Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative
Release Date:
10/01/2014
... of the Brain Initiative, which the president started in 2013 . Tom Kalil, deputy director for technology and innovation, in the White House Office of ...
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New York State Health Foundation Breaks Down Diabetes Prevention
Release Date:
03/26/2015
... of the medical, diabetes, and public health literature for evaluation studies of interventions published between 2002 and 2013 . The search was undertaken using medical subject ...
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows
Release Date:
04/15/2015
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for .....
Commonwealth Fund Blasts Digital Data Breaches
Release Date:
04/15/2015
... health records were supposed to make life better for patients and doctors – getting rid of bulky and messy ... use it to make discoveries. But those benefits could be for naught if digital medical data aren’t...
Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced
Release Date:
05/11/2015
... the winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research. Established in 2013 as part of a $25 million partnership between the ... year's prize-winners will each...
Brooklyn Community Foundation, OSF and New York Foundation Accept National Impact Awards
Release Date:
05/20/2015
... watchdog of foundations, NCRP inaugurated the awards in 2013 to honor foundations that embody the ideals of ...
NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal
Release Date:
07/06/2015
... and as a result the city will not have to foot the bill for it, the Bond Buyer reports. The nation's first social impact bond — a pay- for -performance vehicle that leverages private funding to .....
Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds
Release Date:
04/28/2016
... Program, which supported graduate-level education for more than forty-three hundred emerging social justice leaders from twenty-two countries between 2001 and 2013 , with the goal of giving emerging leaders the...
Jonas Scholar Finds First Zika Case in the U.S.
Release Date:
06/02/2016
... he might have a disease called “Zika Fever” in 2013 , she was dubious. In her 15 years as a certified nurse ...
Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City
Release Date:
06/10/2016
Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City When he was in his ... to them growing up. Now, as head of the foundation since 2013 , he's directing its $12.4 billion...
NYS Health Foundation President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic
Release Date:
07/18/2016
... one knew the magnitude of what was coming. From 1981 to 2013 , an estimated 1,194,039 people in the United States had ...
Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth
Release Date:
09/23/2016
... Excelencia in Education analysis of federal data. In 2013 , Latinos made up 17 percent of all students in higher ...
Funded by Russell Sage, Study Finds Childhood Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year
Release Date:
11/02/2016
... of kindergarten in 2010 through the end of second grade in 2013 . The results, published in the journal Obesity, provide ...
New Study Examines How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities
Release Date:
11/04/2016
... to grow, a new study released today, Setting the Stage for Community Change: Reflecting on Creative Placemaking Outcomes, offers insights for the field of "creative placemaking" and is a working .....
Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust
Release Date:
11/22/2016
... Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received a $25 million grant — a ... $42 million Helmsley gift made to the Salk Institute in 2013 . That gift established the...
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Uninsured Rates Have Dropped in All States
Release Date:
12/21/2016
... Finds Uninsured Rates Have Dropped in All States Between 2013 and 2015, uninsured rates for adults ages 19 to 64 declined in all states and by at ... points in 48 states and the District of Columbia. ...
Mellon Foundation Supports Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not-for-Profit
Release Date:
12/21/2016
... Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not- for -Profit The Modern Language Assocation (MLA) Commons launched in early 2013 as a platform for communication among MLA members, enabling...
The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/11/2017
... underperforming U.S. environmental movement. Starting in 2013 , Overbrook embarked on an effort to address some of the ...
The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... President Trump had decided to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the 2012 policy that ... House Republicans sabotaged a chance to help Dreamers in 2013 , when John Boehner, the House...
New Study Shows Organic Farming Traps Carbon in Soil to Combat Climate Change
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... excess carbon out of the atmosphere is the prime target for improving the health of our planet. One of the best ways ... carbon sequestration in organic farm soils—though a 2013 letter in the PNAS disputed...