Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2016 Jane Jacobs Medal
Release Date:
10/04/2016
... around the world, the award was open this year for the first time to international nominees... Rockefeller ...
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Brooklyn Community Foundation Picks 20 Nonprofits for 2016 Spark Prize
Release Date:
10/12/2016
... Community Foundation’s inaugural Spark Prize, the first and only honor of its kind celebrating changemakers in ...
Pershing Square Supports Social Entrepreneurship and Mobile Healthcare
Release Date:
10/19/2016
... of a for-profit organization. Singal points out that at first their nontraditional approach had traditional ...
Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Writes About the Privilege of Being Privileged
Release Date:
10/20/2016
... building a system that produces less of the stuff in the first place. Problem solved... Ford Foundation's Darren .....
Jonas Center Announces Partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs
Release Date:
11/15/2016
... the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a first -of-its-kind partnership to establish a national network ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Gene-Editing Technology That Partially Restores Vision in Blind Animals
Release Date:
11/17/2016
... a holy grail of gene editing-the ability to, for the first time, insert DNA at a target location into the ...
Video: At Rockefeller, Actor Robin Wright on Negotiating Equal Pay on ‘House of Cards’
Release Date:
05/25/2016
... put a stop to violence against women and children. On our first dialogue, Robin joined us for a discussion on human ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Invests in Venture to Install 1.3 Gigawatts of Renewable Electricity across Africa by 2018
Release Date:
01/20/2017
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund invested in the Lekela Power platform -- a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. and Actis LLP that plans to install more than 1.3 gigawatts of renewable electricity across Africa by 2018.
Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness
Release Date:
02/27/2017
... of Ophthalmology at the Kresge Eye Institute are the first to show that the Zika virus (ZIKV) can replicate in the ...
Casey Family Programs Addresses Links Between Food Insecurity And Child Welfare
Release Date:
02/27/2017
... Meeting including governors and their spouses, Virginia First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe and NGA Vice Chair Nevada ... partnership with national nonprofit Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign... Casey...
Ford, Warhol and Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition of Black Women Artists at Brooklyn Museum
Release Date:
03/02/2017
... during the emergence of second-wave feminism. It is the first exhibition to highlight the voices and experiences of ...
Bronx Charter School Caters to Students on the ‘Margins’
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... adoption. The Bronx charter is believed to be the first in the U.S. designed for children in foster care or at ...
CEO Pay at Large Nonprofits Increases 4%
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... topping 4 percent at some large organizations for the first time since before the Great Recession, according to a ...
MCC Signs $500M Compact with Nepal to Improve Power and Roads
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... million compact with Nepal on Thursday, the agency’s first compact in South Asia and a symbol, said some at the ...
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Conversations for Grantmakers: Our Returning Veterans
Monday, May 14, 2012 -
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... needed to regain their mental, physical and economic health . They also reconnect with themselves and society to ... Jim McDonough , Senior Fellow for Veterans Affairs, NYS Health Foundation . Former executive...
New Center Aids Torture Survivors
Release Date:
06/18/2014
... made possible by a $250,000 grant from the New York State Health Foundation, will help torture survivors who have ... between the case management we all provide and the mental health system, which isn’t always...
Testing New Kind Of Emergency Care
Release Date:
07/08/2014
Testing New Kind Of Emergency Care A New York State Health Foundation official calls the "HealthPlex," a ... David Sandman, Senior Vice President at the New York State Health Foundation. The new care...
Pfizer Foundation Supports Vaccine Coverage in Africa to Reduce Child Mortality Rate
Release Date:
09/19/2014
... The grants will focus on building the capacity of health care systems within the five countries to ensure that ... include mobile platforms for vaccinations, which provide health workers with mobile phones and...
Ford Foundation Strives to Boost Medicaid Enrollment
Release Date:
12/01/2014
... more low-income empoyees in Medicaid. BeneStream, a health tech startup that helps businesses comply with the ... they were neither eligible for Medicaid nor offered health benefits by their employers...
Long Island Community Foundation Supports Treatment for Military Veterans and Their Families
Release Date:
05/19/2015
... Many of these veterans are experiencing serious mental health concerns including substance use disorders (SUD) ... work towards removing the stigma associated with mental health needs in the military. Of the...