Kimberly Roberts
... justice educator and facilitator with over ten years of experience leading students and professionals through ... through education and advocacy. Although a proud native New Yorker, she has spent much time...
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Save the Date: Philanthropy Week in Washington 2014
Release Date:
01/15/2014
... hosted by the Council on Foundations , is a week of activities -- some familiar and others new -- themed around engaging policymakers in our nation's ... across the country visit with their members...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers Insight on Employing Millennials
Release Date:
05/08/2015
... This week, global professional services firm EY released new findings from a global survey about the work-life ... full-time workers in eight countries, and in companies of varying sizes, about what makes...
NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color
Release Date:
10/23/2015
... Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color Question: If funding to support boys and men of ... of color not an equal priority? The fact is that few new...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards its First Resident-Led Grants to Projects in Crown Heights
Release Date:
12/15/2015
... that will receive $100,000 collectively through its new Neighborhood Strength initiative. Grants range from $5,000 to $15,000 and will bolster the work of neighborhood residents, nonprofits, and community...
Russell Sage Foundation-Supported Study Details How The System Fails Grandmothers Raising Kids
Release Date:
01/06/2016
... Fails Grandmothers Raising Kids Increasing numbers of grandmothers across the United States are raising their ... system not designed to meet their needs. For a new study, researchers interviewed 77 African-...
Students with Influence Over Peers Reduce School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations
Release Date:
01/06/2016
... may not lie within rules set by adults, according to new research led by Princeton University. Instead, the ... peers, promote conflict resolution in school. A team of researchers from Princeton, Rutgers...
Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship
Release Date:
02/17/2016
... fellowship to support arts and culture writing in regions of the country that are often underrepresented in the media. The goal of the fellowship program is to foster new discourse about arts...
Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)
Release Date:
02/18/2016
... that when overactivated causes severe insomnia. Expression of the gene, neuromedin U (Nmu), also seems to serve as nature's stimulant--fish lacking the gene take longer to ... term, the results suggest...
Revson Foundation Supports Steinem Program to Address Underrepresentation of Women In Media & Technology
Release Date:
03/28/2016
... Supports Steinem Program to Address Underrepresentation of Women In Media & Technology When Monica Rozenfeld ... Nine years and a few wrong turns later, she is working as an associate editor and giving...
Arabella Advisors Study Finds Global Funds For Fossil Fuels Are On The Decline
Release Date:
02/02/2017
... Finds Global Funds For Fossil Fuels Are On The Decline As the Trump administration threatens to withdraw the US ... to revive a slowing fossil fuels industry , the rest of the world is pulling out of...
PhilTV This Week: March 3, 2017
Release Date:
03/03/2017
... Ford, Warhol and Shelly & Donald Rubin Support Exhibition of Black Women Artists at Brooklyn Museum Open Society ... Do You See Yourself In the First Nations Struggle? Name A New Kind of...
Phil TV This Week April 14
Release Date:
04/14/2017
... 14 PhilTV This Week features guest anchor Prachi Patankar of the Brooklyn Community Foundation, and stories about ... Mellon, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Educational Foundation of America and some Jedi action...
NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation
Release Date:
07/31/2017
... for Transformation The NoVo Foundation is seeking Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for its Radical Hope Fund to support ... moving hearts and minds for change, including creating new strategic platforms and...
Inside Game: A Foundation Supports LGBTQ Leaders in the Halls of Power
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... Game: A Foundation Supports LGBTQ Leaders in the Halls of Power While it was the nation’s highest court that ... to gains at the federal level, these funders were focusing new attention and resources at the...
Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... Preparation. What's Needed Now? It is well known that one of the keys to a high-quality education system are excellent ... Research has consistently identified effective teachers as the most important...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change
Release Date:
10/20/2017
... global advancement on climate action, with hundreds of global businesses and national and sub-national leaders ... on the momentum of the Paris Agreement to initiate new climate pledges,...
Commonwealth Fund Supported Report Shows Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States
Release Date:
12/14/2017
... Act’s major health coverage expansions, according to a new Commonwealth Fund scorecard assessing access to health care. New Mexico’s rate dropped the most between 2013 and 2016, ... insurance on their own...
Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database
Release Date:
01/09/2018
... the website will allow people to search millions of pieces of slave data to identify enslaved individuals and their ... grant from the Mellon Foundation. ''Enslaved' brings new...
Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid
Release Date:
01/09/2018
... Opioid For the first time, scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and collaborators solved ... bound to a morphine derivative. They then created a new drug-like...