James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... and Charlotte Brooks Foundation, which was established in 2010 to handle their legacies and art holdings after Park’s ...
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New Census Figures Offer Hope in Buffalo's Fight Against Child Poverty
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... points to 44 percent, the lowest rate since at least 2010 . The poverty rate for minority groups remains higher ...
How Many Big Storms Before People Abandon Coastal Cities?
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... county populations increased by 39 percent between 1970 to 2010 . As the population skyrockets — from 7.5 billion today ...
20
Jan
2015
The Power of Microaggressions & Microaffirmations
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 -
8:00am to 11:15am
Micro-aggressions can diminish and stigmatize people and according to a recent Gallop poll, micro-aggressions contribute $450 billion to $550 billion per year loss in U.S. workforce productivity. What are they?
Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice Pedro Abramovay to Join Open Society Foundations
Release Date:
08/22/2013
... Secretary for Legislative Affairs from 2007 to 2010 , and Secretary of Justice from 2010 to 2011. Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice Pedro ...
United Hospital Fund Report Examines Hospital Patients’ Refusal of Home Care Services & the Impact on Readmissions and Outcomes
Release Date:
05/15/2017
... United Hospital Fund (UHF) and the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (the Alliance) today released a ... Can Take Care of Myself!”: Patients’ Refusals of Home Health Care Services, on the under-...
Newman's Own Foundation Names Dr. Rafael Pérez-Escamilla to Board of Directors
Release Date:
01/11/2022
... Own Foundation has announced the election of global public health expert Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD, to its board of ... date. Dr. Pérez-Escamilla is Professor of Public Health , Director of the Office of...
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Jun
2011
Speaker's Bio: Commissioner Nirav R. Shah, M.D., MPH
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 12:00pm
... Nirav R. Shah is the 15th New York State Commissioner of Health . As Commissioner, Dr. Shah oversees the administration of the state’s public health insurance programs, which provide health...
The Rockefeller Foundation Appoints Two Esteemed Leaders to Board of Trustees
Release Date:
11/21/2019
... recognized for their dedication and leadership in global health and agriculture, respectively, which are core areas of ... Board of Trustees. Agnes has helped change the national health landscape as a member...
Spend Out vs. Perpetuity: Raising the Question
Release Date:
08/05/2009
... chooses to spend out, there are helpful individuals and resources at the ready. The Beldon Fund case story, “Giving ... She is also a Founder and current Co-Chair of the Health and Environment Funders Network...
The Teagle Foundation Awards Grants to Colleges and Universities Nationwide for Novel Humanities-Focused Programs
Release Date:
06/08/2023
The grants, which totalled $5.38 million, support novel approaches for students of all backgrounds and majors to engage with literature, philosophy and history.
Four Ways to Incorporate a Gender Lens in Your Measurement and Evaluation Efforts
Release Date:
02/20/2018
... a small nonprofit with limited human and financial resources , or a business starting to think about measuring ... evaluation, don’t forget to rely on the wealth of resources already created by practitioners...
A Commitment to Deep Change in 2025 - Launching a Philanthropic Toolkit for Transformational Systems Change
Release Date:
12/13/2024
... as a powerful tool for understanding how a system is evolving by fostering relational sense-making with grantees. ... stands at a pivotal crossroads. As custodians of resources and influence, the call to...
30
Oct
2025
Journalism and Democracy: A Convening on Philanthropy's Role in Strengthening the Press
Thursday, October 30, 2025 -
2:00pm to 5:30pm
... can help address them. The role of philanthropy in an evolving and complex media ecosystem. Speakers Erickson ...
Arcus Foundation Appoints Annette Lanjouw Interim Executive Director
Release Date:
04/02/2012
... University in New Zealand and an advanced degree in Behavioral Ecology from the Rijks Universiteit in the ...
Simons Foundation Launches Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem
Release Date:
03/03/2014
The Simons Foundation has launched the Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem, with the goal of revolutionizing our ability to calculate and understand the properties of molecules and solids important in chemistry, physics and everyday...
At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.
Release Date:
08/28/2017
As president of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy operations. The charitable grant-making arm of the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity each year; in...
Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll
Release Date:
09/05/2017
A new study by researchers at Duke University, for example, found that “implicit weight bias” in children ages 9 to 11 was as common as “implicit racial bias” is among adults.
Student Sues Columbia Over ‘Deliberate Indifference’ to Harassment Claims
Release Date:
10/03/2017
In the latest allegation of sexual harassment by a high-profile academic, a prominent historian at Columbia University has been accused of forcing himself on a 29-year-old female doctoral student and disparaging her to colleagues when she rebuffed...
Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... of Chicago, considered one of the founding fathers of behavioral economics, won the 2017 Nobel prize in economics ...