From India to Africa: A Quest to Learn about Reducing Food Loss
Release Date:
01/15/2015
Africa Region Associate Director, C.D. Glin examines how the Rockefeller Foundation is addressing food loss worldwide.
Food Systems
New Report Offers Framework to Analyze Effects of Potential Changes to the US Food System
Release Date:
01/14/2015
The JPB Foundation-funded study examines the relationship between health, environment, society and the economy.
Weinberg Foundation Names New Position
Release Date:
12/18/2014
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has promoted Sheryl Goldstein to Managing Director, Programs and Grants.
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Providing Access to Better Food in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Release Date:
12/02/2014
The foundation supports Wholesome Wave's Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program
MasterCard Foundation Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
11/07/2014
The program will help improve productivity for 730,000 farmers in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.
Tiffany & Co. Foundation Among Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research
Release Date:
10/27/2014
Stricter fisheries management can combat the effects of climate change.
Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow
Release Date:
07/17/2014
Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
City's Green Cart Initiative Judged An "Extraordinary Success"
Release Date:
07/13/2014
Evaluators are calling an "extraordinary success" an initiative launched in NYC in 2008, with support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, to make more fresh fruits and vegetables available in low-income neighborhoods.
Hunger-Relief Programs Receive Morgan Stanley Support To Feed More Children
Release Date:
07/09/2014
The Morgan Stanley Foundation is awarding more than $1 million in grants to local food banks and their hunger-relief programs that deliver nutritious meals to children and families in 27 cities and 17 states.
NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Release Date:
06/11/2014
[Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund] New York City's Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food in otherwise underserved high-density and low-income neighborhoods, influenced customers' consumption of fruits and vegetables, and...
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