A Look At Bloomberg's Latest Move on Public Art
Release Date:
02/26/2018
The Public Art Challenge is a part of Mike Bloomberg’s American Cities Initiative, an effort to help U.S. cities generate innovation and advance policy.
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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...
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.
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...
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...
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 Journal From The Russell Sage Foundation Reimagines Approach to Eradicating Poverty
Release Date:
02/21/2018
The proposed policies could help lift 23.3 million people of color out of poverty.
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
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.
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...
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