Philanthropy as Backer of Brains
Release Date:
05/02/2013
... history of creating, defining and advancing fields, from public health, molecular biology, area studies, and public administration. We even had a role in launching the ...
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Target Hands Decision on $5-Million Schools Gift to Online Voters
Release Date:
08/15/2013
... how it will distribute $5 million in donations to public schools through its “Give With Target” campaign. ... on how it will distribute $5-million in donations to public schools, the first time the store has...
Ford Foundation Pours Millions into Net Neutrality
Release Date:
12/16/2014
... to major telecommunications firms aiming to influence the public debate on net neutrality, there’s the Ford ... Commission will regulate broadband providers as public utilities, restricting providers from...
Ellen Rautenberg Elected Chair of the NY State Health Foundation Board
Release Date:
12/04/2015
... Ellen Rautenberg, the retired President and CEO of Public Health Solutions, has been elected to a two-year term ...
Century Foundation President Comments on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness
Release Date:
07/22/2016
... on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness What makes you a public servant? For the purposes of the federal student loan ... Swalwell (D-Calif.), would allow borrowers who work in public service for incremental...
Ford Foundation Paper Cited in Wired Article on the Future of Open Source Code
Release Date:
08/11/2016
... demand. Nearly all software today relies on free, public code, written and maintained by communities of ... to individuals—to write their own software. Shared, public code makes up the digital infrastructure...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Gives $300M to Johns Hopkins to Tackle Major Domestic Health Issues
Release Date:
09/27/2016
... Health Issues The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health today announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies, ... on a path to transform our national approach to modern public health challenges... Bloomberg...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to NJ Initiative to Address Opioid Epidemic
Release Date:
10/26/2016
... Initiative to Address Opioid Epidemic NJTV, New Jersey’s public television network, announced an open call for ... Drug Addiction Crisis. NJTV challenges members of the public to write an original poem about...
Century Foundation Fellow Gives NYC Schools B-Minus in Efforts to Increase Diversity
Release Date:
11/02/2016
... On the same day the diversity report was released, Public Advocate Letitia James called for the city Department ... oversee efforts to reduce segregation in New York City’s public schools.” While the new...
Supported by Carnegie, ALA Announces Winners of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award'
Release Date:
11/30/2016
... selected from nearly 1,100 nominations submitted by the public detailing how their favorite librarians working in public , school, college, community college or university ...
Kress Foundation Accepting Proposals for Conservation Grants
Release Date:
12/21/2016
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation supports projects that illuminate European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.
The Surdna Foundation Discusses Good Governance in New CEP Report
Release Date:
05/02/2017
CEP’s advisory services team and the Surdna Foundation partnered to produce a new publication that shares stories of good governance at family foundations.
Success Academy Ratchets up Pressure on City to Give It Space
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... network to approve a request for shared space inside public -school buildings for up to seven new middle schools. ... the earliest the city can approve those requests is at a public meeting in November,...
Learning What Worked to Support Women After the 2008 Recession
Release Date:
06/23/2016
... important but neglected by funders in times of crisis. Policy change serves an essential role in deepening the ... many organizations focused on community activation and policy reform faced a steeper battle...
The Power of Bridging Issue Silos Through Funding Collaboratives
Release Date:
11/13/2019
Unbound Philanthropy’s Taryn Higashi interviews Anita Khashu of Four Freedoms Fund, Bridgit Antoinette Evans of Pop Culture Collaborative and Aleyamma Mathew of Collaborative for Women’s Safety and Dignity to discuss the role of cross-issue...
Century Foundation Releases Report on Estimating the Real Cost of Community College
Release Date:
10/24/2017
... adults. Yet, access to equitable, high-quality two-year public colleges remains largely dependent on state - and ... to higher education with a recent push to extend free public education from the elementary...
Four Frameworks for Living Liberation
Release Date:
07/01/2021
... Just Transition framework at a Facing Race conference in 2018 , and it immediately resonated with me because it is so ...
From Land Acknowledgement to Land Back: Philanthropy’s Role & Responsibility in Returning Stolen Land to Native Communities
Release Date:
02/03/2022
In addition to taking concrete steps to institutionalize racial equity in our policies and practices, we at NorthLight came to recognize that we must engage in a process of decolonization.
Open Society Foundations Announces 2013 Soros Justice Fellows
Release Date:
05/15/2013
... investigative journalists, lawyers, grassroots organizers, policy advocates and scholars who will take on a range of ... investigative journalists, lawyers, grassroots organizers, policy advocates, and...
Cost of Health Care a Burden for Most U.S. Households
Release Date:
04/15/2014
... Linda Blumberg, Ph.D., senior fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute said that she and her ... she said, adding that “lots of things change absent policy changes.” ... Cost of Health Care a...