Ford Foundation Launches Arts in a Changing America With Webcast
Release Date:
10/23/2015
... set of artists and cultural organizers from across the nation as they explore these questions: ...
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EPIP Welcomes Tamir Novotny as Incoming Executive Director
Release Date:
10/27/2015
Tamir Novotny has been selected as the new Executive Director of EPIP, beginning Monday, November 16
Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide
Release Date:
01/04/2016
With tens of millions of dollars to spend thanks to backers like Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, gun control groups have secured a number of surprising recent successes in Connecticut, Delaware and elsewhere.
New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
03/07/2016
New study published in Clinical Cancer Research details the discovery of a biomarker that puts patients at a higher risk for metastasis of uveal melanoma.
IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
03/11/2016
Indiana University has joined a national consortium, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, to improve the teaching skills of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the diversity of future university...
Microsoft Joins Bloomberg, JPMorgan & Others in Supporting Smithsonian's Museum of African American History
Release Date:
03/25/2016
... Americans are vibrant and important narratives in our nation ’s history,” said Fred Humphries, corporate vice ...
Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results
Release Date:
03/28/2016
... could take root in Rhode Island and spread across the nation . Three years later, more than 500 families have ...
NYS Health Foundation Supporting Model Justice Reform Program
Release Date:
04/04/2016
... jurisdiction on the East Coast, and only the third in the nation , to launch LEAD. Albany’s reform approach highlights ...
Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.
Release Date:
04/25/2016
The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, delivered a global agreement to limit future global warming to under 2° C above pre-industrial levels. The
NYS Health Foundation President Calls For Proper Veteran Care
Release Date:
05/09/2016
... long waiting lists for appointments at the nation ’s VA health care facilities, and for calculating ... deserve. The VA system is a vital source of care for our nation ’s veterans and needs to be preserved and...
New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers
Release Date:
05/16/2016
... Workers The New York Community Trust (NYCT), one of the nation ’s largest community foundations, has renewed a grant ...
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative
Release Date:
08/25/2016
The foundation will support the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University's launch of local/national news partnership project that will show community sites in Jersey how, for example, they can produce the same eye-catching data...
Ms. Foundation Releases New Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America
Release Date:
09/15/2016
... Ms. Foundation for Women’s latest report, Raising Our Nation , highlights the true cost of the impact that a lack ... their own safety, and their communities. Raising Our Nation looks at how barriers to child...
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Feb
2017
Becoming a Successful Board Chair: Tips and Advice from Your Peers - Webinar
Thursday, February 9, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Board chairs play an important and indispensable role in family foundations.
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Apr
2017
Spending Up: A Discussion on Perpetuity - Webinar
Thursday, April 13, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
In the 2015 Trends Study, NCFP found that nearly three-quarters of all family foundations are still considering whether they want to limit their philanthropic lifespans.
10
Aug
2017
Good Governance: How to Use Board Committees Effectively - Webinar
Thursday, August 10, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
There is more than one approach to effective governance in family philanthropy, and the use of committees is one of the most important tools you can use.
An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools
Release Date:
12/22/2016
... students, but fewer focus on ensuring such access to the nation ’s top institutions of higher education. Of course, ... of high-achieving low- and moderate-income students in the nation ’s most prestigious...
NYSHealth Foundation Hosts A Conversation With Sean Cavanaugh on the Future of Medicare
Release Date:
03/31/2017
... hosted a conversation with Sean Cavanaugh, one of the nation 's leading experts on Medicare, to discuss what is in .....
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program
Release Date:
04/27/2017
The program is designed to give select nursing and medical students exposure to strategies, skills and programs that are being successfully implemented in settings they are likely to encounter in the field.
Commonwealth Fund Report Finds that the GOP Health Care Act Would Reverse Gains Made by Community Hospitals
Release Date:
05/05/2017
... was that by expanding Medicaid insurance for many of the nation ’s poor, the law would begin to relieve community ... a massive drain on hospital budgets, greatly adding to the nation ’s overall medical costs,...