On average, U.S. adults spend nearly half a day interacting with media. And today, more than 269 billion emails are sent every day – an estimated 72 emails for each one of the 3.7 billion email users in the world. It’s no secret that people are...
The Funders Census Initiative is pleased to present a briefing on census messaging results in partnership with the Democracy Funders Collaborative Census Subgroup. This year, national field partners were funded to conduct get-out-the-count messaging...
Middle-income families are spending more of their incomes on health insurance as average premiums skyrocketed in 2017 after modest rate increases earlier this decade, The Commonwealth Fund found in a new report.
The Apollo Theater announced today that it is undertaking the initial phase of the iconic Theater’s transformation into the Apollo Performing Arts Center through two new theaters within the Victoria Theater Redevelopment Project at 233 West 125th...
The foundation’s Arts Program is funding South Arts, based in Atlanta, Ga., to launch Jazz Road, a national program designed to expand jazz artists’ touring to a wide range of communities. This landmark re-granting program, once launched, will be...
The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation is pleased to announce that Rini Banerjee will join the Foundation as its fourth president and first woman to lead the foundation. Banerjee’s appointment concludes an extensive nationwide search that began last...
The Funders Census Initiative is pleased to present the first three briefings on census messaging results in partnership with the Democracy Funders Collaborative Census Subgroup.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced that temporarily pauses submission of new grant requests for projects in Greece, “taking a step back in order to assess where we are and where we need to be going.”
In this Insights , Atlantic highlights the steps it took to address the challenges the foundation faced in navigating its path toward the end while seeking to accomplish ambitious programmatic goals: how limited life shaped investment, staffing,...
The Annual program will distribute $1.4 million to organizations for approximately $840,000 in grants for under-the-radar artist-driven projects across 14 cities/states.
The John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City has announced grants totaling more than $5.2 million in support of evidence-based approaches to better care for older adults who have dementia, need hospital care, experience elder mistreatment, or...
With history-making results from the Midterm Elections, join us for an important discussion on the lessons learned from 2018 that can help inform our work moving into 2019. After victories on a range of ballot initiative campaigns including voting...
How Do You Mobilize a Temporary Workforce of Half a Million People in Less Than Two Years? This question is the theme of the Census Funders Working Group’s first 2019 briefing. In 2010, the Census Bureau recruited, trained and deployed a temporary...