Prisoner to Proprietor: Entrepreneurship as a Re-entry Strategy
Release Date:
09/29/2016
Joseph A. Antolin, Executive Director of the Asset Funders Network, highlights a strategy that works with the formerly incarcerated to become entrepreneurs.
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Three Prominent Leaders Recognized By United Hospital Fund For Their Work To Improve Health And Health Care
Release Date:
09/29/2016
United Hospital Fund paid tribute to Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, Scott B. Salmirs, and Herbert Pardes, MD,at its annual gala, acknowledging their important contributions to improving health and health care.
Research to Prevent Blindness- Backed Study Uncovers Major Cause of Vision Loss
Release Date:
09/29/2016
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a pathway involved in harming rods and cones and have found a way to halt that damage.
Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings
Release Date:
09/29/2016
The aim is to help "change the landscape" of American racial discourse by openly acknowledging a painful past, much as Germany has Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state-sanctioned segregation - apartheid.
Century Foundation Report Criticizes Student Loan Guaranty Agencies
Release Date:
09/29/2016
A new report from the Century Foundation criticizes student loan guaranty agencies, arguing that they largely have abandoned their public missions.
Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors
Release Date:
09/29/2016
Yale University researchers conducted a study with the Milbank Memorial Fund to learn what the challenges were in implementing a more social services-oriented approach within health departments and across communities.
Donzelina Barroso Named as Director, Global Philanthropy, for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Release Date:
09/28/2016
A seasoned philanthropic expert, Barroso will lead RPA’s London office.
Andrus Family Fund's Peguro Praised in NCRP's Reflections on Resilience and Community Building
Release Date:
09/28/2016
Leticia Peguero, Executive Director of the Andrus Family Fund, urged confrerence attendees to embrace a hashtag call to action: #hayotraforma (#thereisanotherway).
Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer
Release Date:
09/28/2016
A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) screened thousands of non-coding RNAs to find those that were expressed at high levels in two types of aggressive breast cancer.
Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum
Release Date:
09/28/2016
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum announces the appointment of Camille Ann Brewer as the museum’s first full-time curator of contemporary textile art.
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