Educational Foundation of America Seeks Proposals for Website Redesign
Release Date:
08/30/2016
Externally, EFA has purposefully assumed a low profile as the Foundation is not interested in touting its own achievements.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative
Release Date:
08/26/2016
Funded by a $32 million gift from Michael R. Bloomberg, Harvard University and Bloomberg Philanthropies have announced the launch of a joint initiative aimed at advancing leadership, management, and innovation in cities across America and around the...
Rockefeller Foundation's Boltz: Take a Fluid Approach to Build Fresh Water Resilience
Release Date:
08/26/2016
Fred Boltz, managing director and member of the leadership team at The Rockefeller Foundation, advocates building the reality of floods, droughts, and coastal storms into design, planning and investment practice.
Health Department, United Hospital Fund, and Partners Release Plan to Promote Health Equity
Release Date:
08/26/2016
The plan is intended to guide New York City's primary care providers, as well as health plans, policymakers, and other stakeholders, in the adoption of a delivery model that improves health care quality, improves patients’ experience of care, and...
John A. Hartford Foundation's Fulmer to be Honored by New York Academy of Medicine
Release Date:
08/25/2016
JAHF President Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, will receive The New York Academy of Medicine’s Award for Exceptional Service to the Academy in a ceremony on Nov. 3, 2016. Dr. Fulmer is one of five distinguished leaders to be honored that day by the...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative
Release Date:
08/25/2016
The foundation will support the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University's launch of local/national news partnership project that will show community sites in Jersey how, for example, they can produce the same eye-catching data...
Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures
Release Date:
08/25/2016
William Codery, program officer of Surdna Foundation’s Strong Local Economies program, advises that "in order to create the ecosystem needed for local communities to thrive economically, socially and culturally, we have to invest in their success at...
New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana
Release Date:
08/25/2016
New York Life announced today that it will donate $100,000 to aid flood relief efforts in Louisiana with a $50,000 donation to the American Red Cross, a $25,000 donation to Baton Rouge Area Foundation Flood Relief Fund and $25,000 to the Greater...
A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field
Release Date:
08/24/2016
Morehouse College in Atlanta recently secured $2.5 million from Jim and Marilyn Simons towards educating math and science students.
Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist
Release Date:
08/24/2016
Major philanthropies like the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation have invested deeply in finding a small number of great philanthropic investments—but they have been unusual.
Carnegie's Kim Lew Voices Concerns on Low-Return Environments for Foundation Endowments
Release Date:
08/24/2016
Kim Lew, chief investment officer of the Carnegie Corporation, raised another concern in the low-return environment: the move by endowments into riskier assets.
Marist College, Rockefeller Archive Center Partner on Open-Source Technologies for Digital Archival Processes
Release Date:
08/24/2016
Marist College and the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) have partnered to develop and implement a sustainable and robust platform capable of supporting the complex archival management of digitized and born-digital records.
Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health
Release Date:
08/23/2016
“The goal here is really to address this giant gap, whereby we know 65 percent of deaths in the world — that’s about 35 million — go unrecorded,” said Dr. Kelly Henning, who has led the Bloomberg Philanthropies public health program since it started...
MasterCard Makes Fortune List of Businesses Confronting World's Problems
Release Date:
08/23/2016
More businesses are taking on society’s biggest problems—and making money doing so. Here’s our look at 50 companies that do well by doing good.
Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures
Release Date:
08/22/2016
Sara Collins, vice president for healthcare coverage and access at The Commonwealth Fund, said she believes the Obamacare markets are maturing rather than dying.
Russell Sage Foundation Papers Help Explain the Growing Wage Gap
Release Date:
08/22/2016
A new essay from researchers Martha J. Bailey and Thomas A. DiPrete, which is part of a newly released collection of papers from the Russell Sage Foundation, helps to explain why women are no longer catching up to men when it comes to pay.
Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy
Release Date:
08/22/2016
Thanassis Cambanis, senior fellow at the Century Foundation, advocates that the United States escalate its existing military intervention in Syria to raise the chances of a political solution to Syria’s civil war while limiting the potential for...
Native American Youth Can't Wait
Release Date:
08/22/2016
Edgar Villanueva, VP of Programs & Advocacy at The Schott Foundation for Public Education urges philanthropy to see the tremendous potential in Native communities.
Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika
Release Date:
08/19/2016
Zika infection kills off neural stem cells in adult mice bred to be vulnerable to the virus, researchers at the Rockefeller University and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report in Cell Stem Cell.
Minority Business Accelerator Gets Another Big Boost from Surdna Foundation
Release Date:
08/19/2016
The MBA's work aligns well with one of the core missions of the Surdna Foundation, said Jose Garcia, a program officer with the foundation's Strong Local Economies program.