“Reducing Food Loss and Food Waste” Video From The Rockefeller Foundation Funded 2017 Food Tank Summit
Release Date:
11/21/2017
How Do We Create a Food Waste and Loss Free World?
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Survey Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Elderly Prone to Workplace Discrimination
Release Date:
05/23/2019
About half of Americans think there's age discrimination in the workplace, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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-- POSTPONED -- Moving Beyond Your Comfort Zone: Unexpected Gains Through Creative Funding Practices
Thursday, June 7, 2012 -
8:45am to 11:00am
In a recent Forbes article, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, chair of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and president of her family’s foundation, underscored the importance of philanthropic innovations. “We need to become much more...
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Provided Critical Funding to Voting Block, a New Jersey Collaborative Reporting Effort
Release Date:
02/08/2018
At a time when news organizations are losing staff at alarming rates and perceived negatively by 43 percent of Americans, collaborative reporting models rooted in engagement, like Voting Block, are a way for newsrooms to help expand their reporting...
CollegePoint, An Initiative Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Makes A Hard Decision Less Lonely
Release Date:
08/15/2018
CollegePoint , An Initiative Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Makes A Hard Decision Less Lonely Some high school students think of applying to colleges as a full-time job. There are essays and tests, loads of...
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Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
... policy or legal advocacy Your foundation grants cannot fund nonprofits that advocate or lobby A 501 (h) election ... What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund ...
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Families Funding Change: How Social Justice Giving Honors Our Roots and Strengthens Communities - Webinar
Thursday, November 12, 2015 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Join us in person or by webinar to explore strategies family foundations and donor advised funds can take to engage more deeply in grantmaking that builds toward long-term social change.
A New Coalition Funded by the Prudential Foundation and Citibank Launches in Newark to Support Asset Building
Release Date:
02/12/2018
Newark Asset Building Coalition aims to promote financial independence through financial education, and access to wealth-building programs.
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Fearless Fund Next Steps: PSOs, Advocacy & Action - A Virtual Meeting Hosted by United Philanthropy Forum and ABFE
Monday, July 8, 2024 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
... With the ongoing legal challenge to the Fearless Fund ’s grantmaking supporting women entrepreneurs of color, ... that aim to advance racial equity, with the Fearless Fund case being a prime example. Many in...
Chief Of 100 Resilient Cities, A Rockefeller Funded Program, On How Cities Can Tackle Climate Change
Release Date:
07/25/2017
Nearly five years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York to devastating effect, America’s most populated city is still rebuilding in some areas — and, with an office of recovery and resiliency and a city-wide strategy — is looking ahead to how best to...
Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants
Release Date:
11/01/2017
Bard College plans to launch a “microcollege” at the Brooklyn Public Library and will be free for students, aiming to attract talented low-income applicants who haven’t sought degrees due to the pricetag or personal hardships
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky
Release Date:
11/20/2017
The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Tow Foundation Funded CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Announces First-Ever Endowed Chair, Professor Jeff Jarvis
Release Date:
11/21/2017
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is excited to announce its first-ever endowed chair, in journalism innovation, and the first designee will be Professor Jeff Jarvis, a world-renowned thought leader on the future of the news business.
Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid
Release Date:
01/09/2018
Supported by The Mayday Fund , Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better ... that the structure is available... Supported by The Mayday Fund , Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better ...
Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues
Release Date:
01/24/2018
Mice with the genetic defect that causes Fragile X syndrome (FXS) learn and remember normally, but show an inability to learn new information that contradicts what they initially learned, a new study shows. FXS is the most common genetic cause of...
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.
Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser
Release Date:
02/21/2018
Although mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones let us communicate, work and access information wirelessly, their batteries must still be charged by plugging them into an outlet. But engineers at the University of Washington have for the...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds New Research on the Energy and Environmental Implications of the Digital Economy
Release Date:
04/18/2018
The project is designed to create a multidisciplinary body of research on the energy and environmental impacts of sharing platforms, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technologies.
With Support from The Andrus Family Fund, Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 Cohort
Release Date:
06/21/2018
With Support from The Andrus Family Fund , Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 ... ... With Support from The Andrus Family Fund , Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 ...
Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players
Release Date:
08/09/2018
In a new study, researchers found no evidence of early onset dementia in a small sample of retired professional hockey and football players.