Research to Prevent Blindness Celebrates 60th Anniversary
Release Date:
02/05/2020
Today, Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) celebrates the 60th anniversary of its incorporation.
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Morgan Stanley Foundation Launches Alliance for Children's Mental Health
Release Date:
02/03/2020
These days, you can hardly turn on the news or scroll through your social media feed without coming across one more tragic story about a young person who was suffering in silence: an overdose, a suicide attempt or worse. In fact, suicide is now one...
Gun Violence in the United States Is a Crisis of Public Health and Public Safety – and Philanthropy Is Stepping Up
Release Date:
01/14/2020
We have all become far too familiar with the sobering statistics. Each year, more than 100,000 Americans are killed or injured by firearms. Mass shootings may make the headlines, but the sad reality of everyday gun violence often gets relegated to...
Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans - New Report by The Century Foundation
Release Date:
12/19/2019
The American health care system in beset with inequalities that have a disproportionate impact on people of color and other marginalized groups. These inequalities contribute to gaps in health insurance coverage, uneven access to services, and...
Piramal Swasthya and The Rockefeller Foundation Announce Partnership to Accelerate India’s Public Health Transformation
Release Date:
12/17/2019
This partnership will focus on mothers and children in Aspirational Districts, which include both tribal and non-tribal vulnerable populations of India.
Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas, The Greenwall Foundation Spring 2020 RFP
Release Date:
12/12/2019
The Greenwall Foundation is requesting proposals for the Spring 2020 cycle of its bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas , to support research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered bioethics...
Tokyo Joins Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Partnership for Healthy Cities
Release Date:
12/12/2019
$12 Million Reinvestment to Expand the Partnership to 70 Cities
Making Lunch Free Was Just the Beginning
Release Date:
12/10/2019
It was a proud moment for New York City when its public school system began implementing universal free school lunch on the first day of the school year in 2017.
Rats Replay Memories Forward and Backwards to Make Decisions, Understanding the Memory Process Will Lead to Treatments for Diseases Where Memory is Impaired, Research Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Release Date:
12/10/2019
While making decisions, rats’ brains replay their memories, a process called memory consolidation, researchers report.
The Amida Care Fund at Stonewall Community Foundation Announces 2019 Grant Awards for HIV/AIDS Initiatives at NYC Community Organizations
Release Date:
12/10/2019
The Amida Care Fund at Stonewall Community Foundation announced today that it has awarded a total of $30,000 in grant funding for innovative HIV prevention and services to several community-based organizations to help them continue their important...
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