F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments
Release Date:
02/26/2018
Clara Miller, who has headed the F.B. Heron Foundation for the past three years, wants to take the ultimate impact investing step: to go "all in".
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William Bell of Casey Family Programs on Funding Early Intervention Services to Keep Families Together
Release Date:
02/23/2018
At a Senate committee hearing William Bell, president of Casey Family Programs, said that for every $7 spent on foster care there is only $1 spent on prevention. He said states need the ability to target their existing resources into early...
Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism
Release Date:
02/23/2018
Shifman, Executive Director of NoVo Foundation, offers three ways white people in philanthropy can begin to respond to racism.
Ford, Hilton Foundation, and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability
Release Date:
02/23/2018
Understanding that stable homes provide an important platform for individual success and thriving communities, nine of the nation’s largest private foundations have joined forces to create the Funders for Housing and Opportunity collaborative, with...
Supported By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Scientists Create New Therapeutic Gel That Shows Promise Against Cancerous Tumors
Release Date:
02/22/2018
Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and NC State have created an injectable gel-like scaffold that can hold combination chemo-immunotherapeutic drugs and deliver them locally to tumors in a sequential manner.
New Report Funded by Foundation for Child Development Focuses On Restructuring the Financing of Early Care and Education
Release Date:
02/22/2018
High-quality early care and education (ECE) is critical to positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, but the current financing structure of ECE leaves many children without access to high-quality services and...
Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies
Release Date:
02/21/2018
The 2018 edition of the World's Most Innovative Companies spans more than 350 enterprises across 36 categories, from the world's most valuable firm and its continuing transformation of consumer electronics to a small outfit selling natural gum to...
Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser
Release Date:
02/21/2018
Although mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones let us communicate, work and access information wirelessly, their batteries must still be charged by plugging them into an outlet. But engineers at the University of Washington have for the...
New Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations
Release Date:
02/21/2018
Detroit-based LUCK stands for Learning Under Correct Knowledge , helping returning citizens, those newly released from prison.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Selects Top 35 Innovative Urban Ideas as Finalists in 2018 Mayors Challenge
Release Date:
02/21/2018
As Part of the Bloomberg American Cities Initiative, Challenge Will Invest $17.5 Million in Grants and Technical Assistance to Discover Innovative Solutions to Urgent Local Issues
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