Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper
Release Date:
03/18/2016
... Special Initiative on Offshore Wind, found that prices for electricity purchased from large-scale offshore wind ...
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Commonwealth Study Inspires App to Connect People to Doctors Faster
Release Date:
06/01/2016
The creators of a new mobile app called Akira hope to make healthcare more accessible by connecting people directly with a certified doctor through text or video chat.
Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika
Release Date:
08/19/2016
... at the Rockefeller University and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report in Cell Stem Cell. It has ...
Research to Prevent Blindness Was Key Supporter of Zika Study
Release Date:
09/15/2016
The Zika study, published in the prestigious journal Cell Reports , describes a mouse model developed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis that shows that the Zika virus is detectable in tears.
Bloomberg Philanthropies 'What Works Cities Initiative' Issues Data Management Platform Request for Info
Release Date:
11/22/2016
... Cities Initiative' Issues Data Management Platform Request for Info Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April ... and evidence. The initiative is administered by Results for America (RfA). The What...
United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative
Release Date:
04/28/2017
... Stewardship Initiative to improve antibiotic prescribing for outpatients across New York City, working with seven ... revealing considerable variation in prescribing practices for adult patients with acute...
Atlantic Philanthropies Publishes “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic"
Release Date:
05/31/2017
... intertwined imperatives, exploring the distinct historical development of each, while also highlighting the tensions ...
IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy
Release Date:
06/08/2017
... Wednesday, the tech giant announced the launch of Science for Social Good, a new program that partners IBM researchers ... With the new initiative, IBM announced 12 projects planned for 2017. Each Science...
Casey Family Programs Publishes Report on How Positive Factors Change Child Trauma
Release Date:
06/09/2017
... But in the push to help foster the social and emotional development of children with many adverse experiences early ...
Edna McConnell Clark’s PropelNext Initiative Shows Promising Results
Release Date:
06/12/2017
... the California 2018 cohort suggest a similar trajectory of development . In most instances, PropelNext’s emphasis on ...
Commonwealth Fund: The American Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States
Release Date:
06/14/2017
... Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States On May 24, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives ... Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States ...
Transgender Ban Frozen as Mattis Moves Forward With New Review Of Options
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... Mattis added. The plan will address both the potential for transgender people looking to serve in the military for the first time and transgender troops who already are ...
USAID Announces Over $90 Million In Additional Humanitarian Assistance To Ethiopia
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... Green and Prime Minister Desalegn discussed U.S. support for Ethiopia's economic development , drought response, and food security. .....
Traces of Crime: How New York’s DNA Techniques Became Tainted
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... standard practice at the F.B.I. and other public labs, for making identifications from DNA samples that were tiny or ...
China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that the world economy faces growing risks and uncertainties from countries turning inward on trade and resisting combating climate change, delivering an implicit rebuke to his American counterpart, Donald Trump.
Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, while stressing the urgent need to ... Executive Director of the Consultative Group for International...
The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... has proven to provide impactful innovations for poverty alleviation ," says Abby Maxman, President of ... enshrined officially in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs as something the...
Mayor's Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... 14 percent — targeted households earning about $25,770 for a family of three (which is 30 percent of the Area Median ... to a report released Thursday by the Real Affordability for All coalition (RAFA). . ...
The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern
Release Date:
09/26/2017
As the police have gotten more aggressive about collecting genetic material, they've quietly amassed a giant database of DNA profiles without any laws and little oversight over how they can use it.
Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground For not quite two centuries starting in the mid-1660s, when a ... a church in Upper Manhattan had separate cemeteries, one for white parishioners, the...