Site Search

Environment and Climate Change

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Doris Duke Foundation

New York State Health Foundation Among Health Legacy Foundations That Address Social Causes of Poor Health Outcomes

Release Date:

12/07/2017

While some legacy health foundations continue to fund work at their affiliated hospitals, many are expanding their efforts to have a larger impact on the communities they serve and beyond.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Video Shows How a New State Prison Policy Hurts Nonprofits Like Books Through Bars in New York

Release Date:

01/10/2018

A new state policy would keep nonprofits like NYC Books Through Bars from sending books to inmates in New York.

Find More By

News type

Caught Our Attention

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Michigan State University Awarded Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Less Commonly Taught Languages

Release Date:

07/23/2019

Michigan State University was awarded a four-year, $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support further development in the research and teaching of less commonly taught languages.

Find More By

News type

Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

Brian Byrd of New York State Health Foundation Appointed to New York Federal Reserve Bank Community Advisory Group

Release Date:

06/21/2021

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced the appointment of Brian Byrd of the New York State Health Foundation to the New York Fed’s Community Advisory Group

Find More By

News type

Related Organizations

New York State Health Foundation Funds Suicide Prevention Study in Four New York Counties

Release Date:

06/17/2019

Erie County is one of four New York counties participating in a suicide prevention study that researchers hope will identify new strategies to stop individuals from killing themselves.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Human Services

Related Organizations

Supported By The New York State Health Foundation, IMPAQ Health Launches NYPlanCosts Calculator

Release Date:

12/19/2017

... the first of its kind in the nation and a model for other states , available at http://NYPlanCosts.org . Designed to ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List

Release Date:

03/29/2017

The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, millions of women marched in Washington, D.C., New York City and other cities across the country and around the globe. Provoked by Trump’s controversial rhetoric on the campaign trail, they came...

Find More By

News type

Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Related Organizations

The Commonwealth Fund

A Top State Education Policymaker Benefited From Integration. Now, He Wants To Bring It Back.

Release Date:

09/06/2017

If Vice Chancellor Andrew Brown had been born a few years earlier, his schooling — and possibly his life — could have been very different.

Find More By

News type

Sector News

Funding Area

Education

Former NYC Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi to Join New York State Health Foundation as Visiting Fellow

Release Date:

04/06/2022

Dr. Chokshi is celebrated for his calm, science-based approach to managing the City’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Find More By

News type

Related Organizations

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.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Social Justice

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

NYS Health 10th Anniversary Awards to Recognize Leaders Improving State Health

Release Date:

05/03/2016

The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) has created two special awards programs to recognize a total of ten influential organizations and/or leaders working to improve health in New York State.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

13 Sep 2017

New York City Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting and Federal and State Workforce Policy Update

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... levels and highlight innovative strategies from other states including industry partnerships, and employer ...

Find More By

Event type

Format

Audience

Topic(s)

Public Policy

Funding Area

Public Policy

Workforce Development

New York Life Foundation Supports Creation of The Speaking Grief Project at WPSU Penn State

Release Date:

01/27/2020

When someone dies, a gap is created in the lives of those who loved that person, especially when he or she is an immediate family member. The death can create a lonely and broken space, and often people don’t know how to support those who are...

Find More By

News type

Children, Youth and Families

Funding Area

Human Services

Technology

Related Organizations

New York Life Foundation

Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’

Release Date:

12/03/2015

Farms are being built at public housing sites to grow produce for communities with limited access to healthy food.

Find More By

News type

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Funding Area

Food Systems

Related Organizations

What's Driving Variation in New York's Hospital Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation)

Release Date:

12/17/2015

James R. Knickman, President and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), writes about price variation in the New York health care system.

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

At Ford Event, de Blasio Says Cities Must Innovate Since Feds and State Won’t

Release Date:

03/30/2016

Mayor de Blasio appeared to abandon any belief that higher levels of government have any interest in helping New York City grapple with income inequality.

Find More By

News type

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Economic Security

The New York State Health Foundation Launches 2019 Special Projects Fund Request for Proposals

Release Date:

09/06/2018

The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) 2019 Special Projects Fund Request for Proposals (RFP) is now available.

Find More By

News type

RFPs Etc

Funding Area

Related Organizations