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Students with Influence Over Peers Reduce School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations
Release Date:
01/06/2016
... may not lie within rules set by adults, according to new research led by Princeton University. Instead, the ... University engaged groups of influential students in 56 New Jersey middle schools to spread...
Commonwealth Fund Supported Report Shows Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States
Release Date:
12/14/2017
... the first three years following the Affordable Care Act’ s major health coverage expansions, according to a new Commonwealth Fund scorecard assessing access to health care. New Mexico’...
Commonwealth Funded Study Shows Impacts State-based Individual Mandates Would Have in 2019
Release Date:
07/25/2018
... mandates. Massachusetts implemented its mandate in 2006. New Jersey, Vermont, and the District of Columbia passed ... and DC were not included in the Commonwealth Fund’ s list of states with individual...
Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid
Release Date:
01/09/2018
... bound to a morphine derivative. They then created a new drug-like compound that activates only that receptor, a key step in the development of new pain medications. A release from the university notes .....
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology
Release Date:
04/27/2018
... Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be ... Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor in the UW’ s Paul G. Allen School of Computer...
Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players
Release Date:
08/09/2018
... Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players In a new study, researchers found no evidence of early onset ... of retired professional hockey and football players. The new research adds important...
Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night
Release Date:
04/05/2019
Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial ... Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night The new analysis of a 40-year record of more than 70,000 ... show that more needs to be done, according...
Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Helps Fund Research to Find Personalized Treatment for Crohn's Disease
Release Date:
05/03/2019
... Fund Research to Find Personalized Treatment for Crohn' s Disease To model human health and disease, organ-on-a-chip ... upstream initiator of gut inflammation. Now, thanks to a new $1.8 million grant...
Grantmakers in the Arts Selects Edwin Torres as New CEO
Release Date:
08/16/2017
Grantmakers in the Arts Selects Edwin Torres as New CEO Edwin Torres, deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, has been selected ... in the Arts (GIA) board of...
11
May
2023
Demystifying Trust-Based Philanthropy Part 2 of 6 - Does Unrestricted Funding Automatically Make a Funder Trust-Based?
Thursday, May 11, 2023 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
... core grantmaking practices such as multi-year unrestricted funding and streamlined paperwork, the day-to-day work of ... to: Clarify the misperception that giving unrestricted funding is an automatic qualifier...
13
Nov
2025
Violence Against Women and Girls in Disasters: How Funders Can Fill Funding Gaps - A Webinar Hosted by CDP
Thursday, November 13, 2025 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
... gender-based violence worldwide. With the cuts in U. S . foreign aid, only 7.3% of the $2.2 billion requested ... discuss how philanthropy can step up to address gaps in funding . By the end of this webinar,...
Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal on the Healthcare Collaboration Between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase
Release Date:
02/05/2018
... companies themselves have said nothing about what their new venture will do, we are all free to spin scenarios to our hearts’ content, and to the public’ s likely confusion. The fact is, no one — probably .....
Annual Meeting Program Booklet - "Global Perspectives, Universal Connections"
Publication date:
06/2015
Philanthropy New York 36th Annual Meeting presented an in-depth conversation ... Gbowee, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. The discussion was the culminating event of Philanthropy New York ’ s 36th Annual Meeting, a half-day public policy conference on ...
Robert Wood Johnson joins JP Morgan Chase and Others as Partners in the Opportunity Finance Network's Finance Justice Fund
Release Date:
05/25/2022
... and Others as Partners in the Opportunity Finance Network' s Finance Justice Fund OFN is pleased to announce two longtime OFN partners have joined as new investors in the Finance Justice Fund — the Robert...
Climate Adaptation Fund, Supported by Duke Foundation, To Enable Conservation Projects In Urban Centers
Release Date:
04/04/2016
... managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society is exploring new methods for helping wildlife in the United States to ... from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This year’ s round of grantmaking will extend...
Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million
Release Date:
11/21/2014
... First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million A new , seven-foundation partnership created to support ...
JPMorgan Chase Expands Entrepreneurs of Color Fund to Drive Inclusive Economic Growth in South Bronx and San Francisco
Release Date:
02/13/2018
... and San Francisco Building on the success of Detroit’ s Entrepreneurs of Color Fund, JPMorgan Chase today announced it will expand the fund’ s model and create two new funds to help minority...
MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program
Release Date:
11/10/2014
... $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’ s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program The MasterCard ... financial services providers in Africa. At the program’ s inception UNCDF had secured USD 5.6...
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...