PNY Makes Public Video from Session on Digital Badges
Release Date:
06/12/2014
View the livestream recording and PowerPoint Presentations from the program Expanding Education, Youth Development, and Workforce Opportunities Through Digital Badges.
Technology
New York Community Trust Grants $7.3 Million to 69 Nonprofits in All Five Boroughs and Nationwide
Release Date:
06/09/2014
Nonprofits throughout NYC working to help victims of human trafficking, stop gang violence and build young leaders are among the 69 groups sharing in $7.3 million in grants from The New York Community Trust
Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks and Autism Science Foundation launch Autism BrainNet registration site
Release Date:
05/16/2014
The Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks and the Autism Science Foundation today announced the launch of the Autism BrainNet registration site, It Takes Brains ( www.takesbrains.org ). Autism BrainNet is a consortium of academic sites funded...
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley
Release Date:
04/16/2014
The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, established in 2012 by a grant from the Simons Foundation, brings together leading researchers to explore both the theoretical underpinnings of computer science and its potential to shed light on a...
Rockefeller Foundation Awards $3.8 Million for IT Jobs in Ghana
Release Date:
03/26/2014
Rockefeller Foundation Awards $3.8 Million for IT Jobs in Ghana, reports Philanthropy News Digest.
Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science
Release Date:
03/15/2014
Bloomberg Philanthropies and Simons Foundation profiled in New York Times article on billionaires privatizing American science research.
How To Grow and Activate Your Audience On YouTube
Release Date:
03/12/2014
Brett Davidson, the Director of the Health Media Initiative at the Open Society Foundations, discusses how online video can be used as a powerful tool for promoting causes and connecting a wide array of audiences to nonprofits.
Simons Foundation Launches Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem
Release Date:
03/03/2014
The Simons Foundation has launched the Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem, with the goal of revolutionizing our ability to calculate and understand the properties of molecules and solids important in chemistry, physics and everyday...
Evan Michelson Joins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as Program Officer
Release Date:
02/12/2014
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Evan Michelson joined the foundation as Program Officer on January 1, 2014.
Silicon Alley: The Road to Tomorrow’s Workforce
Release Date:
11/12/2013
The New York Community Trust's Salem Tsegaye talks about how we can train the next generation of NYC-based tech employees and entrepreneurs.
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