Simons Foundation Continues Quest to Understand and Treat Autism on Both Ends of the Spectrum
Release Date:
07/19/2016
... for Knowledge (SPARK). The goal is to gather DNA samples from 50,000 patients and their biological families, allowing ...
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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names 17 Recipients of 2016 Clinical Scientist Development Awards
Release Date:
07/22/2016
... funding to physician-scientists who are one to five years into their first faculty appointment to support their ... research careers. Engaged in a broad range of areas, from HIV studies in Africa to the use of...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Gives $5.5M to Launch Mobile Simulation Initiative for Rural Emergencies
Release Date:
07/27/2016
... Nebraska Medical Center has received a $5.5 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to ...
Scientists Supported by Simons Foundation Determine How Birds Soar to Great Heights
Release Date:
08/12/2016
... the turbulent environment of a rising column of warm air from the sun baked surface of the earth. But exactly how ...
Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row
Release Date:
08/16/2016
... hundreds of capital cases, and has spared 125 offenders from execution. In recent years, Stevenson has also argued ...
Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika
Release Date:
08/19/2016
... don’t show symptoms when infected with Zika, aside from a fever or rash. Increased incidence of Guillain-Barré ...
Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures
Release Date:
08/22/2016
... Recent decisions by giant health insurers to pull back from Obamacare exchanges across the country could make this ...
Carnegie's Kim Lew Voices Concerns on Low-Return Environments for Foundation Endowments
Release Date:
08/24/2016
... foundations are facing tough choices about eating into their endowments or cutting activities, after their ... ultra-low interest rates and disappointing returns from hedge funds and other alternative...
Rockefeller Foundation's Boltz: Take a Fluid Approach to Build Fresh Water Resilience
Release Date:
08/26/2016
... to divert water to places it is not meant to go, or away from areas to which it naturally flows... Rockefeller ...
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Sickest Americans Are Paying More for Care, Getting Less
Release Date:
08/31/2016
... Despite that higher spending, however, a new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund finds that those with the ...
Century Foundation Report Maps the Effects of a $15 Minimum Wage on Food Insecurity
Release Date:
09/01/2016
... than $40,000 per year, consistent access to food is far from a given. Food is a necessary expense, of course, but ...
Mellon Foundation Supports Festival That Will Show Sneak Preview of PBS "Hamilton" Documentary
Release Date:
09/06/2016
... of "Hamilton's America," a documentary film that delves into the life of Alexander Hamilton and the making ... transforming Alexander Hamilton's biographical history into a critically-...
JPB, Rockefeller Support New Initiative, 'Reimagining the Civic Commons'
Release Date:
09/08/2016
... overall investment of $20 million with another $20 million from local sources, this initiative will improve civic assets ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Details its Mission-Aligned and Impact Investment Strategy
Release Date:
09/16/2016
... investing, both drafted with thoughtful input from members of its board, Investment Committee, outsourced ...
Bloomberg Awards $10 Million for Women Coffee Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
09/23/2016
... will enable an additional twenty thousand women to benefit from and participate in Africa's economic growth through .....
Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars
Release Date:
09/26/2016
... support of the first cohort of scientists. Awards ranging from $600,000 to $1.8 million, including indirect costs, will ...
Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated
Release Date:
09/26/2016
... with the method already being used to treat conditions from epilepsy to depression. But what really happens when ...
Zegar Family Foundation Supports 'Sunday in the Park' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal at City Center
Release Date:
10/04/2016
... McGill and is grateful for additional support from the Zegar Family Foundation... Zegar Family Foundation ...
2016 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Finalists Announced
Release Date:
10/07/2016
... expert 32-member Selection committee chose the finalists from a pool of 11 semifinalists following an intensive ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Donates $50M to Museum of Science
Release Date:
10/18/2016
... Everyone around here knows Michael Bloomberg as the kid from Medford who went on to do big things. He built a ...