Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty
Release Date:
08/18/2015
... and beauty cannot be disregarded or dismissed as a luxury for the well-off or left to a few. We must embrace the arts ...
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Staying True to Donors’ Wishes Beyond the Grave
Release Date:
09/21/2015
Trusts, such as the New York Community Trust, have to ensure money is spent as intended, but things can get fuzzy as times change.
State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care Organizations: Milbank Memorial Fund Support
Release Date:
10/19/2015
... risks. The Milbank Memorial Fund provided support for this report by assisting with its review and ... care regulatory frameworks? State policymakers are looking for evidence and experience to help them answer...
How Stable Are the ACA Marketplaces? Commonwealth Fund President Explains
Release Date:
12/07/2015
... before the ACA passed, and currently covers only about 5 percent of marketplace enrollees. Rather, together with ...
Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
Release Date:
01/07/2016
... grade, my son's friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick ... of children and youth have been excluded from school for disciplinary reasons...
Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record
Release Date:
01/12/2016
... Late Monday night, in a stunning development for a struggling business, that’s pretty close to what the ... runs all three of the outlets, to the nonprofit Institute for Journalism in New Media, part of the...
Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post
Release Date:
03/22/2016
... do good and bad things, including you. You can never know for sure what you would do in another person’s shoes.” ...
Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice
Release Date:
07/15/2016
... these white beliefs were delusional, and in other survey questions whites blithely acknowledged racist attitudes. In ...
Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline
Release Date:
09/09/2016
... Discipline Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor for Equality Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The ... J. Skiba and M. Karega Rausch, she seeks to answer three questions : • Why are some...
Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations
Release Date:
09/09/2016
... within a narrow temperature range. Experiments on these questions dating back 80 years, using rats and mice, have ...
Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer
Release Date:
09/28/2016
... of the genome is transcribed into RNA that does not code for proteins. Two big questions facing scientists are: How much of this ... lncRNAs have been identified in humans, but functions for...
NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member
Release Date:
10/31/2016
It seemed discordant to some critics when, this month, Ford's Darren Walker joined the board of PepsiCo, which makes the bulk of its money by selling sugary drinks and fatty snacks.
Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed
Release Date:
11/11/2016
... a ban on Muslim immigrants), freedom of the press (calling for opening up libel laws to go after critics), the rule of ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn
Release Date:
01/04/2017
... before and an African American woman who has lived there for sixty years. All were there to answer the key question, “What is our shared vision for Crown Heights?” Over the next three hours, they built ...
NYSHealth Foundation Hosts A Conversation With Sean Cavanaugh on the Future of Medicare
Release Date:
03/31/2017
... leading experts on Medicare, to discuss what is in store for Medicare in this rapidly changing health care landscape. ... as the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers...
Nathan Cummings Announces Increased Payout to Respond to ‘Extraordinary Times’
Release Date:
05/03/2017
... ‘Extraordinary Times’ These are extraordinary times. For more than 25 years, Nathan Cummings Foundation’s ... the Environmental Protection Agency and National Endowment for the Arts are being undermined...
Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel
Release Date:
06/12/2017
Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel Questions about how to handle ... to identify regulatory and governance strategies for the peaceful use of nuclear power. The project ...
Unbound Philanthropy is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It?
Release Date:
07/17/2017
... member in 2008, Unbound Philanthropy hasn’t been around for too long. But its laser focus on the immigration issue, ...
Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures
Release Date:
07/27/2017
Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & ... Shakespeare Library has been awarded a four-year, $1. 5 million grant by the Andrew W. Mellon...
Can Humanities Grants to Universities Be a Bridge to Something Bigger? Mellon Foundation Backs Humanities
Release Date:
07/31/2017
... we'll soon see, continues. But Mellon has always intended for its work to reach the larger population. Take news out of ... in conversation about the fundamental qualities—and questions —that make us human...