Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... going back to the previous decade, like the seven- year -old, still-healthy alliance between the nonprofit ...
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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors
Release Date:
09/29/2016
Yale University researchers conducted a study with the Milbank Memorial Fund to learn what the challenges were in implementing a more social services-oriented approach within health departments and across communities.
Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism
Release Date:
11/18/2016
Mark Lilla, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, writes in the New York Times to advocate for a "post-identity liberalism."
Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition
Release Date:
01/10/2017
The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur Charles F. Feeney '56, has made a $7 million grant to The Cornell Tradition, a fellowship program offering distinctive service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the...
Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees
Release Date:
01/23/2017
... a third group, who told him about a crossing that, one year later, would come to exemplify Europe’s refugee ...
Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma
Release Date:
01/31/2017
... chronic illnesses, including asthma. The video follows 14- year -old Angel as the program works to remedy issues at home ...
Mellon Foundation Supports African, Latin American and Native American Collections Research at Princeton
Release Date:
02/14/2017
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Princeton University a grant of $300,000 to support three years of specialist research in targeted areas of the collections as part of the Art Museum’s multiyear Collections Discovery Initiative.
Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia
Release Date:
04/03/2017
... of inflammatory bowel diseases in Asia. The three- year grants will support researchers affiliated with the ...
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens
Release Date:
04/14/2017
The foundation is particularly interested in applicants with training in different fields who want to apply their experience to understanding the role of microorganisms in shaping ocean processes and vice versa, including applicants with experience...
NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing
Release Date:
04/17/2017
... must spend at least 5 percent of their endowment every year on charitable purposes. In Ford’s case, that amounts ...
Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"
Release Date:
04/26/2017
... improve a city or communities’ outcomes. A three-to-five- year philanthropic grant cycle will not allow philanthropy to ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies: Six Things Cities Need to Know About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Release Date:
05/08/2017
... of Autonomous Vehicles Wired magazine named 2016 “the year of autonomous driving,” and CNN says we’ve reached ...
Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution
Release Date:
05/12/2017
... in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution. The three- year awards are intended to help launch the careers of ...
Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries
Release Date:
05/12/2017
... Overall, beneficiaries spent an average of $3,024 per year on out-of-pocket costs. Financial burdens and access ...
Bloomberg Launches Worldwide Urban Public Health Initiative
Release Date:
05/18/2017
... accidents, which kill 44 million people globally each year . Because the majority of the world’s population lives ...
Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis
Release Date:
05/24/2017
... Refugee Crisis The Syrian conflict is now in its seventh year . According to the United Nations High Commissioner for ...
Citi Foundation Announces $4M Youth Workforce Fund: Grant Opportunity for Nonprofits Connecting Young Adults to Employment
Release Date:
05/25/2017
... Progress, the $4 million competitive Fund will award one- year grants of up to $250,000 to community organizations in ...
Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... can cover outright. The good news is that, in just a year and a half since the call came out, the impact investing ...
Bloomberg, Gates, Others Pledge $1.2 Billion to Eradicate Polio
Release Date:
06/13/2017
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has announced public and private pledges totaling $1.2 billion in support of efforts to eradicate polio, including $450 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students
Release Date:
06/28/2017
William T. Grant Foundation supported research at Stanford which found African-American and Latino students who completed self-affirming writing exercises in middle school took more challenging courses and were more likely to enroll in college,...