JPMorgan Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs
Release Date:
05/05/2017
... employers in New York City. The investment will help drive change and is designed to increase dramatically the number of ...
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Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries
Release Date:
05/12/2017
To inform discussion of possible changes to Medicare, this issue brief looks at beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs by income and health status.
Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary
Release Date:
06/06/2017
... who, they allege, are being maltreated; they want to change the legal status of animals in American courts. Wise ...
Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change . But hitting those goals will take more than creative ...
With Support from Pershing Square and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations, New Research Finds that Behavioral ‘Nudges’ Offer a Cost-Effective Policy Tool
Release Date:
06/08/2017
The new study, which examined the cost-effectiveness of nudges and typical intervention strategies like financial incentives side-by-side, found that nudges often yield particularly high returns at a low cost when it comes to boosting retirement...
Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel
Release Date:
06/12/2017
... solutions to their nuclear waste? Is it possible to change the narrative about nuclear waste from a burden to a ...
Bloomberg-Supported Coal Documentary, “From the Ashes,” to Air June 25
Release Date:
06/20/2017
... Not only is coal the biggest contributor to climate change , wreaking havoc around the globe, it also makes its ...
Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/01/2017
... adopters are, in fact, working on a meta level, trying to change how the philanthropic or NGO sectors themselves ...
Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... investors seek to use their capital as a tool for social change , a group of asset managers and nonprofit leaders is ...
Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues
Release Date:
08/16/2017
... Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues As climate change pushes U.S. cities to build protections against ...
Rockefeller’s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities
Release Date:
08/17/2017
... to redevelop or build new structures to withstand climate change also open the door for real estate speculation that ...
Carnegie Grant Helps Princeton Team to Use Virtual Reality to Help With Real-World Arms Control
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... international affairs, and New York City-based Games for Change were awarded a $414,000 grant last month from the ...
Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
Release Date:
08/24/2017
To market to the base of pyramid, we need to stop thinking of selling as a dark art.
Tree-Killing Beetles Spread into Northern U.S. Forests as Temperatures Rise
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change . . . Tree-Killing Beetles Spread into Northern U.S. ...
Audacious Philanthropy
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... enough; they demand disruptive, catalytic, systemic change —and in short order. Even as society grapples with ...
Canada Wants a New NAFTA to Include Gender and Indigenous Rights
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... both gender and indigenous rights, and addressing climate change . Those “progressive elements,” the foreign affairs ...
Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May Be The New Normal
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... events become more intense as a result of manmade climate change . . . Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May ...
Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The author and journalist’s new book explains how antibiotics overuse helped chicken ascend from a local delicacy to an everyday protein, with serious health consequences as a result.
Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... will grow ever wider in the years to come, absent policy change . The two institutes’ joint report bears the ominous ...
Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers
Release Date:
09/18/2017
Drug companies and doctors have been accused of fueling the opioid crisis, but some question whether insurers have played a role, too.