Congratulations to grantee ICA and ICA Teens for hosting its first national teen arts education conference this weekend. Honorable guests included 2018 National Youth Poet Laureate, Patricia Frazier. The event brought recognition to the critical role arts education plays in equipping the next generation with tools to imagine what is possible for themselves, their communities, […]

Partners in Health, a Boston-based international medical charity, has received a $15 million gift to support its work in developing nations. The gift, from the Boston-based Wagner Foundation, is the one of the largest donations in Partners in Health’s 31-year history. The organization said it would use the grant to measure its impact in reducing […]

August 1, 2018 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON – The Wagner Foundation, a private Boston-based foundation, announced today that it is supporting international medical charity Partners In Health with a $15 million grant. The award represents the largest donation to any entity in the Wagner Foundation’s 13-year history, and will enable Partners In Health to […]

The results are in and Year Up has proven the success of its model on a national stage. In the report released on June 25, 2018, by the federally sponsored “Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education” (PACE) evaluation, Year Up has demonstrated the largest earnings increase of any workforce program in the history of the […]

A new memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, features a tribute honoring thousands of victims of lynching. The memorial is accompanied by the Legacy Museum, which chronicles the eras of racial injustice. Michelle Miller speaks to attorney Bryan Stevenson and Anthony Ray Hinton, a man who was exonerated from death row. Click here for CBS this morning […]

Recent assessment of Gender Equity Grants (GEG) demonstrate the individual and business benefits of investing in women in agricultural industries. A new assessment, funded as part of our growing partnership with Root Capital and their Women in Agriculture Initiative (WAI), shows the positive impact Gender Equity Grants can make for women and businesses in the […]