Commonwealth Fund Releases Study on Making Health Data Useful to Patients Through Open APIs
Release Date:
12/07/2016
Use of open APIs for health information can help improve the quality and affordability of health care.
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NY Women's Foundation Co-Hosts Training on Healthy Manhood and Preventing Violence Against Women
Release Date:
12/07/2016
A CALL TO MEN and The New York Women's Foundation hosted a two-day Training Institute in New York on December 5-6, 2016.
Inside Pinkerton, a Low Profile Anti-Poverty Foundation
Release Date:
12/21/2016
What's in a name? Well, the Pinkerton Foundation in New York City draws its name from what was once the nation's oldest and largest security company.
Shatterproof Awarded $600,000 Grant by Helmsley Charitable Trust
Release Date:
01/31/2017
The Helmsley Charitable Trust began making active grants in 2008 to support a wide range of charitable causes, primarily including medical research and health institutions.
A Closer Look at NY Fund for Women and Girls, Co-Founded by NoVo and New York Women’s Foundation
Release Date:
02/09/2017
The NYC Fund for Girls and Women of Color brings together 16 funders. This collaboration isn’t brand new, but it’s the first fund of its kind in the nation and is worth watching closely, especially for how it makes grants.
Foundation for Child Development Sponsors Study that Finds Children Learning English Require Better Support for Academic Success
Release Date:
03/01/2017
Despite their potential, many English learners (ELs) -- who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the U.S. -- lag behind their English-speaking monolingual peers in educational achievement.
Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation
Release Date:
02/22/2017
A recent $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship that helps the nation better understand and address its legacies of slavery, racism and discrimination.
PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem
Release Date:
04/18/2017
... areas is gender equality, which coincides with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to “Achieve ...
Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island
Release Date:
05/15/2017
The NYC jail is a microcosm of everything wrong with America’s criminal-justice system—but may also offer a model for how it can be righted.
Bloomberg, NYS Fund a 9/11 Rescue, Recovery Workers Memorial
Release Date:
05/31/2017
Rescue and recovery workers will get a permanent tribute at New York City's 9/11 memorial, officials said this week. While a design has not been completed, New York state and Bloomberg Philanthropies will underwrite the project.
IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy
Release Date:
06/08/2017
... more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations ' blueprint to address some of the globe's biggest .....
Century Foundation: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Worth Saving
Release Date:
06/15/2017
Is the renewed focus on the manufacturing sector sound economic policy, or as pundits from across the political spectrum have complained, is it just a nostalgic bid for middle-class jobs that are gone for good?
Helmsley Funds Research Collaborative around Type 1 Diabetes
Release Date:
08/18/2017
Scientists at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope have received over $300,000 from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support scientific collaborations to fight type 1 diabetes.
How to Build a Strong Local Food System
Release Date:
08/29/2017
It goes beyond farmers' markets and CSA shares. Before we had ‘local food,’ we just had food. Communities fed themselves with whatever was produced in the region, with farmers selling directly to stores and customers. It was unheard of to truck...
More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... rise along with the floodwaters. According to the United Nations , at least 41 million people in Bangladesh, India and ...
Transgender Students Find Open Door at More Women's Colleges
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Ninotska Love will become one of the first transgender women to attend Wellesley in the school's 147-year history.
Trump's DACA Decision Could Strip Thousands In New York Of Medicaid Coverage
Release Date:
09/06/2017
The Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could strip thousands of New Yorkers of their health insurance, a consequence unique to New York that could focus the debate in Albany when the...
USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals
Release Date:
09/06/2017
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $12.6 million to support the training of 55 doctoral candidates and 52 postdoctoral scholars. Funding is made through NIFA’s Agriculture...
New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Lunch at New York City public schools will be available free of charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year, Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the basement cafeteria of a Hell’s Kitchen elementary school...
Senate’s Obamacare Fixes Would Build on Heavy Lifting by States
Release Date:
09/07/2017
The result is an Obamacare system that’s still vulnerable, but far from the ‘disaster’ Trump and his top health officials describe.