Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... You’ve seen the bumper stickers. Buy fresh, buy local. Support the small, diverse, organic (or organic-ish) farm ...
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Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... with key focus areas, most of its grantmaking didn’t support that strategy. Lots of money was going to different ...
NYSHealth Selects Seven Hospitals to Receive Grant Funds to Implement OpenNotes
Release Date:
10/12/2017
... of care across the State." "As the first in the country to support OpenNotes at the state level, NYSHealth sets the bar .....
Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines
Release Date:
10/19/2017
On Thursday, the city’s three library systems — the New York Public Library, which serves Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island; the Queens Library; and the Brooklyn Public Library — will forgive all fines for children 17 and under and unblock...
New York State Health Foundation Awards United Hospital Fund Grant To Study Ways To Improve Discharge Planning
Release Date:
10/25/2017
... care by examining their needs for information and support during the critical moments of the discharge process ...
The Rockefeller Foundation Expands Access to Electricity in India
Release Date:
11/15/2017
The Rockefeller Foundation aims to connect these underserved citizens to sustainable energy sources through their Smart Power For Rural Development initiative.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky
Release Date:
11/20/2017
The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Mario Luis Small Joins Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees
Release Date:
11/27/2017
... a study of how people decide whom to approach when seeking support . Small is a board member of the Spencer Foundation, a ...
Commonwealth Fund Report Shows That Medicaid, Medicare Accounted for 59% of Health Care Revenue for Largest Insurers
Release Date:
12/07/2017
In 2016, Medicare and Medicaid accounted for nearly 60 percent of health care revenues reported by the five largest U.S. commercial health insurance companies (UnitedHealthCare, Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Humana), according to a new Health Affairs study...
Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database
Release Date:
01/09/2018
Michigan State University, supported by nearly $1.5 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will create a unique online data hub that will change the way scholars and the public understand African slavery.
New Tax Law Might Force Newman's Own to Put Itself up for Sale
Release Date:
01/10/2018
... Newman's Own from the hefty fines have garnered bipartisan support ... New Tax Law Might Force Newman's Own to Put .....
Surdna Foundation Announces Over $600,000 in Impact Investing Grants
Release Date:
01/11/2018
Five national organizations awarded grants, advancing the Foundation's $100 million commitment to impact investing
Newman's Own Foundation Launches #Newmanitarian Campaign Asking People to Commit Acts of Kindness
Release Date:
01/30/2018
Newman's Own Foundation is launching a campaign to encourage good deeds that could help make our world a better place.
UJA-Federation To Launch Largest Anti-Poverty Push In Its History
Release Date:
01/31/2018
... various locations across the metropolitan area, one-stop support for the unemployed and under-employed trying to dig ...
A Look At The Building Bridges Program, Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Release Date:
04/10/2018
Building Bridges is one of the arms of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, which in turn is part of the larger, New York-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation that also funds global wellness for children as well as environmental and medical...
William T. Grant Foundation Announces Two New Grants to Better Relate Research to Action
Release Date:
04/13/2018
... Challenge Grant and its Rapid Response Research grants support efforts to better relate research to action on issues ...
Coral Bleaching Is at the Center of New Research Funded by The Zegar Family Foundation
Release Date:
05/22/2018
With a brilliance so stunning and species diversity so vast, coral reefs are perhaps the ocean’s most iconic ecosystem. Home to a quarter of all marine life on the planet, they’re also among its most critical. And they’re in trouble.
Russell Sage Foundation Funded Research Connects Boosting Testosterone Levels To Men Preferring Luxury Goods
Release Date:
07/05/2018
The study supports previous research that connects transient increases in testosterone levels to a rise in behaviors aimed at boosting social rank.
Commonwealth Funded Study Shows Impacts State-based Individual Mandates Would Have in 2019
Release Date:
07/25/2018
The findings are based on the assumption that the state mandates similar to the penalty structure under the ACA before the passage of The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017.
ASPCA Steps in to Rescue Piglets, Llamas, Cats, Dogs From Mendocino Complex Fire
Release Date:
08/09/2018
... and their owners in tremendous risk, and we're proud to support Lake County Animal Care & Control to help rescue and .....