Peterson Foundation Cited in 'Public Worry Over Budget Easing'
Release Date:
02/10/2016
... with less and less concern. The drop-off in measures of concern over the deficit come, ironically, as the ...
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JPB Foundation Partners with Others in Support of Energy Efficiency for All
Release Date:
02/12/2016
JPB Foundation Partners with Others in Support of Energy Efficiency for All Energy costs can impose a ... to combat this adversity in 12 states with a combination of private and public funds. It is building up...
Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art
Release Date:
02/16/2016
... New Center to Study Indigenous Art The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia announced a grant of $815,000 by the Andrew W. ... in the College and Graduate School of...
UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'
Release Date:
02/18/2016
... may his memory be for a blessing, used to receive hundreds of envelopes from charities. Every month, he would work through the stacks of solicitations and joyfully write out checks for $5, $10 or ... came to...
An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation)
Release Date:
02/22/2016
... the stage at the Ford Foundation to celebrate the release of a new book by Saru Jayaraman, an outspoken leader in the ... New Standard for American Dining,” paints a grim picture of the food business today:...
Study: Metabolism Protein Found to Also Regulate Feeding Behavior in the Brain (JPB Foundation)
Release Date:
02/26/2016
... in the Brain (JPB Foundation) The molecular intricacies of hunger and satiety, pivotal for understanding metabolic disorders and the problem of obesity, are not yet fully understood by scientists. .....
Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art
Release Date:
03/07/2016
... Restrictions on Art Museum-goers tend to be unaware of the vast network of copyright protections that underlie images of much of Modern and contemporary art, until they try...
Atlantic Philanthropies Funds Camden Coalition to Establish National Healthcare Center
Release Date:
03/09/2016
... National Healthcare Center The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a ... who experience poor outcomes despite extreme patterns of hospitalizations or emergency care,...
Despite Legacy Connections, Rockefeller Family Fund Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments
Release Date:
04/04/2016
... Fossil Fuel Investments One by one, the descendants of John D Rockefeller, the Gilded Age oil baron, are ... the fossil fuels that made the family rich. On the heels of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in 2014,...
Nathan Cummings Foundation Selects Loren Harris as Vice President of Programs
Release Date:
04/19/2016
... Cummings Foundation Selects Loren Harris as Vice President of Programs The Nathan Cummings Foundation announced that ... inclusion, will join the Foundation as Vice President of Programs. Harris, who will...
U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance
Release Date:
05/31/2016
... Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance In its annual survey of high net worth business owners, U.S. Trust found that ... but most entrepreneurs wouldn’t consider any other...
F.B. Heron's Clara Miller on Changing Operating Models to Expand Effectiveness and Impact
Release Date:
06/10/2016
... out on Heron’s current journey, we did so with the idea of building incentives into our own operating model that ... As noted above, we realized that the strict segregation of “giving grants” (program side)...
Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships
Release Date:
07/08/2016
... "Are Not a Privilege." The op-ed was by Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation, and it discussed what he called ... unpaid internships, because I am, improbably, a member of "the media," and...
Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy
Release Date:
08/22/2016
... the case that the conflict can be contained, the meltdown of the Syrian state has sent wave after wave of chaos into the wider world — spawning a new generation of terrorists and warlords and...
Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change
Release Date:
09/06/2016
... Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois. Guan and his colleagues conducted a research ...
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize
Release Date:
09/07/2016
... at a stage when traditional funding is lacking. As part of the program created around the Prize, winners will be ... audiences. Applicants must have between 2 to 8 years of experience running their own...
Ms. Foundation Releases New Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America
Release Date:
09/15/2016
... report, Raising Our Nation , highlights the true cost of the impact that a lack of access child care has on working mothers, especially low-income women of color. With ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions
Release Date:
09/19/2016
... the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge . Each of the three-minute shorts, which feature interviews with mayors, artists and cultural leaders working together to develop risk-taking public art...
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices
Publication date:
09/2016
... Evaluation Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which ... learned? Considering these numerous questions in light of benchmarking data about what other foundations are doing ... investment in evaluation work, and the usefulness of evaluation information. Findings in the report are based ...
Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors
Release Date:
09/29/2016
... Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to focus more on population ... violence-free neighborhoods. Three years after the launch of...