How Institutions Take Risks
Release Date:
10/12/2014
... and thinkers, the Rockefeller Foundation pivoted from its core public-health work to the heart-wrenching and ... saving scholars who were seeking refuge from the Nazis. In light of this...
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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans
Release Date:
10/20/2014
... assets into philanthropy. Charities are also benefiting from a giving surge by people in their 50s and 60s, especially those seeking to get their ...
Daphne Foundation President Highlighted as one of "Seven Women Who Change Their Worlds"
Release Date:
11/05/2014
... services to drug addicts, sex workers and homeless women in Coney Island. After Aida Leon, a former sex worker, heroin addict and drug dealer, completed ... the sidewalks of Coney Island. There, with funding...
United Hospital Fund Produces User-Friendly Data Sets to Advance Population Health in New York
Release Date:
11/07/2014
... User-Friendly Data Sets to Advance Population Health in New York The United Hospital Fund today published a compendium of short, easily digestible regional chartbooks ... we’ve heard about time and again...
John A. Hartford Foundation Forges Public-Private Partnership With CMMI to Spread "Hospital at Home" Model of Care
Release Date:
11/14/2014
John A . Hartford Foundation Forges Public-Private Partnership With ... while lowering costs by bringing them hospital-level care in their own homes. It is a version of the program known as .....
Ford Foundation Strives to Boost Medicaid Enrollment
Release Date:
12/01/2014
... BeneStream 039 ;s mission to enroll more low-income empoyees in Medicaid. BeneStream, a health tech startup that helps businesses comply with the ... has announced a $1.5...
Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces New Grantmaking Areas
Release Date:
02/20/2015
... millions of people. This progress, however, has come with a debilitating cost: climate change that results directly from human activity. This anthropogenic effect can have a ... at home, and...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Dedicated to Getting Veterans Back to Work
Release Date:
04/20/2015
... Dedicated to Getting Veterans Back to Work Hope came in the form of the Veteran Integration Program (VIP), a veteran-to-veteran peer-assistance initiative that provides ... participants and their families...
New York Life Foundation Backs Pilot Program for Future Entrepreneurs
Release Date:
04/20/2015
... Backs Pilot Program for Future Entrepreneurs Starting in seventh grade, students will begin to build their applied ... companies that replicate the functions and demands of a real business. All students will...
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal
Release Date:
05/13/2015
... Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal NYC mayor Bill de Blasio will be raising funds ... initial support for the New York City Nepal Relief Effort from the Association for a...
New York Public Schools Fund Struggles to Secure Donations
Release Date:
05/12/2015
... R. Bloomberg and his schools chancellors built into a fund-raising juggernaut, has struggled to attract donations ... June 30, fund officials said. And about half of that comes from two large multiyear grants...
Pershing Square Foundation Grant Will Help Develop a New Way of Tracking Criminal Justice System Performance
Release Date:
05/12/2015
Pershing Square Foundation Grant Will Help Develop a New Way of Tracking Criminal Justice System Performance ... Square Foundation announced today a $3.1 million grant in support of Measures for...
WNYC Celebrates Neighborhood Library Awards Nominees
Release Date:
05/14/2015
... Neighborhood Library Awards Nominees One week from today, the winners of the NYC Neighborhood Library ... announced. Two of the judges, Jacqueline Woodson, who won a 2014 National Book Award for her young...
Niarchos and Revson Foundations announce five winners of 2nd annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards
Release Date:
05/26/2015
... which celebrate the crucial role of local libraries in serving New York City’s diverse communities. The winners emerged from more than 13,000 nominations by New Yorkers, who ... midtown Manhattan. They were...
John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes
Release Date:
06/12/2015
John A . Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes The Y has received a two-year, $860,500 grant from the John A . Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to deliver the ...
Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology
Release Date:
06/17/2015
Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology The Obama administration on Tuesday announced $4 billion in commitments from the private sector, including more than $1 billion from...
Ford and RPA Work to Foster Sustainable Development in Ghana
Release Date:
07/09/2015
Ford and RPA Work to Foster Sustainable Development in Ghana Today, more than 80 leaders will meet in Accra to ... Development Goals (SDGs) in Ghana. Participants from business...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Initiative to Increase Arts Integration in Research Cirricula
Release Date:
08/06/2015
... Foundation Backs Initiative to Increase Arts Integration in Research Cirricula The Alliance for the Arts in ... ArtsEngine program have received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon...
To Boost Job Prospects, Younger Americans Seek Dentures
Release Date:
08/10/2015
... areas that top the nation for unemployment also fare worst in a health measure that can keep people from getting jobs — missing teeth. West Virginia is the ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice-In-Education Initiative
Release Date:
08/27/2015
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia 039 ;s Justice- In -Education Initiative The seminar in 401 Hamilton Hall ... around the wooden table with their professor ranged in...