U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Union Dues Case
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... to their operations. In Friedrichs, a Los Angeles public school teacher sought to end her payments to the teachers ...
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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards $26 Million in Grants
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... Fund, which was awarded $1.2 million in support of Funders for Housing and Opportunity, a national collaborative committed to improving life outcomes for rent-burdened households and individuals; Seattle .....
Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines
Release Date:
10/19/2017
... until they aren’t: Patrons who rack up $15 in late fees at the city’s public libraries are blocked from taking out ... Loving, a 17-year-old student at Special Music High School , as she stood...
Century Foundation Releases Report on Estimating the Real Cost of Community College
Release Date:
10/24/2017
... in promoting social mobility. This is especially the case for first-generation college students, as well as for non-traditional students and career-transitioning adults. ... state’s Promise Scholarship model,...
New Report Supported By The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Addresses The Future Of Undergraduate Education
Release Date:
12/01/2017
... Of Undergraduate Education Nearly 90 percent of high school graduates can expect to enroll in an undergraduate ... Education, The Future of America provides a framework for helping colleges of every type work...
Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid
Release Date:
01/09/2018
... Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid For the first time, scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and collaborators solved the crystal ...
New Research Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation Tackles College Hunger
Release Date:
01/22/2018
... face the same financial dilemma: pay rent or buy food for dinner. A team of researchers from the University of ... Sara Goldrick-Rab of Temple University and her team at the Wisconsin HOPE Lab , the nation’s...
Supported By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Scientists Create New Therapeutic Gel That Shows Promise Against Cancerous Tumors
Release Date:
02/22/2018
... Gel That Shows Promise Against Cancerous Tumors Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and NC State have created an injectable ... this approach could one day ramp up therapeutic benefits for...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Makes Water Purification Breakthrough
Release Date:
04/03/2018
... levels of sunlight and inexpensive gel technology could be at hand, thanks to an innovation in water purification. ... Texas at Austin, a research team in UT Austin's Cockrell School of...
Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2018 U.S. Mayors Challenge Entry Helps Homeless Store Their Vital Documents Digitally
Release Date:
04/19/2018
... announced the first step in launching an initiative aimed at improving identity services for homeless people. Dubbed the "MyPass Initiative," the ... April 19, officials said in a press advisory...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology
Release Date:
04/27/2018
... of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video ... have made so far is that backscatter can be used only for low-data rate sensors such as...
Bloomberg Philanthropies-Supported Criminal Justice Mentorship Program Scales across Country
Release Date:
05/02/2018
... Philanthropies and oversight from the Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity, the Department of Probation funded ... of Probation. Most of them had already committed at least one felony, were...
App Developed at UVA Improving HIV Care, Finds Study Supported By The MAC AIDS Fund
Release Date:
06/12/2018
App Developed at UVA Improving HIV Care, Finds Study Supported By The MAC AIDS Fund A smartphone app designed to improve care for people living with HIV has increased users’ consistency ... intervention developed...
Russell Sage Foundation Funded Research Connects Boosting Testosterone Levels To Men Preferring Luxury Goods
Release Date:
07/05/2018
... kind, led by Gideon Nave, an assistant marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School , underscore a biological factor at play in the choice ... a single dose of...
UJA-Federation of New York Raises Record-breaking $249 Million in 2017-2018 Campaign Year
Release Date:
07/27/2018
... of New York raised a record-breaking $249.3 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, an increase of ... the previous year. In addition to raising $156.1 million for its annual campaign, UJA raised $55...
Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Researchers Find Alzheimer's One Day May Be Predicted During Eye Exam
Release Date:
08/23/2018
... Exam It may be possible in the future to screen patients for Alzheimer's disease using an eye exam. Using technology ... to what is found in many eye doctors' offices, researchers at Washington...
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: A Conversation about Education with the Gates Foundation’s Bob Hughes
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Robert Hughes has served for many years as an advocate and champion of public ... transitioned from being President of New Visions Public school to becoming the K-12 Strategy Director of the Bill and ... his years...
Newman's Own Foundation Provides Over $1.7 Million to Support Nutrition Initiatives
Release Date:
10/02/2018
... and nutrition. This latest round brings the total grants for this category to almost $3 million in 2018. The funding ... Foundation has been supporting food and nutrition programs for more than 35 years, with...
Supported by The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New Report Finds Even Light Drinking Increases Risk of Death
Release Date:
10/03/2018
... Increases Risk of Death Drinking a daily glass of wine for health reasons may not be so healthy after all, suggests a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Analyzing data from...
ascena Foundation Honors Winners of the 2018 Roslyn S. Jaffe Awards
Release Date:
10/19/2018
... to honor the 2018 winners of the Roslyn S. Jaffe Awards at a luncheon which took place yesterday at Cipriani 42nd ... HERlead Fellowship is a leadership program founded in 2011 for high...