Rockefeller Foundation Managing Director Robert Garris Heads to Schwarzman Scholars
Release Date:
08/27/2014
... for which he won the Embark.com Award for “Innovative Use of Information Technology.” Garris received his ...
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Former Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation VP to Lead LISC NYC
Release Date:
09/18/2014
Sam Marks is the new executive director of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation's New York City program.
Rockefeller's Rodin Honored for Urban Development Work
Release Date:
10/16/2014
... to be one of America's most creative entrepreneurs in land use during the first half of the 1900s. This year marks .....
The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Unemployment
Release Date:
12/09/2014
The report highlights key employment insights and is the second in the Working Paper Series.
Bloomberg's Investment in Renewable Energy Instrumental in Phase Out of the United States' 200th Coal Plant
Release Date:
07/16/2015
... a major Iowa utility, has committed to phase out coal use at six of its plants in the state, marking the 200th coal ...
Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science
Release Date:
10/16/2015
The Overdeck Family Foundation supported research showing a marked increase in math achievement for children using a program called Bedtime Math. The research appeared in the Oct. 9 edition of Science.
Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
New research findings may lead to the treatment of blinding eye diseases using a patient’s own corrected cells as replacement tissue.
Commonwealth Fund Brief Documents ACA’s Costs for Low- to Moderate-Income People
Release Date:
03/18/2016
The Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reductions, available to low-to-moderate-income people in silver-tier marketplace plans, substantially lower deductibles, out-of-pocket spending limits, and copayments for a range of key health services, a new...
Public-Private Partnership With Ford, Surdna, Niarchos, Bloomberg, Mellon, and Rockefeller Award Placemaking Grants Totaling $11 Million
Release Date:
12/09/2016
... range from $100,000 to $500,000, will support efforts to use the arts and culture to strengthen the social, physical, ...
Ford's Darren Walker Writes, "Let America Be America Again"
Release Date:
01/06/2017
President of the Ford Foundation Darren reflects, "for as much progress as we have made, America has yet to fully live up to its promise and founding aspiration to be a nation of liberty, dignity, and justice for all. Yet this noble vision remains...
Charles Nuñez, Community Advocate at Youth Represent, Was Only 17 but Charged as an Adult
Release Date:
05/10/2016
... They physically assaulted anyone who didn’t pay them to use the phone.” He was strip-searched over 100 times. He ...
Seven Bridges Brings The Simons Foundation’s Genome Diversity Project Dataset to the Cloud
Release Date:
04/12/2017
Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced that it has made the Simons Genome Diversity Project (SGDP) dataset available for analysis by researchers via the Seven Bridges Platform.
With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity
Release Date:
04/25/2017
... born with--are transitioning socially, which means they use pronouns, names, and clothing associated with their ...
Heineken Just Put Out the Antidote to That Pepsi Kendal Jenner Ad
Release Date:
04/27/2017
Two strangers with polar opposite views meet in this Heineken ad, which gets political in a way that Pepsi would do well to consider next time.
Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund
Release Date:
06/12/2017
Agnes Gund is partnering with the Ford Foundation, in the creation of a new fund, titled the Art for Justice Fund, and has sold a very valuable painting to kickoff the fundraising. She has asked other collectors to do the same, in the hopes of...
AARP, Commonwealth Fund Release State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Seniors
Release Date:
06/15/2017
... alarm, but it also provides a range of tools states can use to spark new solutions and create systems that are ...
Mayor de Blasio Signs Sweeping Legislation to Curb Smoking, Tobacco Usage
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... and prospective tenants; (6) prohibiting smoking and the use of e-cigarettes in common areas in multiple dwellings ...
The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced
Release Date:
09/05/2017
The 2017 NCRP Impact Awardees have been announced.
Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... new lab, dubbed the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, is planning to use its proximity to Cambridge’s booming biotech sector to ...
Opinion: Disaster Preparedness Requires a 211 System; New York City Still Doesn’t Have One
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... I’m constantly on the lookout for better ways to use software tools and information management practices to ...