Site Search

- resource provided by the Forum Network Knowledgebase.
Search Tip: Search with " " to find exact matches.

PNY's President Gives Insight on Funder Collaboration

Release Date:

09/08/2015

... While the emphasis on legacy is no less important — it may be even more important for private foundations — they also don’t have the same ... beneficial to private foundations, if they find a way to do...

Find More By

News type

PNY News

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 ...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

Related Organizations

Johnson & Johnson

Goldman Sachs

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...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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,...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Economic Security

Food Systems

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

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 (...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

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...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

Food Systems

Related Organizations

The Rockefeller Foundation

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...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Aging

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Corporate Social Responsibility

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...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Education

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...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

International/Foreign Affairs

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Related Organizations

Carnegie Corporation of New York

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...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Health

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-...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Gender Justice

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...

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Corporate Social Responsibility

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...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Economic Security

Related Organizations

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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, ...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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...

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Communications/Media

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Related Organizations

The Tow Foundation

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.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Arts

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

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 .....

Find More By

Funding Area

Justice Reform

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 ...

Find More By

News type

PhilTalks

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Search form

You are here

Site Search

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Pages