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As part of his promise launch 100 community schools by 2018--including the first 40 in partnership with the United Way of New York City--Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday announced a 50-member advisory board to help implement the plan.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is giving $500,000 to the Shriver Corps, an initiative to train volunteers to help connect poor Americans with programs they may not know about but that could help lift them out of poverty.

As part of a group of funders making additional commitments to the White House's "My Brother's Keeper" initiative, Citi Foundation will provide $10 million over three years to underwrite volunteer programs in 10 cities designed to increase college...

Naomi Sobel of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice argues for increased support for smaller LGBTQ groups, especially ones serving communities of color.

The "community quarterback" model can be an effective approach to revitalizing troubled neighborhoods, write Nancy O. Andrews, president and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund, and Brandee McHale, COO at the Citi Foundation, in a post on the SSIR...

Two individuals with organizations supported by both the Rockefeller Foundation and the Surdna Foundation were named Tuesday by the White House as "Champions of Change" for their efforts to ensure that no American working 40 hours a week should have...

The William T. Grant Foundation has made $1.6 million in grants to improve the usefulness of research, $634,000 to support connections between education research and practice, and $205,000 to enhance the mentoring relationships of three foundation...

Citing efforts dating back to the 1960s, the president of the William E. Simon Foundation argues that major foundations--including Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller--have pursued "an obvious, politically liberal, ideological agenda" in the name of...