The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded six Rapid Response Research Grants that will leverage research to address major challenges facing young people in the United States.
This month, the Fund welcomed Oma Lee and Danxi Shen, young professionals in China’s growing philanthropic sector, as our 2018 Richard Rockefeller Fellows.
NYU has received a $1 million, three-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its Prison Education Program (PEP), an initiative that brings a college education to incarcerated individuals at New York’s Wallkill Correctional...
Danielle Levoit, Program Officer for the Environment, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation writes about cultivating landscapes’ health and biodiversity through conservation practices that consider the changing climate.
On March 26, at around 9 p.m., Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced his decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census, in response to a request from the Department of Justice. The Secretary noted that he received more than...
A $75 million donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies and $45 million more from Frank McCourt, Jr. to arts nonprofit The Shed puts to the test whether mega-donors see New York City or Los Angeles as the national art capital of the future.
For four days last week, Pfizer and Rise Against Hunger engaged hundreds of volunteers at the SXSW Trade Show to package meals for vulnerable individuals and families around the world. By the time the last box had been stacked, more than 11,016...
A group of scientists developed a "sun shield" that they hope can help prevent coral bleaching, which spread across the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 2016 and 2017.
The purpose of the Healthiest Communities project is to provide residents, policymakers and health leaders with insight into factors called the social determinants of health that affect everyone's quality of life and longevity.
Century Foundation Report Reveals NY’s For-Profit Colleges Leave Students with Debt and Little Impact on Earning Potential New York’s for-profit colleges leave students with huge debt and have little impact on earning potential,...
Join the New York City Vision Funders Group for its next quarterly meeting. The meeting will include a presentation of updates and announcements from its members as well as a discussion about State- and locally-provided low vision services for...
In the study, which was published in Science Translational Medicine , the researchers pooled and analyzed 6 epidemiological studies of mumps vaccine effectiveness conducted over past decades in the United States and Europe.
If you’ve ever spent a day or two pounding the hard terrazzo floors of the U.S. House and Senate office buildings talking with legislators and their staffs, you know that the artifice of political exchange presented in the now classic HBO television...
The Buen Vivir Fund—established by Thousand Currents and backed by the NoVo Foundation (founded by Peter Buffett, son of Warren Buffett, and his wife Jennifer)—is seeking to deploy a different, albeit historically well tested, impact investment...
A study by two professors found that Latino-American families’ mental health is suffering because of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies.
The Whiting Foundation announced the 10 winners of its annual prize Wednesday, cobbling a list that spans fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama in its bid to honor literature's most promising emerging writers.
The Teagle Foundation announced that its next president will be Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.