Simons Foundation Among Backers of $28 Million Autism Treatment Study
Release Date:
07/29/2015
... with autism spectrum disorders are treated. The Yale team will collect data in Connecticut from preschoolers and ...
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JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices
Release Date:
11/04/2015
... Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices To parents of picky eaters across the country, the idea that ... in restaurants might seem like a pipe dream. But according to new research published today in the...
Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas
Release Date:
03/09/2016
... (ACOs) that include hospitals in their networks to those that do not finds hospitals that are in urban areas, ... small share of Medicare patients are more likely to participate in ACOs than other hospitals...
Nathan Cummings Foundation Selects Loren Harris as Vice President of Programs
Release Date:
04/19/2016
... than 20 years experience challenging structural barriers to equality and creating economic opportunity and social ... Harris, who will begin work on May 18, will report to the Foundation’s President and CEO,...
Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors
Release Date:
05/11/2016
... into the use of forced medication at a city hospital. A team including Kate Pastor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Abigail ...
Alfred P. Sloan, Time Warner 'Fast Track Grant' Goes To Film That Explores Science and Technology
Release Date:
06/07/2016
Alfred P. Sloan, Time Warner 'Fast Track Grant' Goes To Film That Explores Science and Technology Today Film ... Held during the LA Film Festival, Fast Track is designed to help producer-director teams...
Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia
Release Date:
06/17/2016
Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia Anti-pipeline activists from across the country met in Atlanta this week to talk strategy. The summit brought together two groups that ... Those...
Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer
Release Date:
09/28/2016
... actually functional? And does it play a role in disease? A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) screened thousands of non-coding RNAs to find those that were expressed at high levels in...
Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary
Release Date:
11/01/2016
... Globetrotting chef Anthony Bourdain will be adding to his frequent flier miles, as he takes on the issue of food ... Variety has learned. Zero Point Zero Production, the team behind Bourdain's PBS series...
Philanthropy 101: Re-Thinking Power Beyond the Grantmaking Role
Release Date:
02/14/2017
... Philanthropy 101 series was designed for an audience new to the philanthropic sector. For the fifth module on power, the facilitators pushed participants to think beyond power in a grantmaking role. The...
Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies
Release Date:
02/15/2017
Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits ... for eye problems have mild conditions, and recommends ways to help those patients get the right level of care. The ... adults with private...
Why the Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People—and How They Did It
Release Date:
05/19/2017
... approached the foundation’s Talent and Human Resources team and asked us to create a professional development program for graduates of ... BPI, which gives incarcerated men and women an opportunity to...
Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies
Release Date:
07/06/2017
... Investigation Intensifies "Wayne Tracker" cannot be forced to testify under oath. He does not exist. But the man who ... Tillerson, can be deposed — and is increasingly expected to be — as New York...
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists team...
Filling New York Harbor with Millions Of Oysters to Fight Pollution
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Filling New York Harbor with Millions Of Oysters to Fight Pollution Nearly every weekday trucks pick up 4 tons ... for the Billion Oyster Project. Peter Malinowski and a team of students and employees use them—an...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria parasites, which live in the insects and infect ... feed on human blood. Building mosquito resistance to the parasite would reduce the need for...
New Initiative Aims to Have Every New York City Public School Student See a Broadway Show
Release Date:
10/10/2017
New Initiative Aims to Have Every New York City Public School Student See a ... teamed up with the New York City Department of Education to launch the first year of Broadway Bridges, an initiative that aims...
The Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Reaches 95 Participants With New Additions
Release Date:
11/01/2017
... What Works Cities (WWC), a $42 million program to foster data analytics in cities, has added Athens, ... Colorado; Gainesville, Florida; and Palmdale, California to its growing list of participants. The cities...
Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing
Release Date:
11/02/2017
Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing Want to wear your password on your sleeve? Computer scientists ... the University of Washington can make it so. A research ...
New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors
Release Date:
11/08/2017
... Ten years from now, Americans born in 1960 will be able to start collecting their full Social Security retirement ... The new findings, made by a University of Michigan (U-M) team using data from long-term...