Simons Foundation Creates Center for Computational Astrophysics, Appoints David Spergel Director
Release Date:
11/16/2015
... CCA will be recruiting outstanding scientists from the U. S . and abroad for both junior and senior positions and will ...
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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement
Release Date:
12/10/2015
... the spirit of giving gets lost. Peter says of the op-ed’ s origins, “We’d been hearing, ‘How do you measure, measure, measure?’ And that has been bothering us for quite some time.” Not that there’ s...
New York Community Trust Gives $5.1 million to 42 Nonprofits in the City, Nation
Release Date:
12/11/2015
... City, Nation The New York Community Trust, the City’ s community foundation, is spending $5.1 million on dozens of ... eye using flat-screen technology; improve the State’ s career and technical education...
Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals
Release Date:
12/15/2015
... amygdala, a small structure at the front end of the brain' s temporal lobe, has long been associated with negative ... with fear. But new research from Michael Platt, the James S . Riepe University...
Aetna Foundation: Closing the Health Divide, One Community at a Time
Release Date:
12/16/2015
... not through your family history or by visiting your doctor' s office, but by looking at something as simple as your ... For example, look at the city of Boston. According to U. S . Census data, individuals...
Rippel Foundation: What We Discovered at “The Frontiers” about Financing and Leading Improvements in Health
Release Date:
12/18/2015
... can help accelerate those efforts, this project allowed us to test and confirm ReThink Health’ s learnings to date, build on them, and share those ...
Case Study: Designing More Affordable and Effective Health Care (Commonwealth Fund)
Release Date:
02/09/2016
... Care Innovation. Spiraling health care costs in the U. S . place untenable burdens on an increasing share of ... we want is affordable clinical excellence, and that’ s what is distinctive about what we’re doing...
Milbank Memorial Fund: How Do State Health Policy Meetings Make A Difference?
Release Date:
02/10/2016
... health based on evidence and experience provided by us , we would hope it would be the RSG. . . Milbank ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits
Release Date:
02/11/2016
... waves among our foundation peers, garnering us the prestigious 2015 Impact Award from the National ... $1 million to our Community Fund last year. Now it’ s full steam ahead. The launch of three core focus...
Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients
Release Date:
02/24/2016
... if spread nationwide, can improve the performance of the U. S . healthcare system. Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three ...
Duke Foundation Gives $1.5M for Arts to Increase Understanding of Muslim Societies
Release Date:
03/04/2016
... of contemporary Muslim societies. Through DDFIA' s Building Bridges Program, eight nonprofit organizations in the U. S . will receive grants to plan and implement projects that ... audiences. Grant...
This Is How to Put Neighborhoods at the Center of Grantmaking
Release Date:
03/04/2016
... to ask the question, “How can we as the borough’ s community foundation make a deeply positive impact on the ... with money.” Through this dialogue, communities showed us that the solutions to challenges they...
Flying the Colors: Empire State Building Lights to Honor Jonas Center
Release Date:
03/17/2016
... a simple idea to “care for those who care for us ,” Barbara and Donald Jonas ten years ago sold a portion ... That humble idea has blossomed to become the nation’ s leading philanthropic funder of graduate...
Open Society Foundations' 6-Month Paid Paternity Leave Leads Generous-Parental-Leave Club
Release Date:
03/30/2016
... large and small. Starting in January, 2014, George Soros’ s global organization announced that all of its 800 employees ... chose to use it. This benefit extends to the foundation’ s U. S ...
Marsh & McLennan, Tow Foundation Honored Alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda
Release Date:
03/30/2016
... & McLennan and member of the John Jay College Foundation' s Board of Trustees, will be honored for his service to the ... 6:00 PM at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. "Miranda' s passion for...
Nathan Cummings Urges Firstenergy Shareholders to Vote for Proposal Regarding Disclosure of Lobbying Expenditures
Release Date:
05/06/2016
... that you will be asked to vote on at the Company’ s May 17, 2016 annual meeting. We urge you to vote FOR ... communications. It also requests disclosure of FE’ s membership in and payments to tax-exempt...
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BUILD Health Call for Partners
Release Date:
06/02/2016
... in low-income neighborhoods. We hope you can help us spread the word to your members about this opportunity to ...
Why Should We Care About Tax Policy?
Release Date:
06/14/2016
... debt, and taxes. They raise the question for all of us , “Who pays how much and for what?” It could be easy to ... especially in the nonprofit sector. Our nation’ s special role for charities is enshrined in...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Releases New Book on the Value of Diversity
Release Date:
10/25/2016
... many directions, honest questions and questioning, to move us as a nation toward envisioning our diversity as an ...