Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference
Release Date:
01/18/2017
... organization, and the Russell Sage Foundation , the nation 's premier foundation devoted to social science .....
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Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration
Release Date:
02/03/2017
... Street executives who will be charged with overseeing the nation ’s financial and banking sectors. Others are ...
Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies
Release Date:
02/15/2017
A new study finds that nearly one in four people who seek emergency care for eye problems have mild conditions, and recommends ways to help those patients get the right level of care.
Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature
Release Date:
02/17/2017
... of young math wizards has drawn little attention in a nation where racial equality in the basic institutions of ...
Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many States On Healthcare Scorecard
Release Date:
03/16/2017
The Affordable Care Act has led to better healthcare outcomes nationwide and states like New Jersey that chose to embrace the federal law have seen greater improvements than those that did not, according to a national ranking released Thursday.
Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health
Release Date:
03/17/2017
... lives," says Aetna. The foundation cited just a few of the nation 's many alarming health stats: Thirteen percent of .....
Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding
Release Date:
03/17/2017
Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.
NCN Requests Foundations Sign on to Oppose Repeal of the Johnson Amendment
Release Date:
03/28/2017
The National Council of Nonprofits is putting out an urgent call to all nonprofits and foundations to sign on to a Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship.
Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative
Release Date:
04/04/2017
... have autism. With 25 clinical site partners around the nation , the study aims to ultimately enroll 50,000 people ...
JPB Foundation Supports Study of New Approach That Makes Cells Resistant to HIV
Release Date:
04/19/2017
Their experiments under lab conditions show that these resistant cells can quickly replace diseased cells, potentially curing the disease in a person with HIV.
NYSHealth Funding Opportunity Now Open: Spreading OpenNotes in New York State
Release Date:
04/24/2017
This RFP is open to any hospital in New York State interested in implementing OpenNotes, with awards of up to $100,000 to be granted to up to 10 hospitals. Proposals will be due on June 8, 2017.
Commonwealth Fund’s Biennial Health Insurance Survey Finds People with Medicaid Have Better Access to Health Care Than the Uninsured and Fewer Medical Bill Problems
Release Date:
04/27/2017
... new a Commonwealth Fund report. Medicaid is currently the nation ’s largest health insurer, covering more than 70 ...
With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans
Release Date:
05/05/2017
Americans age 50 and older who report that they have been incarcerated at some point in their lives are more likely to express anxiety about several aspects of retirement, to have experienced unemployment in the recent past, and to have fewer...
The Peterson Center on Healthcare Aims to Transform U.S. Healthcare
Release Date:
05/15/2017
Looking to improve healthcare quality while lowering costs by bringing out the best in doctors, health systems, insurers, patients and employers, the center reports there are many opportunities to transform American healthcare.
Bloomberg Launches Worldwide Urban Public Health Initiative
Release Date:
05/18/2017
Bloomberg Philanthropies will launch the Partnership for Healthy Cities to focus on fighting noncommunicable diseases - including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and respiratory diseases - and injuries.
Bloomberg Backed “Global Street Design Guide” Now Available Free Online
Release Date:
05/22/2017
The Global Street Design Guide, a handbook for cities around the world to design safe, sustainable streets, is available to the public as for free online. The guide was funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has made road safety a top priority .
Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis
Release Date:
05/24/2017
With the Syrian conflict is now in its seventh year, Inside Philanthropy reports in its coverage of this crisis, that help isn’t coming at the scale that's needed. However, among the few philanthropies supporting refugees, Conrad N. Hilton...
Clark Foundation-Sponsored Forum Considers How NY Nonprofit Contractors Can Address Late and Under Payment
Release Date:
05/25/2017
New York City nonprofits providing services on behalf of local government are fed up with late payments and underpayments, and they aren't going to take it anymore.
Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted
Release Date:
06/07/2017
Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals
Bloomberg-Supported Coal Documentary, “From the Ashes,” to Air June 25
Release Date:
06/20/2017
Once there were fish, but then the coal mining began. The stretch of bone-dry, cracked land doesn’t look like much. Rancher L.J. Turner of Wright, Wyo., says, “It used to be, there was fish in there.” Now it’s one of 20 nearby springs that have...