James R. Knickman, Founding President and CEO, Stepping Down from New York State Health Foundation
Release Date:
09/29/2015
Knickman has been with the New York State Health Foundation since May 2006.
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J.M. Kaplan Fund Names Innovation Prize Finalists
Release Date:
09/29/2015
Up to 10 of the finalists will be awarded the J.M.K. Innovation Prize. Winners will be announced in November 2015.
Sarah Burton Appointed as Project Manager for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Marshall Institute
Release Date:
03/09/2016
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) and the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science appointed Sarah Burton as Project Officer on a joint research effort called...
Supporting Emerging Leaders in the Field
Release Date:
06/23/2016
PNY launches our 2016-2017 Young Leaders Breakfast Club, a nine-month cohort-based program for philanthropic leaders in their twenties and thirties.
William Bell, President of Casey Family Programs, Spoke at the Senate Health Committee Hearing on the Opioid Crisis
Release Date:
02/12/2018
Mr. Bell's testimony was among those heard by the Senate Health Committee leading to a budget deal adopted by Congress on Friday which includes what advocates call a landmark compromise to provide an estimated $1.5 billion over 10 years to try to...
JPMorgan Chase Expands Entrepreneurs of Color Fund to Drive Inclusive Economic Growth in South Bronx and San Francisco
Release Date:
02/13/2018
Building on the success of Detroit’s Entrepreneurs of Color Fund, JPMorgan Chase today announced it will expand the fund’s model and create two new funds to help minority entrepreneurs in San Francisco and the South Bronx. The firm is committing...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products (STOP)
Release Date:
03/07/2018
Michael R. Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced it would provide $20 million in funding to launch Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products (STOP), a new global watchdog that will aggressively monitor deceptive tobacco industry...
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Holding off the Hackers, Defending Our Democracy - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP
Monday, April 2, 2018 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
In 2016, the intelligence community sounded the alarm that our elections had been targeted with cyberattacks by Russian state actors with the intent of usurping American voters’ voices and assisting their preferred candidates. Infiltration of...
The Rockefeller Foundation has Announced the Launch of The Communities Thrive Challenge
Release Date:
04/05/2018
The Rockefeller Foundation, in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has announced the launch of the Communities Thrive Challenge, a $10 million initiative to identify and support successful community-driven approaches to expanding...
Policy Experts Discuss Future College Affordability at Century Foundation Gathering
Release Date:
09/27/2018
Foremost among the numerous challenges facing higher education is affordability, particularly disparities and inequities affecting Black and lower-income students who seek to enter college, graduate and pay back significant loan debt. That was a...
Trinity Church Wall Street to Provide Free Legal Workshops for Local Community
Release Date:
07/09/2019
Workshops will assist residents without legal representation in housing court.
New York Life Foundation Awards Grants to Out-of-school Time Programs to Help Middle School Students Transition to 9th Grade
Release Date:
08/05/2019
The New York Life Foundation in partnership with the Afterschool Alliance today announced $1.35 million in new grants, to be awarded to 26 youth development organizations across the country to support middle school youth during the out-of-school...
The Rockefeller Foundation Awards Grants to Fuel Plans for Equitable Investment in Opportunity Zones in Washington, DC, Oakland, Dallas, and St. Louis
Release Date:
09/05/2019
The Rockefeller Foundation today announced $3.7 million in grants that will benefit four U.S. cities to help drive responsible private investment in Opportunity Zones.
Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses - New Report by The Century Foundation
Release Date:
09/12/2019
As public and nonprofit colleges have sought to expand their online course offerings, a major industry has developed to help them with that task.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches Asphalt Art Initiative, Providing Cities How-To Guidance to Transform Streets and Public Spaces with Artwork
Release Date:
10/28/2019
The Asphalt Art Guide highlights art-driven street design projects in cities around the world and provides step-by-step guidance to cities looking to implement their own projects Bloomberg Philanthropies will award grants to 10 U.S. cities for new...
Making NY Fairer for Black Families: New York Community Trust grants back school, health, and housing reforms
Release Date:
11/06/2019
Compared to their white peers, black New Yorkers are more likely to receive poor maternal health care, get suspended or arrested at school, and face obstacles to inheriting wealth.
Rats Replay Memories Forward and Backwards to Make Decisions, Understanding the Memory Process Will Lead to Treatments for Diseases Where Memory is Impaired, Research Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Release Date:
12/10/2019
While making decisions, rats’ brains replay their memories, a process called memory consolidation, researchers report.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Basketball Legend Join Forces for Youth Empowerment and Establish Field of Life
Release Date:
12/18/2019
On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, SNF and basketball legend Panagiotis Giannakis introduced Field of Life, a new nonprofit organization and initiative anchored in Giannakis’s old neighborhood in Southwestern Attica.
Ed Henry to Step Down from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation at Year End
Release Date:
02/12/2020
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced today that after 15 years with the foundation, and 12 years as President and CEO, Ed Henry will step down in December 2020.
Study Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Genetic Link to Extinct Relative of Humans in Four Modern West African Populations
Release Date:
02/13/2020
UCLA computational biologists have discovered that four populations in West Africa can trace about 8% of their genetic ancestry to an archaic hominin, an extinct relative of humans that branched off from the hominid evolutionary tree more than 600,...