Pinkerton, Kaplan and NY Community Trust Staff to Be Honored by City & State
Release Date:
02/05/2016
The media company, City & State Reports, and New York Law School announced this year's Corporate, Foundation and Family Philanthropy honorees.
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Release Date:
02/05/2016
As the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare marks ten years, it celebrates its founders’ vision and its progress in preparing 1,000 nurse faculty and clinical leaders. And Jonas Center leadership reiterates that efforts to advance all...
NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)
Release Date:
02/04/2016
The NonProfit Times' editorial notes that as the nation's presidential candidates talk policy, the charitable sector never gets its due, and asks foundation leaders to steer the conversation.
Arabella Advisors Hires Managing Director of Advocacy, Scott Nielsen
Release Date:
02/04/2016
Scott Nielsen, who has years of experience helping foundations develop and evaluate advocacy initiatives, has joined Arabella as managing director of advocacy.
DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust
Release Date:
02/04/2016
The lives of New York senior citizens are the subject of a year-long project called Exceeding Expectations, which is run by the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and led by journalist...
New Publication Examines the Funding Model For Public Research Universities (Carnegie Corp.)
Release Date:
02/04/2016
Public research universities continue to devote most of their resources to their core activities: teaching and research. Despite this prioritization, as states have continued to reduce their contributions to public research universities, tuition is...
Produce Buyers & Sellers Support Food Safety Research Campaign (Target Corp.)
Release Date:
02/04/2016
The fresh produce supply chain is supporting the Center for Produce Safety's Campaign for Produce Safety, as retail and foodservice buyers and producers announced commitments to fund produce-specific food safety research.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools
Release Date:
02/04/2016
Safe schools are a critical concern, writes Deborah N. Archer, Professor of Law, New York Law School, and board member of Brooklyn Community Foundation.
Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities
Release Date:
02/04/2016
The Mellon Foundation grant will support of efforts to increase the number of Latino professors in the humanities at U.S. colleges and universities.
Josiah Macy Foundation Supports Project in Integrated Care for Psychologists & Doctors
Release Date:
02/03/2016
Geropsychologist Lauren N. DeCaporale-Ryan, PhD, works at the University of Rochester Medical Center, but her focus isn't on patients. She works with those staff in the psychiatry, medicine and surgery departments.
International Genome Research Partnership Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
A massive international research partnership has sequenced the entire genome of the common bed bug, uncovering several traits that also could reveal why they’re so resistant to pesticides.
Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
New research findings may lead to the treatment of blinding eye diseases using a patient’s own corrected cells as replacement tissue.
Arabella Advisors Hires Julia Sze as Managing Director of Impact Investing
Release Date:
02/03/2016
Julia Sze has joined Arabella Advisors as its new managing director of impact investing. Sze will work with Cynthia Muller, Arabella’s head of impact investing, to lead the firm’s rapidly growing impact investing practice.
Ford Foundation, Cannes Film Market Launch Documentary Film Push Against Inequality
Release Date:
02/02/2016
The Ford Foundation’s and Cannes Film Market’s networking mini-mart Doc Corner announced a two year-partnership to raise global awareness on social justice, working against inequality.
Q&A with Sreenivasan: The Met Engages Audiences with Digital Technology (Bloomberg Philanthropies)
Release Date:
02/02/2016
Through innovative partnerships and bold approaches, the Bloomberg Philanthropies arts program increases access to culture using new technologies. The chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art discusses the intersection of art and...
Edna McConnell Clark and Others Launch $1B Initiative Providing Long-Term, Unrestricted Funding
Release Date:
02/02/2016
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and nine other donors announced a new investment inititative to put at least $1 billion to work in high-performance nonprofits that are poised to have truly national impact for economically disadvantaged children...
Westchester Community Foundation Names Tara Seeley as New Program Officer
Release Date:
02/02/2016
The Westchester Community Foundation has appointed Tara Seeley as program officer. She was previously a program officer at the Central Indiana Community Foundation.
Atlantic Announces $40M for Fellowship to Reduce International Health Disparities
Release Date:
02/01/2016
Atlantic Philanthropies, in its last year of grantmaking, announced a number of major investments to improve access to quality health care for people in both Southeast Asia and the United States.
Forum’s New President on Reducing Duplication and Increasing Collaboration in Philanthropy’s Infrastructure
Release Date:
02/01/2016
David Biemesderfer, the new president of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, says the nation's largest philanthropic network will work more closely with national affinity groups.
NYS Health Foundation Releases Report on Uninsured Immigrants & Insurance Coverage
Release Date:
02/01/2016
As many as 457,000 unauthorized, uninsured immigrant New Yorkers remain ineligible for health care coverage, a new report from the NYS Health Foundation finds.