Laura Packer Named Executive Director of Howard Gilman Foundation
Release Date:
07/07/2014
... Before joining the Dodge staff in 2001, she was the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’ s executive director, a position she held for 13 years. ...
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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals
Release Date:
07/24/2014
... organizations to prepare future principals for the city' s schools. Among the stipulations of the foundation' s grant: a significant number of graduates from the city' s .....
Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative
Release Date:
10/01/2014
Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration' s Brain Initiative The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it has recruited new federal agencies and a number of universities, ... Simons...
Wallace Foundation Announces $40 Million Initiative to Help Build Audiences in the Arts
Release Date:
10/02/2014
... to build audiences through a variety of ways, including new programs as well as nontraditional venues. The ...
Carnegie and MasterCard Foundation Headline African Higher Education Summit
Release Date:
10/06/2014
... a call to action. The summit will mark the beginning of a new agenda for higher education in Africa,” says Dr Tendai Murisa, director of the summit’ s lead organiser TrustAfrica. The African Higher Education...
Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps
Release Date:
11/03/2014
... Causes Consider Their Next Steps The Arcus Foundation’ s latest effort in support of gay and lesbian issues began ... speaks to a bubbling uncertainty among the movement’ s philanthropic vanguard. After a...
Verizon Foundation to Support STEM Programs in 80 Schools
Release Date:
12/05/2014
... for professional development for teachers or to leverage new technologies — like 3D printing, robotics or coding — ...
Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College
Release Date:
03/16/2015
... with LaGuardia for five years through the company’ s 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, a program offering management education and support services to new and aspiring entrepreneurs. The gift will nearly...
Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising
Release Date:
03/20/2015
... Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising A new study by Philly Political Media Watch finds that during ...
North Star Fund Launches Campaign for NYPD Reform
Release Date:
03/24/2015
... Launches Campaign for NYPD Reform Mayor de Blasio has a new police problem on his hands — only this time from his ... in the NYPD — and will hit up many of the mayor’ s top donors for its efforts. The “Let Us...
Johnson & Johnson Makes $30 Million Commitment to USAID to Fight Tuberculosis
Release Date:
04/01/2015
... approval program. Bedaquiline was among the first new classes of antibiotics approved by the FDA in close to ... five decades. USAID is hoping that Johnson & Johnson’ s latest commitment will spur further...
Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research
Release Date:
04/10/2015
... cells most susceptible to the disease - and help devise new prevention and therapy. At the present time, treatment ...
Covenant Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Health and Well-Being of Jewish Teen Girls
Release Date:
04/14/2015
... women and men took a risk and launched Rosh Hodesh: It’ s a Girl Thing! We wanted to offer a new teen-girl-centric model of Jewish education, one that ...
Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U.S. Starts with Preschool
Release Date:
04/30/2015
Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U. S . Starts with Preschool Publicly funded preschools across ... enrolled in the lowest quality programs, according to a new report released Wednesday by...
William T. Grant Foundation-Funded Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying
Release Date:
05/01/2015
... Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying New research suggests that the consequences from being ... mental health in adulthood than originally thought. What’ s more, the impact may even be worse...
Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Research Makes Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine
Release Date:
05/07/2015
... May 6, 2015 in Nature, the scientists report using these new stem cells to develop the first reliable method for ...
City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools
Release Date:
06/29/2015
... Statistics show that by 2020, there will be 1.4 million new computer science jobs, but only 400,000 computer science students. It’ s time our education system prioritizes the skills these jobs ...
Are Too Many Seniors Taking Antidepressants?
Release Date:
07/31/2015
... at more than twice the rate that younger adults do, a new study finds. The worry of previous decades—that America’ s seniors weren’t receiving attention for mental health ...
Newman's Own Foundation Launches Fellowship Program
Release Date:
08/04/2015
Newman' s Own Foundation Launches Fellowship Program Newman' s Own Foundation announced its first formal class of Fellows. ... designed to expand, enhance, and diversify the pipeline of new...
Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box'
Release Date:
08/14/2015
... than three years. As he explained to the Leading into New Communities re-entry council, “My driver’ s license was automatically suspended. I couldn’t vote in ...