Dyson Foundation Backs Service Week in the Mid-Hudson Region
Release Date:
05/15/2015
Omega Service Week is an annual community building event in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
Site Search
- resource provided by the Forum Network Knowledgebase.
Search Tip: Search with " " to find exact matches.
F.B. Heron Foundation Leads Foundations Toward 100 Percent Impact Investment
Release Date:
07/02/2015
The F.B. Heron Foundation has made a bold, public commitment to move 100 percent of its assets to impact investments by the end of 2017.
Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?
Release Date:
07/02/2015
... efficient appliances work supported by Climate Works this issue still largely remains under the radar. It's high time .....
Palette Fund Helps Launch TRUTH Campaign to Spur Storytelling Movement for Trans Youth
Release Date:
08/05/2015
TRUTH combines public education, guidance for families, support and community-building for young people to address the hostility and stereotypes transgender and gender non-conforming youth often face.
Bank of America and Feeding America Partner to Tackle Hunger in America
Release Date:
09/01/2015
... help individuals who face hunger in America. For every $ 1 donated through Give A Meal, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation will give $2 more, up to $ 1 .5 million – giving donors the opportunity to...
NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High
Release Date:
11/02/2015
Climate change, inequality and a broken criminal justice system are the issues du jour, and are also, increasingly, the focus of some of the nation’s largest philanthropies.
Ford and Luce Foundations Support Scholars Bringing Fresh Eyes to Well-worn Topics in SE Asia
Release Date:
11/23/2015
... When it comes to writing about the long-contentious issue of hydropower dams in Cambodia, there is little ground ...
Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)
Release Date:
02/19/2016
A recent Center for Strategic and International Studies event, 'Impact Investing: An Opportunity for Development?,' brought together a panel of experts to discuss impact investing and its potential to address global issues.
Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050
Release Date:
05/19/2016
Older women, minorities, especially Latinos, most at risk; aging baby boomers contribute to increase.
Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building
Release Date:
07/05/2016
... President of the Ford Foundation, has gone so far as to issue this brave statement about Ford’s historical practice ...
CEO Writes Op-Ed on Why JPMorgan Chase & Co. Is Giving Employees a Raise
Release Date:
07/12/2016
Over the next three years, we will raise the minimum pay for 18,000 employees to between $12 and $16.50 an hour.
Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... the decision. The university’s capital campaign raised $ 1 .5 billion from 2003 to 2007, significantly surpassing its stated fundraising goal of $ 1 billion. A 2009 study found that the University of Georgia ...
Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients
Release Date:
12/09/2016
... their conditions and avoid costly hospital visits, an issue brief from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Based on a ...
Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries
Release Date:
05/12/2017
... To inform discussion of possible changes to Medicare, this issue brief looks at beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs by ...
William T. Grant Publishes How Social Science Research Can Improve Youth Outcomes In The Real World
Release Date:
05/17/2017
Researchers who want their work to matter in policy and practice should begin by identifying the questions of greatest relevance and then bring the highest standards of theoretical and methodological rigor to those questions, William T. Grant...
Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting
Release Date:
06/05/2017
GroundTruth has a fellowship program to support journalists in all media, including photographers, documentary filmmakers, radio reporters and podcasters. To date, the project has granted about 150 fellowships of varying durations and dollar amounts.
Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel
Release Date:
06/12/2017
... The American Academy has been addressing this issue with a long-term project on the Global Nuclear Future. ...
Sarah Eagle Heart to Receive 2017 American Express NGen Leadership Award
Release Date:
07/26/2017
Sarah Eagle Heart, Oglala Lakota, CEO of Native Americans in Philanthropy is the recipient of the 2017 American Express NGen Leadership Award, honoring her as an emerging leader under age 40 who has already demonstrated significant impact in...
Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites
Release Date:
08/08/2017
The Legal Services Corporation published a comprehensive report and accompanying toolkit for its Statewide Website Evaluation Project, which assessed the quality of centralized legal information websites in every state, the District of Columbia, and...
Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Mayo's pain program is one of a few around the country to address the emotional, social and psychological aspects of pain and reduce patients' reliance on addictive medicines. But as the nation faces an opioid epidemic, there needs to be more of...