Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A.
Release Date:
04/15/2014
... of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N.R.A. and punish those politicians who fail to ...
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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making
Release Date:
05/22/2014
... be constructed high enough to block major storm surges from flooding the Financial District and also generate enough ... to the study expected to be released today by the city’ s Economic Development...
De Blasio unveils 30-member task force charged with overhauling NYC’s job-training and workforce-placement programs
Release Date:
05/20/2014
... force that will be charged with overhauling the city’ s job-training and workforce-placement programs. Speaking from the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, the mayor said the city’ s...
Open Society Foundations Award Fellowships to 14 Visionaries Working to Reform Criminal Justice in the United States
Release Date:
05/14/2014
... Fellows working on a range of criminal justice issues, from solitary confinement to DNA databases to police ... the justice system,” said Ken Zimmerman, director of U. S . Programs at the Open Society...
CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high
Release Date:
05/30/2014
... and growing, the CDC says. That number includes 138 cases from Ohio, where the biggest outbreak is ongoing – and ...
Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash
Release Date:
06/13/2014
... United States Advisory Board of Doctors Without Borders from 1989 until 2010, and served on the board of Rockefeller ...
Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia
Release Date:
06/19/2014
... world,” says a report calledOutsourcing for Social Good from Telus International, a Canadian outsourcing firm, and ...
Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies
Release Date:
06/23/2014
... Math Studies Four universities will share $2.4 million from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a three-year, ...
Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation's New Strategy
Release Date:
07/02/2014
Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation' s New Strategy Brooklyn Community Foundation, which ... entrepreneurs, and leaders together to discuss Brooklyn’ s future: the pressing needs of its...
New Supporting Organization to Oversee "Grand Bargain" Funds
Release Date:
07/06/2014
... be part of a new nonprofit, the Foundation for Detroit' s future, which will administer the $366 million in private ... of a "Grand Bargain" to save the Detroit Institute of Art' s...
Helmsley Trust Grant Gives Educators A Voice In Common Core Discussions
Release Date:
07/21/2014
... A Voice In Common Core Discussions A recent grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust to America Achieves Inc. ... The $1.7 million to grant to support the group' s Teachers and Fellowship program will...
American Households Lost More Than One-Third Of Value Over Past Decade
Release Date:
07/26/2014
... The study, conducted as part of the foundation' s Great Recession Initiative, found that between 2003 and ... net worth for the typical household declined by 36 percent from $87,992 to $56,335. The study...
Financing the Social Sector
Release Date:
09/15/2014
... Social Sector Despite the huge success of this summer' s ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and various crowd-funding ... sector really needs is to grow the overall funding pie from its current 2 percent of GDP to...
Primary Care Doctors on the Front Lines of Medicine Are Burning Out
Release Date:
10/20/2014
... on the Front Lines of Medicine Are Burning Out It’ s no secret that med students, with their demanding workload and punishing schedule, have it rough. A study from the Annals of Internal medicine — entitled “...
MasterCard Foundation Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
11/07/2014
... accelerate the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa' s (AGRA) effort to improve markets, soils, and access to ... storage facilities for their crops to help uplift them from poverty,” said Dr Agnes...
Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate
Release Date:
11/20/2014
... of big money in the fight for immigration reform. Here' s a look at four of those wealthy donors, which have given a ... leading up to what is sure to be a landmark announcement from the Obama...
Elton John and Darren Walker on Race, Sexual Identity and Leaving the Past Behind
Release Date:
12/01/2014
... Race, Sexual Identity and Leaving the Past Behind It’ s hard to imagine two people coming from worlds as different as those of Elton John and Darren ... John was staying. Surrounded by large photos of Mr. John...
Research to Prevent Blindness Funds Stem Cell Research
Release Date:
12/18/2014
... James Funderburgh said. Implanting the patient' s own stem cells, extracted from the patient' s healthy eye, initiated regeneration of healthy corneal .....
New Report Offers Framework to Analyze Effects of Potential Changes to the US Food System
Release Date:
01/14/2015
... of Potential Changes to the US Food System To aid U. S . policymakers and other stakeholders who make decisions about the nation' s food system, a new report from the Institute of...
Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free
Release Date:
01/16/2015
... systems that could be vulnerable to attack. That’ s why Microsoft is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, ... cities over a period of time to share what we’ve learned from operating some the world’...