An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools
Release Date:
12/22/2016
... there's been lots of talk about exactly this challenge: How to open up the doors to elite schools that, by some .....
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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty
Release Date:
01/12/2017
... population is expected to be urban by 2050. Figure out how to help the underprivileged in just one of those zones, ...
The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Syrian Rebels' Lessons on Aleppo
Release Date:
01/27/2017
... take away from the loss of Aleppo will likely determine how they move forward—whether they will hold fast to the ...
Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees
Release Date:
02/01/2017
... money. And now we're starting to get a better sense of how it will be used... Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New .....
Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research
Release Date:
03/21/2017
... of DNA changes known to cause autism and investigate how variations in the wiring of the brain can affect the way ...
Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia
Release Date:
04/03/2017
... populations, the consortium hopes to better understand how environmental factors affect the disease and begin to ...
Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75
Release Date:
04/04/2017
... foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How might the ingredients of its success be described? What ...
NY State Health Foundation CEO: 1M New Yorkers Could Lose Health Coverage Under AHCA
Release Date:
05/08/2017
... Lose Health Coverage Under AHCA New Yorkers wondering how their medical insurance will be affected by the health ...
Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution
Release Date:
05/12/2017
... (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), who will explore how environmental and ecological processes shape marine ...
The Army Infantry’s First Women
Release Date:
05/26/2017
... woods from those of earlier generations. That’s just how the Army wants it. After the Obama ...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... whether or not a low-income family finds housing, or how prosperous a neighborhood will be a decade from now. To ...
Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’
Release Date:
06/13/2017
... drops of coffee evaporate. In one paper, they learned how to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now, in a ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View
Release Date:
07/06/2017
... Street View images in an effort to measure whether and how urban areas are changing. In addition to demonstrating ...
Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign
Release Date:
07/11/2017
... and humorous physical challenges that make clear just how easy it is to donate DNA to SPARK, compared with the very ...
Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/01/2017
... are, in fact, working on a meta level, trying to change how the philanthropic or NGO sectors themselves operate, ...
Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years
Release Date:
08/09/2017
... Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. He ...
American Express Grant Supports Student Filmmaking
Release Date:
08/11/2017
... field and at national parks. The documentary illustrates how SCA empowers young people from all backgrounds through ...
Sloan Foundation Supported Survey: Work Can Be Stressful, Dangerous And Sometimes Great
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... worked in all types of jobs. What they discovered about how we work may help inform policymakers looking to grow the ...
Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues
Release Date:
08/16/2017
... in the bonds, which link an investor bonus or penalty to how well the underlying project works. "You take the risk off .....
The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families
Release Date:
08/25/2017
... from the federal Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how states’ participation in the Medicaid expansion ...