Johnson & Johnson's CaringCrowd's platform is dedicated to crowdfunding to improve global public health. Its latest project will introduce sanitation facilities to improve the health of families with young children.
MetLife Foundation supports Common Cents Lab, a financial research lab at Duke University that collaborates with chosen financial services providers to custom design, test, and launch new features and products that aim to increase financial well-...
The once sleepy world of corporate philanthropy has been perking up lately. An older model of giving—which often involved cutting lots of checks to local charities without asking many questions—is giving way to a more focused and strategic approach...
Two new strategies show promise in battling malaria, a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, mostly children ages five and under in sub-Saharan Africa.Both new strategies involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria...
On Wednesday afternoon, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg took to Twitter to announce that he will match donations given to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization that advocates for gun control that he founded in 2014.
A new short film, the second installment in a series produced by the Simons Foundation, chronicles the work of scientists developing the Simons Observatory. The film traverses the globe, from the barren Atacama Desert in Chile to the sunny beaches...
United Hospital Fund paid tribute tonight at its annual gala to leaders in philanthropy, banking, and health care—James H. Simons, PhD, Priscilla Almodovar, Robert Gore, MD, and James R. Tallon, Jr.—in recognition of their important contributions to...
New York's health care spending overall and per capita are among the highest in the nation. Health care expenditures were the second highest in the country, totaling $193 billion in 2014, up from $165 billion in 2009. A new data snapshot from...