Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities
Release Date:
09/12/2016
... Focused on People With Disabilities Saying it made a major mistake by overlooking the needs of people with ...
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Russell Sage Survey Finds Fear of Other People Is Now Primary Motivation for American Gun Ownership
Release Date:
09/19/2016
... provided an advance summary of the survey’s major findings, set for publication by the Russell Sage ...
Women in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Economic Development Program Secure Marriott Deal
Release Date:
10/13/2016
... Philanthropies’ Economic Development program secured a major deal for the women participating in the business ...
NYS Health's Derek Coy Explores the Role of Private-Public Partnerships in Serving Veterans
Release Date:
11/11/2016
In a new post on the GrantWatch section of Health Affairs Blog, NYSHealth Veterans' Health Officer Derek Coy discusses one of the biggest hurdles that veterans face: finding resources that both they and their families can use.
Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health Reform
Release Date:
02/16/2017
In the fall of 1964, Wilbur Cohen, then assistant secretary of legislation at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), was summoned to the White House along with his peers from...
NY Community Trust Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’s Policies Of ‘Fear’
Release Date:
03/06/2017
From legal assistance to racial justice training, the benefactors behind the new Liberty Fund are taking a front-line position in the battle to preserve civil rights and basic freedoms.
Supported by Greenwall Foundation, Study Finds Two-Thirds Of Americans See Docs Who Got Paid By Drug Companies
Release Date:
03/07/2017
A majority of patients in the United States visited a doctor who received payments from drug companies, but most have no clue about it, according to a new Drexel University study.
Atlantic Philanthropies, Commonwealth Fund and Other Foundations Take a Stand — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan
Release Date:
03/20/2017
... It announced its last grants late last year. Other major health-care grant makers such as the Robert Wood ...
Open Society Foundations Announces 2017 Soros Equality Fellows
Release Date:
03/21/2017
... in the food supply; chronicling how slavery helped build a major modern institution of higher learning; and creating an ...
Results from The Moody's Foundation-sponsored National Survey of America's Top Math Students Provides Glimpse into their Academic Success
Release Date:
04/05/2017
According to the survey, sponsored by The Moody's Foundation, the majority of students queried (84 percent) do their homework in a room by themselves. Almost half of the students (47 percent) spend more than 11 hours a week doing homework, while 29...
Report Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Finds Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year
Release Date:
04/06/2017
... Year Smoking kills more than one in 10 people worldwide. A major new study in the medical journal Lancet found that, in ...
Rockefeller, Gates and Norway to Bolster ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Following Climate Change Flooding Fears
Release Date:
05/22/2017
... as a backup to seed banks around the world in case of a major catastrophe. . . Rockefeller, Gates and Norway to ...
Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss
Release Date:
05/24/2017
... support when family members go missing. When they remove a major food donor, like a mother or daughter, from a bat's .....
Commonwealth Fund: CBO Score on Senate Health Bill: 22M Americans Uninsured & Sharp Increases in Premiums for Elderly
Release Date:
07/03/2017
... passed the House earlier this month. We take a look at the major reasons why. . . Commonwealth Fund: CBO Score on Senate ...
MetLife Foundation Noted Among Funders of Arts and Justice Initiative
Release Date:
07/19/2017
... to donors increasingly drawn to programs that address major social challenges. I now bring you Exhibit B, ...
Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Release Date:
07/24/2017
... impact. Jen Bokoff: Your family is known for funding major institutions, but your foundation was set up in part to ...
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... plans to shut down this year — despite backing by major for-profit education companies, Kaplan and the Apollo ...
Trump Administration Considering Cuts to Cultural Exchange Visas
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... Exchange Visas The Trump administration is considering major reductions in cultural exchange programs, including ...
With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up
Release Date:
08/28/2017
While STEM giving is one of the hottest funding areas in higher ed philanthropy, most of the gifts we profile are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals—a new science building, teacher training, diversifying the ranks of science majors, and...
Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children
Release Date:
08/30/2017
A new report finds the practice of adults marrying girls as young as 12 is rampant across the U.S., despite evidence it threatens lifelong harm.