The proposal to repeal the credit, which encourages businesses to hire students earning minimum wage, is part of a push by the Dems to accelerate the phase-in of the $9-an-hour minimum wage.
Philanthropy New York Senior Vice President of Public Policy & Communications Michael Hamill Remaley talks about PNY's upcoming new website and more in an interview with The Communications Network.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he will build on Michael Bloomberg's and the Open Society Foundations' Young Men's Initiative supporting black and Latino men, reported The New York Observer.
Goldman Sachs and five other supporters will invest $18 million in a Massachusetts program to reduce recidivism among ex-convicts, the biggest "pay for success" project in the U.S., reported The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin offered suggestions to Mayor de Blasio to make the city more resilient and ready to withstand another disaster on MetroFocus Thirteen.
Several business executives, including Lee Wasserman, Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, have signed on to Mayor de Blasio's plan to raise taxes to fund citywide pre-K and after-school programs, reported Crain's New York Business.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that Bloomberg Philanthropies will turn its Cities of Service program into a stand-alone nonprofit that will help mayors across the U.S. tackle challenges via volunteer efforts.
The Educational Foundation of America and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation are among the 17 foundations who have vowed to divest the fossil fuel stocks in their endowments and invest at least five percent of their assets in clean-energy companies,...
The Foundation Center announced the appointment of new staff positions that will strengthen its ability to meet the changing needs of the social sector.
Environmental expert Arturo Garcia-Costas has joined The New York Community Trust as Program Officer for national and New York City environmental grantmaking.
Emmy Award-winning director Stanley Nelson examines an often overlooked but essential chapter in the Civil Rights Movement: the 1964 interracial Freedom Summer campaign.