Education
July 22, 2015 at 1:18 pm
Twenty-five years ago, Teach For America was just Wendy Kopp’s undergraduate project. Today, it is a pillar of the effort to radically change American education with a huge national footprint. From 384 corps members touching the lives of 20,000 public school students in 1990, it has grown to 10,471 corps members teaching 600,000 students in…
July 9, 2015 at 2:55 pm
I’m writing this article earlier in the week than usual because I am heading out of town for a few days. No, it’s not vacation—it’s continuing education. Like you, I don’t have time to attend training. I don’t have money to waste on training that doesn’t teach me anything new. And yes, I admit my main incentive for signing up for this training was the tri-annual renewal of my CFRE credentials...
June 25, 2015 at 1:47 pm
As a part of its continued mission to transform the lives of southern Nevada students through arts and education, the Rogers Foundation, Las Vegas, has granted nearly $300,000 to two Clark County schools and one community organization. On June 2, grant presentations were made to the winners of the inaugural grants distributed by The Rogers…
June 22, 2015 at 1:19 pm
USC President C. L. Max Nikias was 1,400 miles from the Los Angeles campus, but he knew just how to appeal to his audience. In a swanky hotel ballroom, he told the crowd of alumni and donors that Texas had become the largest feeder of students to USC after California, and that students from their…
June 19, 2015 at 1:33 pm
City Year, an education-focused nonprofit organization that helps students to stay in school and on track to graduation, announced that it will standardize and scale its after-school middle school program with the support of a three-year $2.5 million grant from New York Life Foundation. “We are grateful and proud to welcome New York Life as…
June 17, 2015 at 1:13 pm
Cornell Tech, the applied sciences graduate school of Cornell University, is expected to announce a $100 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
June 12, 2015 at 1:53 pm
The Vatican suspended an agreement to receive a donation from the Copa America soccer tournament after FIFA was hit by a corruption investigation that implicated organizers of the event. Scholas Occurrentes, an educational organization created by Pope Francis in 2013 to promote social integration through sports, put on hold an accord it reached in April…
June 10, 2015 at 2:04 pm
Revlon donated $1 million to the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, in honor of UCLA women’s cancer researcher Dennis Slamon, Revlon’s CEO Lorenzo Delpani announced in a press release Friday. The money will fund research for potential new therapies and treatments for triple-negative breast cancer as well as ovarian cancer, Slamon said in a statement.…
June 9, 2015 at 1:47 pm
An anonymous donor has awarded $45,000 to the American Red Cross to sponsor swimming classes for 750 Jersey City children, plus scholarships for training lifeguards and swimming instructors. "The Red Cross recognizes the importance of water safety," said Mathieu Nelessen, CEO of the Red Cross' North Jersey region. "Whether you are at a pool or…
June 8, 2015 at 2:12 pm
The University of Southern California has announced a $25 million gift from alumnus and trustee Rick J. Caruso and his wife, Tina, to endow its department of otolaryngology's division of head and neck surgery. The newly renamed USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery serves patients facing a range…
