Simons Foundation Study Shows New Insights on Ocean Microoganisms
Release Date:
01/26/2016
... taken out of the atmosphere every day -- viruses are a major threat. But a paper to be published Jan. 25, 2016 in ...
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International Genome Research Partnership Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
... scratch. Those bloodsucking bed bugs are endemic in every major city, and they’re very hard to get rid of. A massive ...
Capital One-Funded Report: Women Entrepreneurs On the Rise in NYC
Release Date:
03/04/2016
... Rise in NYC The Center for an Urban Future published a major new study that reveals a dramatic surge in women ... firms increased by at least 20 percent in nearly every major industry and that women are...
Report Highlights 20 Urban Resilience Strategies In The Rockefeller Foundation-Supported Resilient Cities Network
Release Date:
01/25/2017
... Market ( HTML or 23 pages, PDF ), identifies four major areas of opportunity — water management, including ...
09
Mar
2017
Secret Film Screening & Funder Discussion of Sundance Award-Winning Documentary
Thursday, March 9, 2017 -
4:30pm to 7:00pm
... documentary film. Come see it before it hits the major outlet that just picked it up! We will engage in ...
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund: A 19th Century Fortune Tackles 21st Century Problems
Release Date:
05/17/2017
... 3rd, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and David–it has been a major supporter of New York’s Riverside Church (where the ...
Ford Foundation Hires Detroit Native, Kevin Ryan, as Program Officer for its New Detroit Office
Release Date:
05/31/2017
... since leaving the Motor City in 1953 as it ramps up a major initiative to invest in affordable housing in the city ...
Markle Foundation-Backed Online Tools Seek to Help Close the Employment Skills Gap
Release Date:
07/10/2017
... where billion-dollar bets from philanthropy could have major impact. It’s not hard to see why. As Microsoft ...
Chief Of 100 Resilient Cities, A Rockefeller Funded Program, On How Cities Can Tackle Climate Change
Release Date:
07/25/2017
... change and becoming more resilient to disaster. Many major coastal cities face various risks and effects of ...
Respected Anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford Steps Into New Role as President of Wenner-Gren Foundation
Release Date:
08/09/2017
... continuing its functions associated with being one of the major funding sources for international anthropological ...
Goldman Givers: Seven Things To Know About Donors from Goldman Sachs
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... than tech, finance is producing the largest number of new major donors these days. And we've been identifying the .....
Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops
Release Date:
08/15/2017
... are relatively rare in nature, compared to the two other major groups of plant pigments, and until recently, their ...
Michael R. Bloomberg To Convene Heads Of State And CEOs At Inaugural Global Business Forum
Release Date:
08/22/2017
... The daylong Forum will be an unprecedented convening of major business and government leaders from all regions of the ...
Ai Weiwei's Citywide Public Art Project Elicits Protest From Village Neighborhood Group
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... Ai’s largest projects to date, with pieces going up in major locations like the Unisphere in Queens, Doris C. ...
Carnegie Corp.’s Academic Leadership Award Recognizes Seven University Presidents
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... the liberal arts, equal opportunity, the development of major interdisciplinary programs, international engagement, ...
Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... country’s 4.4 million is now a refugee. The result is a major humanitarian catastrophe, now in its seventh year. The ...
George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations
Release Date:
10/18/2017
... George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager and a major Democratic donor, has given $18 billion to his Open ...
Michael J. Fox Foundation and Simons Foundation Making Waves in Basic Science
Release Date:
12/01/2017
... CZI, have much broader goals. But one attribute unites the major players on the philanthropic science-funding scene: ...
01
Feb
2018
Supporting Local Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Foundations - Webinar
Thursday, February 1, 2018 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Join PSFG and the Human Rights Funders Network for a funders-only discussion on the challenges to “locally-led” grantmaking and recommendations for how to overcome them.
New York Times Op-Ed "Good Leaders Make Good Schools" Cites Important Wallace-Commissioned Research Report
Release Date:
03/13/2018
... students were improving faster than students in any other major school district in the country. Chicago schools are ...