Verizon Foundation: Innovative Learning Program Addresses Lack of Women in STEM Careers
Release Date:
07/24/2017
... percent. Enter Verizon, which is addressing the need for more women in STEM careers by reaching middle-school girls ...
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Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders
Release Date:
07/25/2017
... a first step to developing treatment drugs that operate more like rifles than shotguns. “The drugs we have now are ...
Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint
Release Date:
08/08/2017
... Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National ...
Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative
Release Date:
08/09/2017
... Stephanie Strom, David Barber, Dan Barber, and many more around solutions to food waste. The evening will feature ...
Sloan Foundation Supported Survey: Work Can Be Stressful, Dangerous And Sometimes Great
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... Dangerous And Sometimes Great If you think your job is more stressful than it should be, you're not alone. Americans .....
Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... Foundation to digitize items from the BAM Hamm Archives. More than 70,000 individual items are now accessible online ...
Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact As more investors seek to use their capital as a tool for social ...
He Played the Long Game: David Rockefeller's Philanthropy and Legacy
Release Date:
08/22/2017
... key figure in the annals of modern civil society. What’s more , according to those who knew him well, philanthropy ...
Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project
Release Date:
08/23/2017
... With better understanding, scientists might be able to more easily prevent and treat these diseases. . . Simons ...
A Golf Center Grows in Harlem
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... up the tree-lined fairway. He outdrove his opponent, a far more seasoned player, but proceeded to lose the hole and, ...
CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... to reform the program, continued to cost the company more than it could afford. . . CareConnect Pulling Out Of New ...
Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth
Release Date:
08/25/2017
... over a three-year period, the organization was 50 percent more likely to part ways with the executive than others ...
As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... "As horrifying as the images are coming out of Texas, it's more heartbreaking to know that the disaster recovery .....
Tree-Killing Beetles Spread into Northern U.S. Forests as Temperatures Rise
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... insects' range could reach Nova Scotia by 2020 and cover more than 270,000 square miles of forest from the upper .....
How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... with successful businesspeople—should have been more on top of things. In particular, he felt the board’s ...
Opinion: Learning from Harvey and Sandy
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... Rita on the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, when many more died. Reconstruction remains riddled with delays, ...
Should Kids Be Sedated for Dental Work?
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... sometimes sedated. Ideally, it makes them less anxious and more cooperative. They may swallow a liquid sedative or ...
Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... is criticized. The New America Foundation has received more than $21 million from Google; its parent company’s ...
NY State Health Foundation Report: FQHC Utilization of State & Federal Loan & Scholarship Programs to Support Clinician Recruitment
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... regardless of insurance status or income. Operating at more than 650 service sites in New York State, FQHCs are a ...
Canada Wants a New NAFTA to Include Gender and Indigenous Rights
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... and second on the list was to make the 23-year-old pact “ more progressive.” By that, the government meant not only ...