Huge Gap Found Among States In Long-Term Services Quality and Access
Release Date:
06/20/2014
... each of the five main indicators in the survey. The study looks at nearly two dozen measures—from access to ...
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Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings
Release Date:
12/09/2015
Rockefeller backs start-up that uses big data, electronic communication and insights from behavioral finance to nudge folks to make smarter choices.
Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
... Jan. 27 in the journal Scientific Reports . . . The study was funded in part by grants from the National ...
Ford, Open Society and Others Join in Support of Public Interest Tech
Release Date:
02/17/2016
A group of five national foundations - Ford, MacArthur, Knight, Open Society and Mozilla foundations - are working to promote the use of the Internet for social good, and has announced grants totaling $18 million to strengthen the emerging field of...
The Daphne Foundation Appoints Yvonne Moore to Its Board of Trustees
Release Date:
04/28/2016
The Daphne Foundation has announced the election of Yvonne Moore to its Board of Trustees. A private family foundation founded in 1991 by Abigail E. Disney & Pierre N. Hauser, The Daphne Foundation focuses its investments in organizations that...
Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist
Release Date:
08/24/2016
... one thinks that great investments are easy to find. A 2010 study found that the median private equity or venture capital ...
DeQuendre Neeley-Bertrand Joins the Schott Foundation as Communications Director
Release Date:
02/22/2017
... served as Communications Director for the Center for the Study of Social Policy, a Washington, DC-based think tank ...
Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President
Release Date:
03/08/2017
Erica Dunbar, who grew up in Philadelphia, is one of the more than 700 Mellon Mays PhDs who are not only helping to diversify university faculty in the United States, but who are also contributing groundbreaking scholarship and rising to the highest...
Vivian Tseng Promoted to Senior Vice President, Program of The William T. Grant Foundation
Release Date:
03/29/2017
Vivian Tseng has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Program, of the William T. Grant Foundation. In this role, she will work closely with the President and Board to shape the Foundation’s strategic directions.
Indian Child Welfare at Casey Family Programs is Highlight for Native American Students in Crisis
Release Date:
08/02/2017
... agricultural science. Nearly all of the young people who study in this trailer—officially called the Bridges Career ...
Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops
Release Date:
08/15/2017
... and are used in the food and drug industries. A new study conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science, ...
Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... such as healthcare. There’s also a priority to study the ethical and economic implications of AI, a growing ...
Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... drinking is rising fast among older Americans. Their study , published in JAMA Psychiatry, compared data from a ...
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Is Seeking Applications For Its Conservation Grants Program
Release Date:
11/01/2017
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation is seeking applications for its Conservation Grants Program to support the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era. Deadline : 15...
Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times
Release Date:
11/02/2017
Ms. Bioh, a native New Yorker whose parents emigrated from Ghana in 1968, has made it her mission, theatrically and personally, to tell stories about African and African-American characters that buck expectation and defy stereotype.
Mario Luis Small Joins Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees
Release Date:
11/27/2017
... honors. His latest book is Someone to Talk To (2017), a study of how people decide whom to approach when seeking ...
New Research Supported By Simons Foundation Points to Cellular Roots of Autism
Release Date:
12/05/2017
... be a factor contributing to the disorder. In the current study , published online December 8, 2017 in Cell Reports, the ...
With Support from Gerstner and Heckscher Foundations, SUNY Announces Emergency Aid to Support Degree Completion Among Students
Release Date:
12/19/2017
Starting next year, University at Albany students who are at risk of dropping out due to sudden financial hardship or some other emergency situation could be eligible to apply for emergency aid.
Report Funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Finds That California Traffic Fines Prey on Poor
Release Date:
01/08/2018
A recent report by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, found that Bay Area sheriffs were four to 16 times more likely to book African Americans and Latinos into...
Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database
Release Date:
01/09/2018
... brings new digital tools and analytical approaches to the study of African slavery and the Atlantic slave trade,' said .....