Century Foundation Fellow Comments on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status
Release Date:
08/12/2016
... in Higher Education, which operates four colleges in six states as well as an online degree program, will have to ...
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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... in people, place and regional identity across Southern states . Few national foundations support marginalized ...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... After fits and starts going back to the previous decade, are local and community news sites ready to get serious about ... can produce the same eye-catching data visualizations that are routinely published by...
Rockefeller Foundation and New York City Join Forces to Fund Internships at Cultural Organizations
Release Date:
09/09/2016
... sector to be lacking. While the city’s residents are 33 percent white, according to the 2010 United States census, the cultural work force is 61.8 percent white. ...
Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors
Release Date:
09/29/2016
Yale University researchers conducted a study with the Milbank Memorial Fund to learn what the challenges were in implementing a more social services-oriented approach within health departments and across communities.
Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
Release Date:
09/30/2016
Voluntary summer-learning programs can help narrow academic achievement gaps between children from low-income families and those from high-income families, a report from the Wallace Foundation and the RAND Corporation finds.
Governor Cuomo Announces Nearly $21.6 Million for Eight Supportive Housing Projects
Release Date:
10/21/2016
... for homeless individuals and families. All eight projects are part of Governor Cuomo's historic $10 billion commitment ... "With the creation of these supportive housing units, we are helping ensure...
Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary
Release Date:
11/01/2016
... instead of being used to feed the hungry. In the United States , families trash about fourth of the food they buy, at ...
Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families
Release Date:
11/16/2016
... one of the largest private foundations in the United States , today welcomes community, civic, and business leaders ...
Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project
Release Date:
11/18/2016
... and 619 unique dance works that have toured to all 50 states and Washington, D.C., reaching over 2.7 million ...
Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients
Release Date:
12/09/2016
... High-Need Patients Experience Health Care in the Unites States (20 pages, PDF), found that while 95 percent of the ...
Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia
Release Date:
12/09/2016
... of the CEOs of large, staffed foundations in the United States believe foundations have the potential to make a ... responding to a survey we fielded believe that foundations are making a significant...
Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead
Release Date:
12/15/2016
... “war on drugs” will create some serious conflicts with states that are rapidly moving toward legalization of marijuana... ...
Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness
Release Date:
01/10/2017
The project will, among other things, help establish a state-of-the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees
Release Date:
02/01/2017
... Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist...
Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens
Release Date:
02/08/2017
Dimple Belani has been named one of two students in New York State as the top teen in volunteering by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.
Fund for the City of New York Supports Conceptualization of Underground Maps and Models
Release Date:
02/15/2017
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting information from interested parties to inform a Concept Development Study (CDS) that will assess the current state and future direction of information standards for modelling, mapping, and managing...
Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... meet the nation's needs in a shrinking world. And parents are beginning to understand that there are real benefits to teaching their children a second or .....
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness
Release Date:
03/03/2017
... gains have been made in this area. In the United States , for example, the Foundation Fighting ... poor countries affordable cataract surgery. Cataracts are the main cause of blindness for half of the 40...
ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide
Release Date:
03/16/2017
... Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) are doing their part to help farmers raising animals—as ... and state funding opportunities available to farmers who are investing in animal welfare certification...