Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts
Release Date:
09/23/2015
... have already reached the 100 percent target; others do not expect to do so for several decades, but they are typically setting ...
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region
Release Date:
09/25/2015
... that a particular part of the brain is responsible for exactly that function. This isn’t just an everyday aspect of psychology; it ’s an every minute one. Think of your morning. When you hit the shower there...
An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation)
Release Date:
02/22/2016
... an outspoken leader in the food labor movement. It was not an obvious pairing. “Forked: A New Standard for American Dining,” paints a grim picture of the food ... Blue Smoke, has recently embraced this cause,...
Century Foundation Report Recommends Universal Child Allowance
Release Date:
03/17/2016
... allowance could change all that. The report, Doing More for Our Children , models ten policy scenarios, and reveals: ... effect of the current CTC. A child allowance of $2,500 for all children under age 6 (...
Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change
Release Date:
09/06/2016
... temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease if farmers do not adapt to new management or technology practices. ... Establishing new strategies is particularly difficult for sorghum farmers in West Africa...
Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap
Release Date:
10/21/2016
... data analytics have revolutionized the way many companies do business. Starbucks, for example, rolls out new beverages and chooses its store ... cities leveraging data in the same way to improve services...
Sloan Foundation Noted in Article on What Could Help Americans Work More Years
Release Date:
06/13/2017
... Columbia University’s 2017 Age Boom Academy program for journalists, Exploring Inequities in Health, Work and ... learned how difficult (if not impossible) that can be for many of them. But I also learned from...
Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
Release Date:
08/24/2017
... distributing life-changing products by having the poor pay for them. To attract customers, they usually start with mild ... these attempts fail to get the job done—as they often do —they revert to active...
New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers?
Release Date:
09/12/2017
New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers? In New York City’s breakneck effort to ... their impact on student achievement. “The question for us is, ‘How do we...
New Book, "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Carnegie Council Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us ... interpretation of what globalization—and resistance to it —is doing to our conscience and our...
State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... announcement by the Trump administration to slash funding for enrollment assistance and marketing of insurance policies ... them enroll in coverage is not only the right thing to do , it ’s the...
Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country
Release Date:
10/02/2017
Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country “Trust black women!” “Who do you serve? Who do you protect?” “Puerto Rico is part ... The two separate but closely-...
Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... social responsibility (CSR) that can result in high praise for a chief executive—or get them fired—according to new ... The study found that when CEOs choose to invest in CSR, it changes the likelihood they...
JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth
Release Date:
01/23/2018
... and businesses by doing what a bank is supposed to do : lending and investing. This long-term investment, which ... in several new U.S. markets, increase wages and benefits for hourly U.S. employees, make...
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Funds New Medical School Curriculum
Release Date:
05/01/2018
... “We are excited to be recognized by the Macy Foundation for the work we are doing,” said Heritage College, ...
Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record
Release Date:
01/12/2016
... Late Monday night, in a stunning development for a struggling business, that’s pretty close to what the ... publications, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly. com , reported that they would become. Philly...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions
Release Date:
09/19/2016
A short documentary series created by Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a behind- the-scenes look at how four cities are using temporary public art projects.
Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead
Release Date:
12/15/2016
... As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead For manifold reasons of background and ideology (and maybe some score-settling for the scuttling of his nomination 30 years ago as a federal .....
Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison
Release Date:
05/10/2016
... are cycled through the system face when they try to leave it behend. “In my experience, people go to prison and they ...
NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast
Release Date:
06/30/2017
... Podcast Rikers Island is known as a harsh place, but it can be particularly bad for women. In March, the New York Women’s Foundation and ...