Pfizer Foundation Supports Vaccine Coverage in Africa to Reduce Child Mortality Rate
Release Date:
09/19/2014
... Committee. The grants will focus on building the capacity of health care systems within the five countries to ensure ...
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UJA-Federation of New York Leads Charge for Creation of a Nonprofit Infrastructure Fund in Repsonse to State Budget Allocations
Release Date:
04/22/2015
UJA-Federation of New York Leads Charge for Creation of a Nonprofit Infrastructure Fund in Repsonse to State ... nonprofits had seen inflation reduce the purchasing power of...
Simons Foundation Partners with Kennedy Krieger’s Interactive Autism Network, Provides $2.18 Million in Funding
Release Date:
08/27/2015
... in Funding The Interactive Autism Network, a project of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, is now partnered with the ... a shared vision to grow, support and engage communities of individuals with autism spectrum...
Ford Foundation Head in India Moves On, Hints at Discord with Government
Release Date:
09/08/2015
... Moves On, Hints at Discord with Government The head of the Indian operations of the U.S.-based Ford Foundation, one of the world's largest ... charities. Since Modi's right-wing...
New York State Health Foundation Sponsors Report on All-Payer Database & Consumer Transparency
Release Date:
09/17/2015
... Council, examines the issues related to the development of regulations and policies for an all-payer database (APD) ... to preserve an expansive vision for the APD and the extent of its powers. More than four...
Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts
Release Date:
09/23/2015
... and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts Some of the world’s most prominent companies are expected to set a long-term target on Wednesday of powering their operations entirely with renewable energy, the...
Ford’s Walker Weighs in on New Rules Allowing Pension Funds to Invest with Conscience
Release Date:
10/22/2015
... Conscience "Today’s announcement from the Department of Labor to allow pension funds to consider the full-range of risks that affect investment decisions – including ... important step toward realizing...
Nathan Cummings Foundation Touted for Broad and Innovative Support for Climate Change
Release Date:
12/09/2015
... Change In Paris, President Barack Obama and the leaders of 19 other countries made energy technology innovation the central priority of international efforts to address climate change. “The ... dominant idea...
Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos
Release Date:
01/21/2016
... Davos The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago was no less than “reshaping the world” — and the gathering of global power players still lends...
Doris Duke Foundation Supports New Website Focusing on Refugees
Release Date:
03/08/2016
... on Refugees Last September, heartbreaking images of the body of a 3-year-old Syrian boy who washed up on a Turkish beach ... global refugee crisis. But it's a big world with a lot of...
Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers
Release Date:
04/13/2016
... The labor-friendly City Council has taken up the cause of home-care workers. Councilman Andrew Cohen, D-Bronx, ... with employers. The bill would create a Division of Paid Care under the recently-established...
Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil
Release Date:
07/28/2016
... New York City-based fund, founded in 1940 with the profits of Standard Oil Co., provided $10 million to Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. to expand renewable energy in Africa. The investment was part of...
Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative
Release Date:
04/04/2017
Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK ... (SPARK) is an online scientific study and community of individuals with autism and their families. Launched just ... over 49,500 people from...
Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel
Release Date:
06/12/2017
... regulatory and governance strategies for the peaceful use of nuclear power . The project articulates, distills, and promotes best ... and proliferation concerns associated with the spread of...
Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies
Release Date:
07/06/2017
... exist. But the man who used the "Tracker" alias, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, can be deposed — and is ... employer, ExxonMobil, misled investors about the impact of climate change. Schneiderman...
Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project
Release Date:
08/23/2017
... being enlisted in what's thought to be the biggest study of the human microbiome—the bacteria that live in and on ... science project by scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,...
In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on Immigration
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... President Trump has proved to be the commander in chief of mixed messages. But even for him, the nighttime tweet on ... on the grounds that a president does not have the power to take such action by himself...
Will New Rockefeller Foundation President Break or Reinforce its Mold?
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... Break or Reinforce its Mold? Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, shared his vision for the New ... York-based foundation’s future, which includes the use of science and technology for...
Witness Warrants Were Misused in Queens and Elsewhere, Court Papers Say
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... in Queens and Elsewhere, Court Papers Say It is one of law enforcement’s most expansive powers: If the authorities believe that someone has knowledge of a crime, they can — under threat of...
Student Sues Columbia Over ‘Deliberate Indifference’ to Harassment Claims
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... to Harassment Claims In the latest allegation of sexual harassment by a high-profile academic, a prominent ... historian at Columbia University has been accused of forcing himself on a 29-year-old female...