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Interview with Catherine Koenen
August 2019
Catherine Koenen, executive director of the Gianforte Family Foundation, discusses entrepreneurship and how the foundation is creating opportunities in Montana.
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Creating Entrepreneurship Pathways for Opportunity YouthJune 2019
Early Experiences from the Youth Entrepreneurship Fund Grantees
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SHRM Getting Talent Back to Work ToolkitJune 2019
Information, guidance and tools needed to hire confidently from the formerly incarcerated labor pool and make an impact
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Interview with Deborah D. HooverMay 2019
The Philanthropy Roundtable sat down with Deborah D. Hoover, who has been president and CEO of Burton D. Morgan Foundation since 2007, to discuss its entrepreneurship initiatives.
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Burton D. Morgan Foundation pens chapter on entrepreneurship programs in new NACCE bookMarch 2019
A new book by the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship features a chapter by the Burton D Morgan Foundation describing entrepreneurship programs in SE Ohio.
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The Necessary Mindset for the Future of WorkDecember 2018
The Kauffman Foundation’s Donna Deeds discusses how learning needs to be purposeful and relevant, with a focus on preparing students for the realities of life and learning after graduation.
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Online education's expansion continues in higher ed with a focus on tech skillsOctober 2018
New higher education online opportunities include open Foundry College, a for-profit, two-year program that targets adult learners who want to upskill.
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Walmart grants $4M to support workforce educationOctober 2018
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation’s funding includes $2.4M to the Foundation for California Community Colleges to launch an online community college to serve adult learners and $1M to edX to help launch a series of courses in "MicroBachelors" programs.
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Burton D. Morgan Foundation awards $1.5 million in grants for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education for youth, college students, and adults.October 2018
Morgan Foundation’s grants, which help people build the entrepreneurial mindset and develop an awareness of entrepreneurship as an important driver of the economy, included support to four Junior Achievement programs in Northeast Ohio.
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New evidence report from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation finds disappointing effects for federally-funded programs to facilitate prisoner re-entry.October 2018
The foundation calls for a new approach after finding that services funded by the Department of Justice’s Second Chance Act Adult Demonstration Program had no significant effect.
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Over the last four decades, the number of people in America’s prisons and jails has increased 500 percent.September 2018
The Square One Project, a new three-year initiative to re-examine traditional responses to crime, launched this month with support from The Laura and John Arnold Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and Columbia University Justice Lab.
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The Harold Alfond Foundation helps Maine HS students pursue post-secondary opportunitiesSeptember 2018
The Alfond Scholarship Foundation grants every child born in Maine $500 in a NextGen529 account that can only to be used for postsecondary education.
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Entrepreneurs Donate and Volunteer More Than Others, Study ShowsSeptember 2018
A study by Fidelity Charitable reports that the median gift from an entrepreneur is 50 percent higher than from other kinds of donors.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review: "Why Proven Solutions Struggle to Scale Up"September 2018
Inadequate funding is identified as one of three barriers that repeatedly block social innovations from reaching their broadest impact. The authors identify four considerations for funders.
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JPMorgan Chase Launches $500 Million AdvancingCities Initiative to Boost Economic OpportunitySeptember 2018
JPMC’s grants and low-cost loans, which seek to help more people benefit from the growing economy, include an emphasis on connecting more people to jobs with a pathway to a career and greater financial security.
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Laura and John Arnold Foundation announce launch of the Texas Policy LabSeptember 2018
This new public-private partnership will bring together data experts, social scientists, and policymakers to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public programs.
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Back to the Future - Workforce SolutionsAugust 2018
“Government and traditional education” are not the answer to the skills gap and changing labor markets, writes this college president, who sees the need for a strategic paradigm shift both in industry and education. How can technical colleges help?
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Making Welfare Recipients Work Is a Question of ValuesAugust 2018
Should work requirements be tied to safety-net programs for low-income Americans? AEI's Michael Strain makes the case in Bloomberg that the issue is more about philosophy than policy.
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Going Local in a Troubled TimeJuly 2018
An essay by Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs, emphasizes the importance of developing local solutions to national problems.