Mortality Rates for Middle-Aged Whites Not Just About Drugs, Suicide, Says Commonwealth Fund
Release Date:
02/01/2016
... Anne Case and Angus Deaton published a startling finding : since 1999, death rates have been rising for non- ...
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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS
Release Date:
09/23/2016
What can microbes from space tell scientists on Earth? The world is about to find out as experts are currently analyzing fungi grown from microbe samples collected from the International Space Station (ISS).
Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education
Release Date:
12/14/2016
More parents today are financially supporting — and paying more — for their children’s college education, but that development also might be exacerbating economic inequality, according to a new study by a University of Kansas professor.
Phil TV This Week March 24
Release Date:
03/24/2017
... — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan Foundations are Finding Different Paths to Closing Their Operations Phil TV ...
De Blasio Searches for Corrections Chief as Rikers Resurfaces
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... Rikers Island, his administration appears no closer to finding a new corrections chief, with some critics worrying ...
New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors
Release Date:
11/08/2017
A new study shows that today's preretirement generation already has more health issues and health-related limits on their lives than prior generations did when they were in their late 50s.
New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors
Release Date:
11/08/2017
A new study shows that today's preretirement generation already has more health issues and health-related limits on their lives than prior generations did when they were in their late 50s.
SeaChange Capital Partners Co-Authors Report Highlighting Challenges Faced By Non-Profits In Philadelphia
Release Date:
11/27/2017
The report touches on universal themes—among them, the need for nonprofits to build reserves, the importance of contingency planning by nonprofit executives and boards, and the need for funders to support nonprofit overhead—its natural focus was on...
Co-Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of NY Meredith Jenkins Goes to Trinity Wall Street
Release Date:
01/19/2016
... often drawing insights from Carnegie Corporation’s program experience in areas including Africa and Russia. She ... I have loved my job because my efforts have supported our program work to improve education...
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What Funders Need to Know about “Public Charge”: An Analysis of the Published Rule and How Funders Can Take Action - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR
Thursday, October 18, 2018 -
4:00pm to 5:00pm
*This program is hosted by our partner, Grantmakers Concerned with ... basic government supports—from medical care to food and housing assistance—even to weather hard times. This risk ...
The Secret to More Effective Philanthropy: Funding the Unknown
Release Date:
03/28/2013
An op-ed by Elizabeth Good Christopherson, President and CEO of the Rita Allen Foundation, in anticipation of the May 2013 Ashoka Future Forum in Washington, D.C.
Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close
Release Date:
05/20/2013
The country’s only independent polling agency has been accused under a new law of overtly political activity, due in part to a series of grants it has received from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute...
Assessing the How of Grantmaking
Publication date:
04/2014
This GMN guide helps funders measure the effectiveness of current practices by assessing five core questions every grantmaker should be able to answer about how it makes grants.
Spending Down the Family Foundation
Release Date:
03/10/2014
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors CEO Melissa Berman and Arabella Advisors Managing Director Elliot Berger share their thoughts in a Wall Street Journal article on the growing spend-down trend at family foundations.
NYCT Gives $7.6 Million in Largest Round of 2014 Grants
Release Date:
10/07/2014
New York Community Trust is supporting 95 nonprofits nationally through this round of grants.
Peace and Security Funding Index Tracks More Than $280M in Grantmaking
Release Date:
04/05/2016
A new research project by the Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG), in conjunction with Foundation Center, finds that peace and security funders are making important contributions to global peace and stability.
Rita Allen Foundation Funds Study to Understand Rejection of Climate Change
Release Date:
04/27/2016
Climate Central, a Palmer Square-based nonprofit group devoted to studying climate change, has joined several other scientific groups in a study that seeks to understand why many members of the public reject the findings of the scientific community...
U.S. Trust Study Says the Rich Feel Strongly About Giving to Improve Society
Release Date:
05/23/2016
Most wealthy Americans say they want to contribute to society in a meaningful way, and many believe that institutions outside of the government have the best chance of solving tough social and environmental problems.
Leaders From Clark and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Help Create Hands-on Philanthropy Course
Release Date:
07/12/2016
... into five different teams. Each team is charged with finding , researching, selecting, and ultimately awarding ...
Simons Foundation Collaboration to Study the Physics of Glass
Release Date:
07/13/2016
$10 million grant supports international team’s efforts.