Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience
Release Date:
01/28/2015
Rockefeller' s Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience Judith Rodin’ s new book, The Resilience Dividend, begins with her surveying .....
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Ford Foundation Joins Bipartisan Coalition to Change Criminal Justice System
Release Date:
02/20/2015
... found at least one thing they can agree on: The nation’ s criminal justice system is broken. Koch Industries, the ... liberal issues group, are coming together to back a new organization called the Coalition...
Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark
Release Date:
03/12/2015
... and AeroFarms, together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), announce ... in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ into the world’ s largest indoor vertical farm...
MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa
Release Date:
03/17/2015
... formal jobs or explore opportunities in agriculture. The new program is noteworthy not only for its scope, but for its ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing
Release Date:
03/19/2015
... and then distribute a portion every year. But in today’ s world, this structure faces some challenges. The ... prompting many in the foundation world to operate in new ways — and with approaches that could...
Jonas Center Releases Homelessness Report Targeting Female Veterans
Release Date:
03/26/2015
... transferrable career skills and difficulty adjusting to new self-identities in civilian culture.... Jonas Center ...
Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'
Release Date:
04/03/2015
... knock over their grande latte, and audibly mutter, "What' s the point?" This problem is particularly acute among ... $515,000 to technology and media organizations to "support new work to...
Atlantic Awards $14.8 Million to Transform the U. S. Health Care System
Release Date:
04/06/2015
Atlantic Awards $14.8 Million to Transform the U. S . Health Care System Boston-based consumer advocacy ... Americans. The grant will support Community Catalyst' s "health system transformation"...
Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017
Release Date:
04/10/2015
... Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U. S . Coal Plants By 2017 The Sierra Club and Michael ... coal-fired power shut down or slated for closure in the U. S . in the next two years. Coal plants are...
JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good
Release Date:
05/21/2015
... designed to address global economic challenges. The new think tank released a groundbreaking inaugural report, ... Volatility: Big Data on the Financial Ups and Downs of U. S . Individuals, that uses...
Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education
Release Date:
06/01/2015
... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation' s new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include ... arts into engineering curricula as part of each campus' s effort...
Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd
Release Date:
06/04/2015
... President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U. S . in WSJ OpEd The 2016 presidential-campaign season will ... all sorts of familiar proposals to create jobs in the U. S ., but candidates who really...
Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research
Release Date:
06/11/2015
... that drive cancer drug resistance and pave the way for new treatments. “Cancer treatment has seen amazing ... a reality, thanks to the Gerstner Family Foundation’ s generous gift....” Gerstner Family...
John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes
Release Date:
06/12/2015
... the John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to deliver the YMCA' s Diabetes Prevention Program to older adults. The program ... research that has been shown to reduce the number of new type 2 diabetes cases...
Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology
Release Date:
06/17/2015
... — and in many cases more than 10% — to investments in new energy over the next five years. These foundations ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust and Sloan Foundation Back Data Science Collaboration
Release Date:
07/08/2015
... and interactive. Think Google Drive with a brain. The new funding comes from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ...
$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies
Release Date:
07/17/2015
... undergraduate curricular initiatives including UMD’ s First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) program, a new initiative to expose first-year undergraduates to rich ...
Citi Foundation and Technoserve Partner for Economic Opportunity in Africa
Release Date:
07/20/2015
... growth in four sub-Saharan countries. Citi Foundation’ s African Youth and Women’ s Business Development programme will develop business ... of Africa’ s youth living on less than US$2 per...
To Boost Job Prospects, Younger Americans Seek Dentures
Release Date:
08/10/2015
... need has spurred oral care professionals to respond with new ways to make dentures quickly and inexpensively to help ...
Carnegie-Backed Study Explores Adolescent Girls' Knowledge of HPV and Sexuality in Western Uganda
Release Date:
09/02/2015
... and Sexuality in Western Uganda Globally, about 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer and about 274,000 deaths due to ...