Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List
Release Date:
03/29/2017
... threatened by the new administration. Of course, women are not a monolithic voting bloc, and many of them are staunch ...
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W.T. Grant Funds Research on How Technology Use Affects At-Risk Youth
Release Date:
05/03/2017
More use of technology can lead to increases in attention, behavior and self-regulation problems for adolescents already at risk for mental health issues, new study finds.
Alarming Number of Young Girls in Mexico Are Forced to Marry, Ford-Funded Report Finds
Release Date:
05/04/2017
... 15 percent of Mexican girls who dropped out of school were not in such relationships. . . Alarming Number of Young Girls ...
Simons-Funded Research Finds Brain Differences Between People with Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia, Autism
Release Date:
05/25/2017
A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those at risk for autism, and the findings could help explain the biological underpinnings of these neuropsychiatric...
Commonwealth Fund: CBO Score on Senate Health Bill: 22M Americans Uninsured & Sharp Increases in Premiums for Elderly
Release Date:
07/03/2017
The CBO has released its report on the impact of the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. If the bill were to become law, CBO projects that 22 million people would lose health insurance by...
Serving Up Success: Citi Foundation Grant Funds FIU Assistance to Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs
Release Date:
08/25/2017
A grant from Citi Foundation helped Florida International University create StartUP FIU FOOD, an incubator to help new food and beverage entrepreneurs grow their companies with workshops, mentorship and assistance with securing financing.
Commonwealth Fund: Indecision on ACA Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Creates Confusion for States
Release Date:
09/11/2017
To date, the Trump administration has offered states only uncertainty about what to expect in 2018, which has made it difficult to set premium rates, writes the Commonwealth Fund.
Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... peer review academic research that involves digital tools not usually found in online journals. The idea for the ...
Capital One Invests $3 Million to Fund Machine Learning Research at University of Maryland
Release Date:
12/15/2017
... lessons to real-world problems. “This partnership will not only help attract and retain top faculty and students, ...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students
Release Date:
04/27/2018
Wabash College has received an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to improve retention and graduation rates for all students with special emphasis on students from particular populations that have been historically disadvantaged in...
The Howard Gilman Foundation, Time Warner Foundation, and Others Fund LCT3 Season Programming Featuring Pass Over
Release Date:
07/06/2018
The LCT3 season program is supported by generous grants from The Howard Gilman Foundation, Time Warner Foundation, and others.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Gene Editing Research to Identify Gene that Controls Butterfly Wing Color
Release Date:
10/26/2018
Many Heliconius butterflies have wing patterns and colors that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators, and new research by scientists from the University of Chicago, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, shows that in one...
Oxiris Barbot, MD, Former NYC Health Commissioner, Named President and CEO of United Hospital Fund
Release Date:
08/11/2022
Dr. Barbot Will Be First Woman to Lead the 143-Year-Old Nonprofit
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2023
For the Love of Data: How Census Data Drives Decision-Making - A Webinar Hosted by the New York State Census Equity Fund
Thursday, February 16, 2023 -
11:00am to 12:30pm
... York State? 54 percent of households in New York City do not own a car? Over 1 million households in New York State do not have access to the internet? These and other important ...
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2013
Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 -
8:45am to 10:30am
... about the ins-and-outs — and what's licit and what's not — about using or funding advocacy to further your foundation’s work. Join .....
Open Society Foundation-funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way African-American Girls are Treated at School
Release Date:
11/06/2015
... are all code for stereotypes of African-American girls as not fitting within prevalent white norms of feminine behavior ... and requiring social correction. These biases play out not only in discipline...
Milbank Memorial Fund: How Do State Health Policy Meetings Make A Difference?
Release Date:
02/10/2016
Milbank Memorial Fund takes a look at how its funding is impacting people and actually improving population health.
New York State Health Foundation Awards United Hospital Fund Grant To Study Ways To Improve Discharge Planning
Release Date:
10/25/2017
United Hospital Fund receives grant from New York State Health Foundation to study ways to improve discharge planning by improving patient and family communications.
Commonwealth Fund Report Shows That Medicaid, Medicare Accounted for 59% of Health Care Revenue for Largest Insurers
Release Date:
12/07/2017
In 2016, Medicare and Medicaid accounted for nearly 60 percent of health care revenues reported by the five largest U.S. commercial health insurance companies (UnitedHealthCare, Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Humana), according to a new Health Affairs study...
Commonwealth Fund Supported Report Shows Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States
Release Date:
12/14/2017
Forty-seven states saw their adult uninsured rate drop by five percentage points or more in the first three years following the Affordable Care Act’s major health coverage expansions, according to a new Commonwealth Fund scorecard assessing access...