Mellon Foundation Gives $1.02 Million to New Critical Theory Initiative
Release Date:
03/30/2017
... Gives $1.02 Million to New Critical Theory Initiative Using a $1.02 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon ...
Site Search
- resource provided by the Forum Network Knowledgebase.
Search Tip: Search with " " to find exact matches.
Report Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Finds Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year
Release Date:
04/06/2017
The number of deaths from smoking worldwide has gotten worse instead of better.
NYSHealth to Provide Funding For Free Health And Wellness Programming at Randall’s Island Park
Release Date:
04/21/2017
... mean for instances of obesity, diabetes, and asthma. Using the funds awarded by NYSHealth, RIPA will expand its ...
New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course
Release Date:
04/27/2017
Rajiv Shah, the new president of the Rockefeller Foundation, is no stranger to politics or philanthropy.
United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative
Release Date:
04/28/2017
United Hospital Fund announced today that it is launching Stage II of its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative to improve antibiotic prescribing for outpatients across New York City, working with seven hospitals and health systems...
New York Stem Cell Foundation HQ is a Linchpin for Biotech
Release Date:
05/05/2017
The New York Stem Cell Foundation's $22 million, 40,000-square-foot headquarters on West 54th Street, which opened last month, represents founder and CEO Susan L. Solomon's grand effort to turn the Far West Side into the city's newest biotech hub.
"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies
Release Date:
05/16/2017
... the 86-year-old increasingly accused by nationalists of using his money to force his liberal values, including ...
Atlantic Philanthropies Publishes “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic"
Release Date:
05/31/2017
In “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic,” historian Benjamin Soskis writes that Giving While Living is a more complex phenomenon than that three-word slogan would suggest.
The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Grants to Organizations Supporting and Defending LGBTQ Community
Release Date:
06/23/2017
The Foundation will support orgnaizations providing legal, advocacy, and social services to the LGBTQ community as they respond to an environment of increased violence, hostility and prejudice.
Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time
Release Date:
07/13/2017
A new report from the Urban Institute tells much of the reason why the nation’s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in recent years: Prisoners sentenced to long terms under laws passed in previous decades still are locked up, and...
Macquarie Announces $100,000 Social Innovation Award Recipient
Release Date:
08/11/2017
The Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, has announced Cerebral Palsy Alliance as the recipient of the 2017 Macquarie Social Innovation Award.
The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/11/2017
... This is a merging of two philanthropic strategies— using grantmaking power to connect groups with shared ...
New York State Health Foundation Funding Holistic Health in NY State
Release Date:
08/30/2017
CEO David Sandman and his staff have worked at serving more people, and creating more meaningful impact, by shifting their health funding focus upstream, to the causes of health and wellness challenges.
Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment
Release Date:
08/31/2017
Mayor de Blasio signed into law a package of 18 bills aimed at protecting tenants whose landlords use construction as a form of harassment Wednesday.
Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Skoll, and Bill and Melinda Gates are expected to host new gatherings that promise to update what used to be the philanthropic get-together of the year: theClinton Global Initiative, filled with celebrities, rich donors, high...
Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case
Release Date:
09/11/2017
The Civilian Complaint Review Board recommended the NYPD discipline the cop who used a banned chokehold in the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island three years ago.
Peter G. Peterson Foundation CEO Comments On Federal Debt Passing $20 Trillion For First Time
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... again on the open markets. For months, it had been using off-book extraordinary measures to keep from ...
Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups
Release Date:
09/21/2017
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $20 million during the next three years to strengthen women’s groups worldwide, Ms. Gates said Wednesday during an event in New York.
New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity
Release Date:
09/26/2017
An EU-funded index measuring biodiversity in food production is expected to be launched next year, giving investors a benchmark for assessing how companies and governments are making food systems more resilient to climate change.
Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground
Release Date:
09/27/2017
For not quite two centuries starting in the mid-1660s, when a Dutch village was established under the name Nieuw Haarlem, a church in Upper Manhattan had separate cemeteries, one for white parishioners, the other for descendants of Africans.