CR2PI at The New York Women’s Foundation Joins $18 Million “Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research” Aimed at Improving the Lives of Women and Girls of Color New York, NY – The Center for Research and Policy in the Public Interest (CR2PI), at The New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF) will work with the “Collaborative to [...]
Question: If funding to support boys and men of color is a priority, with some two dozen foundations involved, why are women and girls of color not an equal priority? The fact is that few new philanthropic efforts are aimed specifically at improving the lives of girls and young women of color. This is one [...]
by Maya Chung and Natalie Johnson Thirty leaders from foundations across the U.S. gathered at The White House Friday for a daylong forum on "Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color." The forum focused on issues that plague women and girls of color and highlighted the launch of "Prosperity Together," a $100 million, 5-year [...]
--Dani McClain, reporter for the Nation Magazine covers the newly released report by the Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative (SRBWI) of the Children's Defense Fund and authored by the Center for Research and Policy in the Public Interest entitled Unequal Lives: The State of Black Women and Families in the Rural South The Groundbreaking report analyzes [...]
Lead the Way funded by American Express Philanthropies is a year-long fellowship hosted by the Center for Research and Policy in the Public Interest (CR2PI) at the New York Women’s Foundation for women of color mid-level managers and emerging Executive Directors working in U.S. based nonprofit and community-based organizations. To Learn more about the Fellowship [...]
#PowerHerList will host Google Hangout with major organizations focused on poverty and economic security. The gap between the richest and poorest Americans is widening. Half of all income in 2012 went to the top ten percent, and the U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates of any developed country. Women can hold down full [...]
The Women’s Funding Network report, entitled Learning, Leveraging and Giving for High Impact, aims to inform both current and future conversations regarding the long-term economic security of women and families. Specifically, it focuses on the promising practices and strategies employed by six leading women’s foundations, and provides a useful framework and approach to grant making [...]
Above Board: Raising the Standards for Passenger Service Workers at the Nation’s Busiest Airports written by CR2PI’s Executive Director, C. Nicole Mason helped to win a much needed wage increase for more than 8,000 low-wage airport workers at John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia Airports in New York City. The report carefully documents with stories from [...]
