Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine NAFLD Research Center find MRE imaging provides highly accurate, less invasive method to detect disease.
Local nonprofits working innovatively to catalyze career opportunities for low-income youth are encouraged to submit program ideas through May 2, 2016.
A new NYSHealth-funded report found that hospitals' involvement in population health programs to address healthy foods, parks, housing and employment is not widespread.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon introduced a program called PRO Neighborhoods to support areas of the country that have missed out on the benefits of recent urban development.
A new research project by the Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG), in conjunction with Foundation Center, finds that peace and security funders are making important contributions to global peace and stability.
Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, the City University of New York’s newest institution, will relocate from its Midtown home to much larger digs in a CUNY-owned building on the Upper West Side.
A study released in 2014 by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that New York State’s schools are the most segregated schools in the country, more segregated than they were a decade ago. Between 1989 and 2010, the percentage of schools in the New...
A grant program managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society is exploring new methods for helping wildlife in the United States to adapt to rapidly shifting environmental conditions brought about by climate change.
There are many non-profit organizations dedicated to identifying and helping victims of labor trafficking and now private businesses are joining in to help address the issue.
Albany launched its innovative Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, a harm-reduction oriented program to reduce low-level arrests and recidivism.
The Rockefeller Family Fund has long campaigned for green energy and against carbon emissions, so its fossil fuel investments certainly did not make sense ethically, but financially. Other organizations and investors are also questioning fossil fuel...
Marianna Islam has joined the Schott Foundation as the Director of Programs and Advocacy. Marianna will work with program staff to develop and implement the foundation’s resource delivery strategy, including the provision of grantmaking,...
Philanthropy News Digest interviews Pamela Shifman of the NoVo Foundation, a private foundation created in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett that has long worked in the U.S. and Global South. Last week, it announced a $90 million commitment to...
While finding affordable real estate can be doubly tricky for artists who need to find affordable space in NYC to live and work, four new projects — all of which won grants recently from the New York Community Trust — aim to make it easier for...
U.S. Department of Agriculture officials joined 15 national and regional philanthropic partners to announce a new initiative to bolster the supply chain for local food systems around 10 key U.S. cities. The project, dubbed 'Food LINC', will connect...
Noting the growing number of "go-it-alone" diversity efforts by universities to attract minority faculty, The PhD Project – a national organization to diversify business school faculty – is calling for for a coordinated, nationwide approach to the...