Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project
Release Date:
04/13/2015
... Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities ...
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JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good
Release Date:
05/21/2015
... designed to address global economic challenges. The new think tank released a groundbreaking inaugural report, ...
Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education
Release Date:
06/01/2015
... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include .....
Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd
Release Date:
06/04/2015
... should highlight a more surprising possible engine of new employment for Americans: China. China’s middle ...
Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research
Release Date:
06/11/2015
... that drive cancer drug resistance and pave the way for new treatments. “Cancer treatment has seen amazing ...
John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes
Release Date:
06/12/2015
... research that has been shown to reduce the number of new type 2 diabetes cases among Medicare-age individuals by ... of 173 local Y associations, to reach a total of least 1 ,124 of each Y's program sites...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients
Release Date:
06/16/2015
... Doris Duke Impact Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $ 1 .6 million to 20 new grantees. Since April 2014, the foundation has awarded a ...
Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology
Release Date:
06/17/2015
... commitments from the private sector, including more than $ 1 billion from institutional investors for clean-energy ... — and in many cases more than 10% — to investments in new energy over the next five years...
Helmsley Charitable Trust and Sloan Foundation Back Data Science Collaboration
Release Date:
07/08/2015
... and interactive. Think Google Drive with a brain. The new funding comes from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ...
$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies
Release Date:
07/17/2015
$ 1 .25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to ... Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) program, a new initiative to expose first-year undergraduates to rich ... activities that are known...
Citi Foundation and Technoserve Partner for Economic Opportunity in Africa
Release Date:
07/20/2015
... of Africa’s youth living on less than US$2 per day. The new partnership will address these problems by drawing on the ...
To Boost Job Prospects, Younger Americans Seek Dentures
Release Date:
08/10/2015
... need has spurred oral care professionals to respond with new ways to make dentures quickly and inexpensively to help ...
Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty
Release Date:
08/18/2015
... by the court to commission artwork to decorate its new building. At the time, some asked whether it was right to ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts
Release Date:
08/19/2015
... Texts The University of Oklahoma is the recipient of a $ 1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the ... Open Data resource for providing resources and support of new scholarly educational...
D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years
Release Date:
08/27/2015
... charter schools or to organizations, including the New Schools Venture Fund, that support charter schools.... ...
A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?
Release Date:
08/28/2015
... commemorate the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Although many people will tout the city’s ...
Carnegie-Backed Study Explores Adolescent Girls' Knowledge of HPV and Sexuality in Western Uganda
Release Date:
09/02/2015
... and Sexuality in Western Uganda Globally, about 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer and about 274,000 deaths due to ... adult women. This is projected to increase to 90% by 2020 [ 1 ]. The human papillomavirus...
Ford and Atlantic Back Education Policy Think Tank
Release Date:
09/04/2015
... in this report, and is advising states, including New Hampshire, on putting it into practice.... Ford and ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research
Release Date:
09/17/2015
... Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson ... research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk...
Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts
Release Date:
09/23/2015
... its modest origins on American college campuses. The new members include Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, ...