Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom
Release Date:
05/10/2017
... pests, and how to better manage her finances. The messages are part of FarmerLink, a pilot project set up by a ...
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With Support from Carnegie, New Science Standards Deliver Students from Textbooks to ‘Real-World' Applications
Release Date:
05/19/2017
... Education in 2014, the Next Generation Science Standards are state mandated for K-12, and according to the New Jersey ... during their school years and beyond and the standards are a way to break down those...
Bloomberg Writes on His Philanthropy's Public Health Projects
Release Date:
06/01/2017
... fascinating occurred, a reminder that for all the ways in which we seem to be sliding backward, we’re ...
Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel
Release Date:
06/12/2017
... solutions to their highly radioactive used fuel. In what ways should countries be incentivized to articulate and ...
Bloomberg-Supported Coal Documentary, “From the Ashes,” to Air June 25
Release Date:
06/20/2017
... cost.” That scene — and the general message — are from a new documentary, “From the Ashes,” the first ... globe, it also makes its presence known in more-targeted ways . . . Bloomberg-Supported Coal Documentary...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View
Release Date:
07/06/2017
... Nikhil Naik, Scott Duke Kominers, and their collaborators are hoping to transform the way scientists study urban ... images in an effort to measure whether and how urban areas are changing. In addition to...
Morgan Stanley Lights Up Times Square for the New York Women’s Foundation
Release Date:
07/20/2017
... of The New York Women’s Foundation for 24 years and we are thrilled to be showcased on their iconic billboards at ... approach to corporate philanthropy and finding dynamic ways to support and highlight...
The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Funds Contemporary Dance
Release Date:
08/11/2017
... in June. The performance actively engages its audience in ways that are delightful to audiences new to contemporary dance and ...
Rockefeller’s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities
Release Date:
08/17/2017
... employed by critics of green building projects that are expensive or seen as overly-formulaic. The idea: That ...
Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth
Release Date:
08/25/2017
... anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when they’re not doing the job for which ... the organization was 50 percent more likely to part ways with the executive than others...
Labor Day: New York Lawmakers on The State of Labor In 2017
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... labor contracts. Looking ahead, city and state lawmakers are expressing optimism that they’ll be able to advance ...
Democratic Group Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Efforts to Undermine Obama Health Care Law
Release Date:
09/05/2017
For years, Republicans successfully battered Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act.
Opinion: The Urban Revival Is Over
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... — and the ethnic, racial and sexual diversity — that are emblematic of cities. Established corporations and ... even engendered a new crisis of success, whose symptoms are runaway gentrification, soaring...
Opinion: A Bipartisan Approach to Stabilizing Our Nation’s Health Insurance System
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... partisan efforts, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are working together on something all sides can agree upon: ... is an obvious place to start. Nearly 22 million Americans are caught up in the volatility...
High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns
Release Date:
09/14/2017
When the corporate foundation at German engineering giant Siemens went looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant applications. Instead, it used a hot new format for foundations: a prize...
Study: Giving Leads to Happiness
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are obvious. Recently, however, a neurological study ... generosity changed the activity in people’s brains in ways that increase feelings of...
The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... City’s streets in the 19th century, people have sought ways to make it easier, more efficient, and safer to get ... push to modernize airports and other transit hubs), there are a plethora of ideas out there...
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way ...
Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... diseases (CVDs) such as heart disease and stroke are the number one cause of death worldwide. In 2015 alone, ... Outcomes for NCD sufferers in LIMCs, it should be noted, are considerably worse than the...
Skoll, Ford and Others Work with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors on How to Listen More to Nonprofits & Speak Less
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... recognized that while among their grantees there are “many organizations today…helping to solve seemingly ...