The Illumination Fund considers media and communications as an important way to amplify the work of its grantees and to share program models. Some recent press coverage and program news can be found below.
NYC’s green carts – you know, those vendors you see on street corners selling fresh fruits and veggies? – are a wonderful source of healthful food for New Yorkers, and now there’s even a cookbook to show you some tasty recipes you can make with…
Laurie Tisch was interviewed about her philanthropy at the Aspen Ideas Festival by genConnect. Watch the full interview below and read the related article.
Illumination Fund grantee Echoing Green continues to empower game-changing individuals through their new Fellowship class. The 36 visionaries comprising the 2012 class are both traditional Echoing Green Fellows and an inaugural group of Black Male Acheivement Fellows. The Fellows are leaders across the areas of civil and…
The Opportunity Index is the nation’s first – and only – tool designed to provide a snapshot of what opportunity looks like at the state and county levels. Created by Illumination Fund grantee and partner Be The Change, the Opportunity Index is already impacting the language and framework…
Philanthropy, literally “a love of humankind,” is about giving for the benefit of others. Do women have a unique capacity for philanthropic action? Do they practice philanthropy differently than men? Certainly, the majority of women lacked the economic power for philanthropy until relatively recently. But…
Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab announced that LegalHealth, a division of New York Legal Assistance Group, and Mark Hannay, Executive Director of Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, are the recipients of the second annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize. The prize, which was…
BronxNet featured Renee Shanker, Director of Wellness at Montefiore Medical Center, and Dr. William Jordan in a conversation about healthy eating, vendors in the Bronx, and the film The Apple Pushers
Fox Business discussed The Apple Pushers in the context of the American Dream. Read Nancy Colasurdo’s article here. Fatima Shama, Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, discusses The Apple Pushers on a PIX 11 News interview. Watch it here. The New York Times discusses Green Carts, Healthy Bodegas, Health Bucks, and other interventions in…
The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund announced ten community-based organizations throughout the five boroughs that will each receive a $7,500 grant to provide services and business training to NYC Green Cart vendors. The grants, awarded by the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City in…
When we released the NYC Green Cart Cookbook last year, we were lucky to have several top New York City chefs on board. We’ve been keeping tabs on them, and here’s what they’re up to: Eddie Huang was recently profiled in The New York Observer and opened a second restaurant last…
Children’s museums do not usually have exhibitions that involve crawling through a giant digestive system. But such an installation — along with a play center where visitors learn the power of pedaling, bouncing and jumping and a place to meet superpowered vegetable heroes — is…
Laurie told me about an initiative she was helping to fund in a public-private partnership with the city of New York called the Green Carts Program, in which hundreds of street vendors (“micro-entrepreneurs,” as economists like to call them) were rolling carts of fruits and…
Laurie Tisch is going to the Super Bowl, but first she had to pick up some vegetables in the Bronx. “Thursday I’m on the friends and family charter,” she reported. “Hopefully I’ll make it there for the friends and family dinner,” hosted, she said, by…
Laurie Tisch wanted to know whether she had a story worth being told when she approached documentary filmmaker Mary Mazzio. When Mazzio explored Tisch’s idea, she found not one, but five stories begging to be told. This initial meeting between the two women inspired The…
The East End is in fact edible, with its countless producers of fresh-grown fruits and vegetables and an abundance of agriculture at its residents’ fingertips. The main roads of our towns are not lined with fast-food joints, but rather farm stands and pick-your-own purveyors. We…