Pinkerton, Kaplan and NY Community Trust Staff to Be Honored by City & State
Release Date:
02/05/2016
The media company, City & State Reports, and New York Law School announced this year's Corporate, Foundation and Family Philanthropy honorees.
Member News
Rauch Foundation and Others Publish Report that Quantifies Long Island’s Housing Needs
Release Date:
02/05/2016
Regional Plan Association, HR&A Advisors Inc., and the Rauch Foundation released new research this week highlighting the high demand for multifamily housing on Long Island and proposing solutions to meet the demand.
Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities
Release Date:
02/04/2016
The Mellon Foundation grant will support of efforts to increase the number of Latino professors in the humanities at U.S. colleges and universities.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools
Release Date:
02/04/2016
Safe schools are a critical concern, writes Deborah N. Archer, Professor of Law, New York Law School, and board member of Brooklyn Community Foundation.
Produce Buyers & Sellers Support Food Safety Research Campaign (Target Corp.)
Release Date:
02/04/2016
The fresh produce supply chain is supporting the Center for Produce Safety's Campaign for Produce Safety, as retail and foodservice buyers and producers announced commitments to fund produce-specific food safety research.
New Publication Examines the Funding Model For Public Research Universities (Carnegie Corp.)
Release Date:
02/04/2016
Public research universities continue to devote most of their resources to their core activities: teaching and research. Despite this prioritization, as states have continued to reduce their contributions to public research universities, tuition is...
DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust
Release Date:
02/04/2016
The lives of New York senior citizens are the subject of a year-long project called Exceeding Expectations, which is run by the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and led by journalist...
NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)
Release Date:
02/04/2016
The NonProfit Times' editorial notes that as the nation's presidential candidates talk policy, the charitable sector never gets its due, and asks foundation leaders to steer the conversation.
Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
New research findings may lead to the treatment of blinding eye diseases using a patient’s own corrected cells as replacement tissue.
International Genome Research Partnership Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
A massive international research partnership has sequenced the entire genome of the common bed bug, uncovering several traits that also could reveal why they’re so resistant to pesticides.
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