How America Gives Special Report: Breaking the Charity Habit
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... But the Chronicle analysis is in line with several other studies . . . How America Gives Special Report: Breaking the ...
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‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism
Release Date:
12/08/2017
... Truth of Our Racial Divide and chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She defines white rage as the ...
Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term
Release Date:
12/11/2017
The report, "Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in New York City," which was funded by The Clark Foundation, urges Mayor Bill de Blasio to make boosting community college graduation rates a key part of his second term agenda.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Partners with Lumina Foundation to Address Racism on College Campuses
Release Date:
12/11/2017
The Lumina Foundation has announced grants totaling $2.5 million in support of community-building efforts designed to promote understanding, tolerance, and healing on college and university campuses. The foundation also will partner with Rockefeller...
Enabling Sustainable Investment in Social Interventions: A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools
Release Date:
02/02/2018
New study by The Commonwealth Fund highlights Medicaid managed care plan and provider investment options available for states to address social drivers of health.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President
Release Date:
02/07/2018
... College, to a major rebuilding of the African American Studies department at Yale University, from the poetry ...
Teagle Foundation Names Andrew Delbanco Next President
Release Date:
03/22/2018
... Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. He will succeed Judith ...
Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Announces 31 Winners of Fellowships for Important Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Release Date:
04/25/2018
$6.2 million in philanthropic support from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The United Hospital Fund Releases Report on Positive Impact of Home Health Care
Release Date:
04/30/2018
The report explores patients’ refusals of Home Health Care Services, on the under-examined issue of patients who refuse home health care services when they are discharged from inpatient care.
Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences
Release Date:
05/14/2018
The honor recognizes Tschinkel’s mathematical contributions, which focus on problems at the interface of algebraic geometry and number theory.
Rita Allen Foundation Announces Its 2018 Class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Release Date:
07/10/2018
The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2018 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, recognizing seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research has the potential to lead to groundbreaking new discoveries and advance human health.
New Grant from Mellon Foundation Launches Boston Classical Music Initiative
Release Date:
09/27/2018
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $2.5 million grant to New England Conservatory, in consortium with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, the Community Music Center of Boston, and the string education...
Joel Wallman Named Director of Research at Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Release Date:
02/20/2019
... in its many manifestations. Recent grants have supported studies of drug-trafficking violence in Mexico, changes in ...
New York State Health Foundation Publishes Review of NY State Laws Regarding Surprise Bills
Release Date:
02/26/2019
Bipartisan support is swelling for a federal fix to combat "surprise" bills, which often occur when patients receive out-of-network care in an emergency or don't realize a specialist isn't covered by their insurer. The New York State Health...
SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition
Release Date:
02/21/2019
... that bridges classroom learning in mathematics, social studies , and language arts with the practical research and ...
Greg Ratliff named VP at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Release Date:
04/04/2019
... University, while also completing graduate work in Urban Studies at MIT. He is a Board member at Domini Impact Equity ...
William T. Grant Foundation Seeking Applications for Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
Release Date:
06/18/2019
... grants programs support high-quality field-initiated studies that are relevant to policies and practices that ...
Championing Colombia’s LGBTI Movement: Latest Report from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Release Date:
02/18/2021
The LGBTI Movement’s Spiral Trajectory: From Peace Processes to Legal and Juridical Gains and Back Again, a case study of Colombia’s LGBTI movement.
Recording: Turning the Tide: (Re)Claiming Belonging & Power for People of Color in Philanthropy
Turning the Tide: (Re)Claiming Belonging & Power for People of Color in Philanthropy Before experiencing it firsthand, philanthropy is commonly perceived as a space primarily dedicated to charitable giving and volunteerism, albeit with...
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2013
What Does it Mean to ‘Do’ Policy Work in a Foundation?
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 -
7:45am to 11:00am
”Public Policy Work” in foundations is like the proverb of the elephant being described by several blind men — each has a very different description of what it is based on their personal experience of it. Is it government relations? Is it funding...