Arabella Advisors Founder Comments on Innovations to Reduce Food Waste
Release Date:
07/21/2016
... Entire companies have formed around the notion of using ugly produce. “That is a place where there’s ...
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MasterCard Makes Fortune List of Businesses Confronting World's Problems
Release Date:
08/23/2016
More businesses are taking on society’s biggest problems—and making money doing so. Here’s our look at 50 companies that do well by doing good.
Doris Duke Supports Research on Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
Release Date:
09/07/2016
... disease to the bedside. A clinical gene therapy trial, using a virus rendered harmless in the laboratory, is ...
Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2016 Jane Jacobs Medal
Release Date:
10/04/2016
In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Jacobs' birth and the impact of her ideas on cities around the world, the award was open this year for the first time to international nominees.
United Hospital Fund Checklist Helps Patients Fight For Rights At The Hospital — And Avoid Readmission
Release Date:
10/05/2016
When hospitals readmit aging patients more often than average, they can face stiff government penalties.
Simons Foundations Awards Grants To UH Mānoa Mathematics Professors
Release Date:
10/05/2016
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Assistant Professors Sarah Post and Rob Harron were each awarded a collaboration grant for mathematicians from the Simons Foundation.
Century Foundation Fellow Comments on Trump Policy for Student Loan Forgiveness
Release Date:
12/14/2016
Education Department officials say they will work through Jan. 20 to review claims of defrauded students, but borrowers and advocates call for more urgency.
Carnegie Corporation Seeking Research on Emerging Technology Threats to Nuclear Stability
Release Date:
12/21/2016
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has issued a call for proposals for research on technological advances that could threaten nuclear stability.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Continues to Support Nurturing Young Artists
Release Date:
01/20/2017
... ages 8 to 10 years of age, according to a news release. Using structured theater activities which focus on ...
Rita Allen Foundation Supports Digital Democracy Platform
Release Date:
02/07/2017
The Digital Democracy platform, funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and the Rita Allen Foundation, is a collaboration between man and machine.
Supported by Doris Duke, Conservation Group Maps Land Protection Strategy in Three States
Release Date:
03/13/2017
A conservation group has created maps identifying key landscapes in the Pacific Northwest most likely to sustain native species amid climate change, and is distributing money to protect private lands through use-limiting easements or outright...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz Announces Increase of 2017 Program Grants Budget
Release Date:
03/15/2017
Recognizing the challenges to many of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s program priorities presented by the current political climate, the board of trustees has approved an increase in the Fund’s grants budget by nearly 12 percent for 2017, Fund...
Sloan Foundation Supports Study Mapping Space Dust in 3-D
Release Date:
03/23/2017
We Earthlings are essentially just little clumps of stardust, albeit with very complex chemistry.
Bloomberg Launches Smart City Certification
Release Date:
04/11/2017
Two years after its inception, Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities program announced an initiative that will direct cities on how to use data to improve their smart infrastructure.
NoVo Foundation to Unveil Plan to Help Girls of Color
Release Date:
04/13/2017
The New York City-based NoVo Foundation, created in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, the youngest son of Warren Buffett, says it will let the girls and their advocates on the local level determine what their needs are, rather than be told what...
Mellon Foundation Supports Digitization Project for the American Numismatic Society’s Back List of Monographs
Release Date:
04/17/2017
The digitization project for the American Numismatic Society’s back list of monographs has gained funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Rockefeller Foundation Survey Reveals Insight into the College Skills Gap
Release Date:
05/01/2017
... noted that half of recent college graduates are not using skills they learned in college at work, and 86 percent ...
The Surdna Foundation Discusses Good Governance in New CEP Report
Release Date:
05/02/2017
CEP’s advisory services team and the Surdna Foundation partnered to produce a new publication that shares stories of good governance at family foundations.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $1.725 Million for Hopkins & Community College of Baltimore County Partnership on Humanities
Release Date:
05/19/2017
The money will be used to expand opportunities for community college students to research on the Hopkins campus and study with Hopkins professors and graduate students.
Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics First Annual Meeting
Release Date:
07/31/2017
... limits, moduli problems, collapse, gluing constructions using methods from algebraic geometry, and connections with ...