Trump Administration Makes ACA’s Health-Insurer Payments for September
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... attempt by Republican senators to undo the law they call Obamacare. The uncertainty surrounding the payments has ...
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Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound Essential to Formation of Life on Earth
Release Date:
11/07/2017
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla announced Monday that they may have found a compound essential to the formation of life on earth.
Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities Helping Cities Grow More Powerful
Release Date:
11/22/2017
The world is becoming more and more city (as opposed to any other word that may rhyme with the word "city"). And that could be good for your health, if the impact of the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities continues to grow.
Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers
Release Date:
11/29/2017
The nonprofit’s Quill Connect tool, designed to improve students’ writing skills through online exercises, uses machine learning to help them create better sentences.
Bloomberg Donates $5 Million To Baltimore Police For New Cameras, Technology
Release Date:
12/04/2017
Bloomberg Philanthropies is donating $5 million to help the Baltimore Police Department enhance crime-fighting technology — including buying more surveillance cameras, gun-shot detection software and license plate readers.
Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry
Release Date:
12/18/2017
... as organizations like NPR, PBS, NBC, CBS, and others call out and drive out the ill-behaved scourge on the ...
David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care
Release Date:
12/21/2017
The new Republican tax bill, which the House passed and the Senate approved, is complex, but what it will mean for health in the United States is simple: less.
Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database
Release Date:
01/09/2018
Michigan State University, supported by nearly $1.5 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will create a unique online data hub that will change the way scholars and the public understand African slavery.
Carnegie Corporation of New York Donates $1.5 Million for Disaster Relief
Release Date:
01/30/2018
Philanthropic support will focus on disaster recovery, legal aid, and needs of students in Puerto Rico, Miami, and Houston
Rauch Foundation Releases Report, Minding the Gaps, On Early Childhood Development
Release Date:
02/01/2018
The report finds that when it comes to child development, the newest science is clear: in the early childhood period, even a few months’ head start can make a huge difference.
Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body
Release Date:
02/06/2018
The study in mice found that a brain region called the lateral vestibular nucleus, or LVN, accomplishes this feat by moving muscles in a two-step, kneejerk response that first widens the animal's center of gravity, and then strengthens and...
New Report Funded by JPB Foundation says u.S. Cities Can save Billions with Green, Resilient Design
Release Date:
02/08/2018
A new report released yesterday stresses that making it a de facto policy for U.S. cities would be a cost-effective design solution that could save millions, and even billions, of dollars.
Online Data Journalism Hub Funded by OSF Is Set To Launch
Release Date:
03/12/2018
... Pecquerie, GEN’s CEO, “Collaboration, or what we call on the platform ‘matchmaking,’ is the core challenge ...
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Seeks to Do Things Differently
Release Date:
04/13/2018
From the start, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation sought to do things differently. Its mission, which Carson calls a “radical departure” from the way other community foundations operate, is emblazoned on the wall right outside of Carson’s...
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 plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.
Bloomberg Philanthropies-Supported Criminal Justice Mentorship Program Scales across Country
Release Date:
05/02/2018
With grants from Bloomberg Philanthropies and oversight from the Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity, the Department of Probation funded 19 community-based organizations to hire mentors for people ages 16 to 24
With Support From Bloomberg Philanthropies The 9/11 Memorial is Evolving to Honor Those Sickened
Release Date:
05/31/2018
Wednesday’s announcement of the design concept coincides with the 16th anniversary of the formal end of recovery operations at the World Trade Center site.
NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund
Release Date:
06/13/2018
... launched the Radical Hope Fund in July 2017 with a global call for projects grounded in new partnerships, bold ...
Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Field Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments
Release Date:
06/18/2018
A new field study called HOMEChem (House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry), funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in its Chemistry of Indoor Environments program, will analyze these chemical interactions with the...
New York Foundation and New York Community Trust Create New Fund Aimed At Supporting A Fair and Accurate Census
Release Date:
07/02/2018
The New York Community Trust has joined with other funders in the state to create the New York State Grantmakers for Census Equity which plans to raise $1 to $2 million to help mobilize local and statewide efforts to make the 2020 Census accurate...