DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust
Release Date:
02/04/2016
... Community Trust Eighty-five-year-old Luis Cajigas doesn' t need much to keep him happy. Cajigas, known as "el .....
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Pershing Square Awards $5.4 Million to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program
Release Date:
02/16/2016
The Pershing Square Foundation has announced a supplemental gift of £3.7 million ($5.4 million) gift to the Oxford Pershing Square Graduate Scholars Program at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.
Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art
Release Date:
02/16/2016
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia announced a grant of $815,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will be utilized to create a research center for the study of the indigenous art of Australia and the Americas at The...
Rockefeller, JPMorgan Chase Foundation Support 100,000 Opportunities Hiring Fair & Forum in LA
Release Date:
02/24/2016
The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, an employer-led coalition committed to creating pathways to employment for young people, reported that in one day, more than 1,000 youth were offered jobs on-the-spot.
Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Protein Structure That Shows How Viruses Take Over Cells
Release Date:
02/29/2016
The Salk Institute and Harvard Medical School researchers have determined the structure of a protein complex that lets viruses similar to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) establish permanent infections within their hosts, in new research...
New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
03/07/2016
New study published in Clinical Cancer Research details the discovery of a biomarker that puts patients at a higher risk for metastasis of uveal melanoma.
IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
03/11/2016
Indiana University has joined a national consortium, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, to improve the teaching skills of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the diversity of future university...
The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation
Release Date:
04/12/2016
... enlists industry professionals to teach coding in public schools across the city. The Trust is also supporting the ...
Commonwealth Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine?
Release Date:
05/26/2016
About one-third of U.S. and U.K. primary care physicians are dissatisfied with their jobs, recent Commonwealth Fund survey findings show.
Carnegie Sponsors Search for Nation's Favorite Librarians for 2016 I Love My Librarian Award
Release Date:
06/17/2016
Nominations open to the public now through September 19.
Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families
Release Date:
08/22/2016
... of homelessness on the streets, in the shelters and in the schools since the demise of Work Advantage five years ago, ...
City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans
Release Date:
10/07/2016
... Tens of millions of Americans work for companies that don' t provide traditional pensions, 401(k)s or access to .....
Brooklyn Community Foundation Welcomes Nicole Gueron to Board of Directors
Release Date:
10/17/2016
Brooklyn Community Foundation announces the election of Nicole Gueron, co-founder of the law firm Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLP, to its board of directors, effective September 30, 2016.
Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board
Release Date:
11/02/2016
... private university in the country with two public magnet schools on campus... Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to .....
Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education
Release Date:
12/14/2016
More parents today are financially supporting — and paying more — for their children’s college education, but that development also might be exacerbating economic inequality, according to a new study by a University of Kansas professor.
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs
Release Date:
01/06/2017
... coverage and Medicaid expansion -- and that Congress won' t put a replacement plan in place. If that happens, it would .....
Foundation for Child Development Publishes New Index on the Economic Stability of the American Family
Release Date:
02/06/2017
... higher-quality early care and education, access to better schools , nutritious food and health care. The Index also ...
Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature
Release Date:
02/17/2017
... equality in the basic institutions of civic life — schools , housing, health care, policing — remains elusive. ...
MetLife Foundation Sponsors Ballet Hispánico Tour
Release Date:
02/21/2017
Ballet Hispánico en Familia is a 90-minute, fun-filled journey through Latin American dance and culture featuring Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director & CEO Eduardo Vilaro as host, excerpts from Ballet Hispánico's diverse repertory and a Q&A...
With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species
Release Date:
02/28/2017
Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate group distantly connected to monkeys, apes and humans, a USC researcher said