"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says
Release Date:
12/10/2015
... costs. But the bonds do not help to lessen the size of catastrophe-related losses. . . Also, more on these ...
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Land Rights: From Awareness to Action; Ford Recognized For Long Support of Sustainable Development
Release Date:
12/14/2015
... From Awareness to Action; Ford Recognized For Long Support of Sustainable Development Recently, land rights issues ... rights to safeguard tropical forests on indigenous lands as an important element ...
Century Foundation Releases Proposals to Strengthen ACA
Release Date:
12/15/2015
... Care Act (ACA) has succeeded in enrolling millions of people in health insurance coverage—despite facing a range of obstacles, from political opposition to widespread public ... care system continues to face...
Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record
Release Date:
01/12/2016
... NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record “If newspapers are having trouble turning a ... Philadelphia Media Network (PMN), which runs all three of the outlets, to the nonprofit...
As Blizzard Looms, Morgan Stanley-supported 'Operation Warm' Gives NYC Children Free Coats
Release Date:
01/22/2016
As Blizzard Looms, Morgan Stanley-supported Operation Warm ... announced Thursday that 13,000 young students will receive new winter jackets paid for by private donors. The bulk of the coats will...
Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)
Release Date:
02/11/2016
Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation) ... a proven educational innovation: school integration. A new report from The...
Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%
Release Date:
03/04/2016
... to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20% An alliance made up of 11 major universities across the United States has knocked its goal of graduating more students — including more low-income ... in the group. UIA...
Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art
Release Date:
03/07/2016
... Restrictions on Art Museum-goers tend to be unaware of the vast network of copyright protections that underlie images of much of ... experiments over the last year, it has...
Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas
Release Date:
03/09/2016
... Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas A new study comparing accountable care organizations (ACOs) ... areas, are nonprofit, or have a relatively small share of Medicare patients are more likely to...
Atlantic Philanthropies Funds Camden Coalition to Establish National Healthcare Center
Release Date:
03/09/2016
... National Healthcare Center The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a ... who experience poor outcomes despite extreme patterns of hospitalizations or emergency care,...
NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements
Release Date:
03/17/2016
... bus. Chinese student activists stand defiantly in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square. Pro-life advocates rally under the dome of the US Capitol. When we think of social movements, these .....
Century Foundation Report Recommends Universal Child Allowance
Release Date:
03/17/2016
... with more than 12 million American children—16.5 percent of all children—currently living in poverty. But according to new research out today from TCF’s Bernard L. Schwartz ... scenarios, and reveals: A...
Climate Adaptation Fund, Supported by Duke Foundation, To Enable Conservation Projects In Urban Centers
Release Date:
04/04/2016
... managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society is exploring new methods for helping wildlife in the United States to ... the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This year’s round of grantmaking will extend the...
Hartford Foundation Study Gets Attention on ‘National Healthcare Decisions Day’
Release Date:
04/18/2016
... 16 every year, offers a chance for people to discuss end- of -life care decisions with their families, putting aside the ... care physician at Southwest Medical Associates. The day of discussion arrives on the...
Arcus Foundation Report Reveals Trans Discrimination Not Limited to Bathrooms
Release Date:
05/13/2016
... space that presents a distinct challenge to the hundreds of thousands of people nationwide trying to live authentically in their true gender. A new report reveals transgender women and all...
Commonwealth Fund, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and John A. Hartford Foundations Combine Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs A coalition of five national health foundations has announced the launch of a collaboration aimed at transforming care delivery for ... ill patients with the...
Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year
Release Date:
08/11/2016
... Beat Youth Homelessness This Year For most kids, the end of summer means back-to-school shopping and hanging up swimsuits in exchange for new textbooks and class schedules. But for the 2.5 ... in regularly or...
Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children
Release Date:
09/07/2016
... for Poor Children During their long, languid summers, lots of children forget the lessons they learned in school. But ... have time or money for camps or enrichment activities. Now new research suggests that...
Ford and MacArthur-Backed Survey Finds That Young Voters From Newer Immigrant Families Lean More Liberal
Release Date:
09/09/2016
... with families who have been in United States longer, a new GenForward poll shows. Eighty-seven percent of those age 18 to 30 who are immigrants or who have parents ... those who were brought to the United...
Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS
Release Date:
09/23/2016
... tell scientists on Earth? The world is about to find out as experts are currently analyzing fungi grown from microbe ... an investigation designed to look into different kinds of microbes collected from the...