NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement
Release Date:
12/10/2015
... measure?’ And that has been bothering us for quite some time .” Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with ...
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16
Mar
2016
Young Leaders Breakfast Club and EPIP-NY: Happy Hour
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 -
5:30pm to 7:30pm
... Let's take a break from making connections and spend some time cultivating relationships! How to play Peoples is .....
Lee Wasserman Fights Climate Change with Rockefeller Funds
Release Date:
04/18/2016
... John D. Ro ckefeller , Lee Wasserman has spent much of his time spearheading initiatives to tackle clima te change . At ...
New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana
Release Date:
08/25/2016
New York Life announced today that it will donate $100,000 to aid flood relief efforts in Louisiana with a $50,000 donation to the American Red Cross, a $25,000 donation to Baton Rouge Area Foundation Flood Relief Fund and $25,000 to the Greater...
Revisiting Attica Shows How New York State Failed to Fulfill Promises
Release Date:
08/26/2016
... to storm the prison and quash a four-day rebellion. By the time it was over, 39 people had been shot dead, including 10 ...
NYSHealth Launches 2017 Special Projects Fund Request for Proposals
Release Date:
09/02/2016
... 17, 2017 . NYSHealth Special Projects Fund awards are one- time , nonrenewable funding opportunities consistent with the ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Releases New Book on the Value of Diversity
Release Date:
10/25/2016
... is reason to question at this ostensibly highly polarized time whether America can rise to the task of leveraging this ...
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund: A 19th Century Fortune Tackles 21st Century Problems
Release Date:
05/17/2017
RBF made headlines a few years ago by announcing plans to divest from fossil fuels. What's the update on the fund’s divestment process and RBF’s mission-aligned investing?
NY Community Trust to Assist More New Yorkers on the Path to Citizenship
Release Date:
05/22/2017
NaturalizeNY, administered by the NYS Office for New Americans in partnership with the Robin Hood Foundation, New York Community Trust, universities and media organizations, launched a second round of its private-public partnership to encourage...
Commentary from Century Foundation: TrumpCare Premium Increases Mapped
Release Date:
06/01/2017
The Congressional Budget Office estimated the House-passed American Health Care Act would cause premiums in the individual market to rise by 20 percent next year. The Century Foundation created a map to estimate the premium hikes that people in...
Hilton Foundation Follows a Familiar—and Promising—Playbook in Tackling a Debilitating Disease
Release Date:
08/29/2017
About 1 in 750 people have a chance of contracting MS, which is a debilitating disease of the nervous system. Current research suggests that the condition is triggered by an environmental event among people already genetically predisposed to...
Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... taken in 2001 and 2002 and again in 2012 and 2013, each time with about 40,000 adults. Drinking had increased in ...
Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... was right. “If you looked at what we were doing at the time , we were a mile wide and an inch deep,” says Peter ...
New Video From TCC Group: The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... opportunities to advance their agendas. At the same time , grantmakers are establishing ever more ambitious goals ...
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Teams Up With Lin-Manuel Miranda to Aid Puerto Rico
Release Date:
10/18/2017
... all but destroyed the island’s energy grid. (As of press time , Maria had claimed at least 48 lives, and more than 80 ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky
Release Date:
11/20/2017
... by pioneering all-sky observations, and by monitoring over time the changes in a million objects.. Alfred P. Sloan ...
01
Feb
2018
Supporting Local Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Foundations - Webinar
Thursday, February 1, 2018 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
... grantmaking. We’ll reserve a vast majority of the time for information-sharing and strategizing, so please come ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Maintains A World Class Art Collection In a Westchester Basement
Release Date:
02/05/2018
... thus precipitating a love of art to him. By the time he lived in the house, however, his parents’ ...
Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body
Release Date:
02/06/2018
The study in mice found that a brain region called the lateral vestibular nucleus, or LVN, accomplishes this feat by moving muscles in a two-step, kneejerk response that first widens the animal's center of gravity, and then strengthens and...
With Support From Tiffany & Co., Virtual Reality Project, "My Africa," To Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival
Release Date:
03/12/2018
... elephant orphaned by a poacher's gun. Directed by four- time Emmy winner David Allen, the project was captured with .....