Jonas Center Advisory Board Welcomes New Members
Release Date:
05/10/2017
The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare announced updates to its national Advisory Board, including three new members.
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Release Date:
05/10/2017
Part of JPMorgan Chase's five-year, $75 million New Skills for Youth initiative, the program aims to connect career and technical education schools in the South Bronx to NYC employers in health care, information technology, and transportation,...
Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom
Release Date:
05/10/2017
FarmerLink, a pilot project set up by a consortium to make small-scale coconut farmers in the Philippines more resilient to shocks like natural disasters and pests, and increase their productivity, takes advantage of mobile technology.
Casey Family Programs Among Supporters of Grandparents Rally on Lawn of U.S. Capitol
Release Date:
05/10/2017
Grandparents and other relative caregivers, children and advocates from around the country will join U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building for the 5th National GrandRally:...
Rockefeller Foundation’s Claudia Juech, Associate Vice President & Managing Director, Answers “5 Questions” in PND
Release Date:
05/10/2017
Claudia Juech spoke about Rockefeller's "scan and search" activities, an approach used to bring more diverse voices into early stages of its work, ensure that all early-stage decisions are based on the best available evidence, and do the most good...
Open Call For Collaborative Reporting Projects
Release Date:
05/10/2017
The Rita Allen Foundation is supporting the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University to launch an open call for collaborative reporting projects.
Immigrant Rights Fund: 6 Lessons We’ve Learned So Far
Release Date:
05/09/2017
Brooklyn Community Foundation's Prachi Patankar talks about what it really takes to build a movement.
Surdna-Funded Study Calls for Targeted Federal Policies to Create Quality Jobs
Release Date:
05/09/2017
To reverse economic trends that have left many American workers behind, smart, targeted public policies that encourage private-sector investment in the creation of quality jobs are needed, a report from Pacific Community Ventures finds.
Gay Rights Group Turns Down Bank of America’s Money Over HB2 Compromise
Release Date:
05/09/2017
The nation’s largest gay rights group plans to reject $325,000 in Bank of America sponsorships to protest the role bank executives played in brokering a replacement for North Carolina’s House Bill 2 - known as "the bathroom bill."
Open Society Foundation Funds Program with Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees
Release Date:
05/09/2017
In partnership with the International Rescue Committee, Sesame Street characters will be bringing smiles — and education — to millions of refugee children forced from their homes in Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countries.
Six NYC Scientists Win Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research
Release Date:
05/08/2017
Recipients receive $200,000 in funding per year for up to three years, for a total of $600,000, to support explorative, high-risk/high-reward cancer research. The awards will be presented on May 24.
Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access
Release Date:
05/08/2017
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage provisions have extended health insurance coverage to millions of Americans. While the effects of the Medicaid expansion and marketplace establishments on coverage have been well studied, the resulting...
Bloomberg Philanthropies: Six Things Cities Need to Know About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Release Date:
05/08/2017
For cities and urban planners the issues surrounding how much autonomous vehicles could change the way we live and the shape of our communities in the coming decades is very significant.
NY State Health Foundation CEO: 1M New Yorkers Could Lose Health Coverage Under AHCA
Release Date:
05/08/2017
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) could undermine healthcare coverage gains for New Yorkers and result in more than 1 million of them losing that coverage.
Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts
Release Date:
05/08/2017
Fare & Square is a non-profit supermarket opened by Philabundance to counter the massive food desert that is Chester, which for more than a decade before its opening had no grocery store. Residents in Chester, about a third of whom live in...
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Trauma and Resilience Supporting Immigrant Children, Their Families, and Our Communities through Collaboration - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR
Thursday, June 15, 2017 -
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Immigrant and refugee children, as well as children of immigrants, face not only the common challenges of childhood, but many unique burdens.
With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans
Release Date:
05/05/2017
Americans age 50 and older who report that they have been incarcerated at some point in their lives are more likely to express anxiety about several aspects of retirement, to have experienced unemployment in the recent past, and to have fewer...
United Hospital Fund and New York State Health Foundation Support New Model to Advance Integration of Behavioral Health Services in New York Primary Care Practices
Release Date:
05/05/2017
Montefiore Health System, the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been awarded two grants to improve the ability of primary care physicians in small practices to treat common behavioral health conditions, such as anxiety...
Commonwealth Fund Report Finds that the GOP Health Care Act Would Reverse Gains Made by Community Hospitals
Release Date:
05/05/2017
As House Republicans savor their major victory Thursday in narrowly passing their highly controversial and little-understood plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, it’s instructive to consider some of the highly positive fiscal...
JPMorgan Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs
Release Date:
05/05/2017
The initiative will create a system for aligning career and technical education programs with in-demand jobs in growing New York City industries.