Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia
Release Date:
11/17/2015
... on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study dementia. The new organization, the Global Brain Health Institute, will be ...
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Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper
Release Date:
03/18/2016
... Delaware released a report showing offshore wind energy in New England would be far less costly under projects that are ... 33 percent less than previous offshore wind contracts in New England by 2023. That...
Newly-Named Soros Fellows for 2016 Include Six Indian Americans
Release Date:
04/14/2016
... The 18th annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans were announced April 12 and included six Indian ... the 30 recipients. The graduate school Fellowship for New Americans — for immigrants and...
Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign
Release Date:
04/19/2016
... James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support ... Foundation, announced the campaign Monday night at the New World Center in Miami Beach...
Ford Foundation"s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy
Release Date:
05/12/2016
... Investing on Philanthropy Impact investing can lead to new strategies for entrepreneurs and mission-driven businesses. That means room for new people to receive investment. For the leaders of large ...
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Obamacare Is Helping Millions Get Needed Healthcare
Release Date:
05/25/2016
... are getting healthcare they couldn’t previously get, a new nationwide survey indicates. And consumers are broadly satisfied with the new coverage, despite some cost challenges and an ongoing ...
Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged
Release Date:
06/28/2016
... Sage Foundation. Jones-Correa and McCann used a new survey, the Latino Immigrant National Election ... analysis from other leading scholars, are contained the new edition of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation...
Supported by Commonwealth Fund, Study Shows Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test
Release Date:
07/18/2016
... Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test A new UCSF study finds that some of the most popular apps for ... popular mHealth apps are basically useless, according to a new study out of the...
NYCT, Jonas Center, John A. Hartford and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Highlighted in Health Affairs
Release Date:
07/20/2016
... the Affordable Care Act. The BLS notes that the supply of new nurses entering the labor market has increased in recent ... RNs who are retiring will create opportunities for many new nurses. .. NYCT, Jonas...
Supported by Rockefeller and Bloomberg, Climate Finance Project Finds Solutions for Low-Carbon Growth
Release Date:
07/26/2016
... to solve these worldwide challenges. It is engineering new solutions and supporting the development of new finance instruments that unlock private investment for ...
Carnegie Corporation Names Robert Rosenthal Director of Information Technology
Release Date:
08/01/2016
... all aspects of IT, including: selection and deployment of new applications; oversight and upgrades of systems; ... management; support of the design and implementation of a new website and intranet; and...
William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans
Release Date:
09/19/2016
... school, seeing them as the quickest route to jobs. A new study finds the streamlined, focused curriculum that ... is also the reason many poor students drop out, however. A new study of 150 black youths from...
Supported by Verizon Foundation, Three High School Students Graduate from 'Girls Who Code' Program at NJIT
Release Date:
09/27/2016
... "Girls Who Code" summer Immersion program offered at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Makhdoom, Bryant, ... and Cohen were among 40 young women from throughout New Jersey who...
Co-Authored by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing
Release Date:
10/11/2016
... we wanted to be catalytic—to take risks to prove new models, so that larger funders with less risk tolerance ... adopt them, too. We focused most of our funding on seeding new organizations and pilots in the...
Ford-Supported Survey Finds Black, Hispanic Youth Less Likely To Get Money From Parents
Release Date:
10/06/2016
... smaller expenses, than do whites or Asians, according to a new GenForward poll. And more than half of millennials ... the poll released this week. This information comes from a new GenForward survey of young...
Supported by Ford Foundation, GenForward Poll Shows Clinton’s Edge With Young People Crosses Racial Lines
Release Date:
10/25/2016
... former secretary of state will help people like them, a new GenForward poll shows. Clinton’s largest advantage is ... how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of a new generation... Supported by Ford...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to Mayo Performing Arts Center 2016-2017 Season
Release Date:
11/03/2016
... the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2016-2017 season is made possible, in part, by a grant the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a ...
Covenant Foundation Funds Expansion of Shinui, the Network for Innovation in Part-Time Jewish Education
Release Date:
11/08/2016
... Network for Innovation in Part-Time Jewish Education Four new Jewish learning agencies – Builders of Jewish ... Jewish Education. The expansion coincides with Shinui’s new partnership with The William Davidson...
Amsterdam News Profiles Harlem Native George Suttles of the John A. Hartford Foundation
Release Date:
02/16/2017
... George Suttles joined The John A. Hartford Foundation as a new program office. The foundation is a private, nonpartisan ... health systems. The foundation is also keeping abreast of new innovations in health...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Female Playwrights at Centenary Stage Company
Release Date:
04/06/2017
... Women Playwrights Series is back at Centenary Stage, with new plays from writers from all over the country. Centenary ... Fawcett and Michelle Kholos Brooks, and distinctive new plays that will feature...