2016 Nobel Prize Winner Yoshinori Ohsumi’s Discoveries Could Change How We Treat Disease
Release Date:
10/05/2016
... Ohsumi, 71, won the 2016 Nobel Prize on Monday for his research on autophagy ― a metabolic recycling process in ...
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Westchester Community Foundation Supports Westchester Green Business Program in New York State
Release Date:
12/19/2016
... awarded funding through The Cleaner, Greener Communities initiative (CGC), a statewide program, to incorporate ... Green Business (WGB) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA...
Aetna Foundation Leverages Philanthropic Investment to Build Healthier Communities
Release Date:
04/20/2017
... Or it may involve funding technological and medical research that has the potential to revolutionize how we age ...
IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy
Release Date:
06/08/2017
... to take on societal issues through data. With the new initiative , IBM announced 12 projects planned for 2017. Each ...
USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... Funding is made through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. ...
Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... offer scholars a way to publish and peer review academic research that involves digital tools not usually found in ...
Funded by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Scientists Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching
Release Date:
03/27/2018
... in its initial stage and has been tested in a small-scale research trial, but the team managed to prove that this film ...
Macquarie Group Announces Winners of the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award
Release Date:
08/27/2019
... States) Monash University (Australia) Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (Australia) Social Finance (United States) ...
Morgan Stanley Launches Program to Provide 60 Students with Full-Four Year Scholarships to Howard University, Morehouse College and Spelman College
Release Date:
10/21/2020
... financial independence by lifting the barrier of higher education costs. This effort is a part of Morgan Stanley’s ... the financial burden for black students to receive an education is a proven method to...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities
Release Date:
12/13/2016
... to top careers. The effort, called the American Talent Initiative , aims to add 50,000 highly qualified students from ... of 30 colleges and universities have signed on to the initiative , which is being...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty
Release Date:
05/07/2018
... and universities. The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will include ... at Duke. Humanities Unbounded builds on a previous initiative – also funded by a grant from the...
A Unique Nonprofit Lender
Release Date:
08/19/2009
... and growth. Yet, as a recent Johns Hopkins study explained, nonprofits have historically struggled to ... things worse. In fact, even excluding hospitals and higher education , the survey found over $166...
Meet the 15 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy
Release Date:
03/05/2014
... philanthropy, bringing people together to mobilize huge resources for different causes. Too often, though, the quiet ...
Pfizer and UICC Award 20 Grants Totaling $760,000 to Address the Needs of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients
Release Date:
10/14/2015
... announced the recipients from the Seeding Progress and Resources for the Cancer Community: Metastatic Breast Cancer ... Challenge (SPARC MBC Challenge), a first-of-its-kind initiative to address the unique...
Bloomberg Report: 'Data Gap' at City Halls Across the Nation
Release Date:
03/10/2016
... at City Halls Across the Nation Limited training and resources hamper city efforts to use data-based ... by the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities initiative . Those findings come from 115 city...
Supported by Doris Duke, The New England Foundation for the Arts Announces Program Design Changes
Release Date:
01/09/2017
... in parts of the country with less access to dance and resources ... Supported by Doris Duke, The New England ...
PhilTV: Beyond Red Versus Blue: Millennial Perspectives on Reuniting America
Release Date:
11/08/2016
... Fund "Those who have come of age in the Bush-Obama era are moving beyond the left-right fistfight of their parents' ... with five millennial pathfinders as they share diverse visions on how we can...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches $100 Million Data for Health Program in Developing Countries
Release Date:
03/23/2015
... government, is launching Data for Health, a $100 million initiative that will enable 20 low- and middle-income ... and addressing public health problems. The Data for Health initiative seeks to provide...
Bronfman Cultivates Programs for Next Generation Donors
Release Date:
08/20/2015
... next generation donors to bring their own ideas and resources to bear on the Jewish world. After spending a ...
Rockefeller Partnership to Support Cities' Infrastructure Recovery
Release Date:
01/25/2016
... Solutions have announced an infrastructure recovery initiative designed to accelerate the economic recovery of ... by 100 Resilient Cities, a Rockefeller Foundation-funded initiative aimed at helping cities...