
Release Date:
03/22/2017
... is the key driver for the decision to spend down, a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds. Based ... foundations, the report, A Date Certain: Lessons From Limited Life Foundations (50 pages,...
The Army Infantry’s First Women
Release Date:
05/26/2017
... and revolutionary. The first group of women graduated from United States Army infantry training last week, but ... to distinguish the mixed-gender squads in the steamy woods from those of earlier generations...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... housing initiatives. Community development funding from a bank isn’t the flashiest of grants. But this funding ... housing, or how prosperous a neighborhood will be a decade from now. To be sure, the big banks...