Unbound Philanthropy, a family foundation that funds work to protect the human rights of immigrants and refugees and to support their integration into receiving communities, has promoted two staff members to directorships while doubling its staff...
(Laura Cronin’s interview with Kimberleigh J. Smith originally appeared on PhilanTopic , the Philanthropy News Digest blog, on June 12, 2012 and is reprinted with permission.) Philanthropy News Digest : As a founder of two of the...
George E. Thibault, M.D., President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, talks about the importance of interprofessional education—when students from different health care professions learn together during their training in order to build teamwork and...
By George E. Thibault, M.D., President, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation A growing body of evidence shows that health care delivered by well-functioning teams leads to better patient outcomes, greater efficiencies and even professional...
Our 33rd Annual Meeting was our most ambitious event to date and the first time we extended the program by hosting two very animated breakout sessions with policy leaders, live-tweeting and engaging outside audiences through a live-feed. The event...
By Lori Bezahler, President, Edward W. Hazen Foundation Over the past 15 years, education policy has gone from a bureaucratic backwater to a topic debated on the front pages of every city’s major newspaper. Where once we had...
By Maria Mottola, Executive Director, New York Foundation Dubbed “The Three Tenors of The Education World,” Arne Duncan (United States Secretary of Education), John B. King, Jr. (New York State...
Cassius O. Johnson, an education policy analyst, will join the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a Program Officer working on the foundation’s New Designs for K-16 Pathways program. Johnson is an experienced education reformer, whose tenure at...