Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Launches Research on Genes That Cause Autism
Release Date:
04/25/2016
... The Simons Foundation Autism Research Institute (SFARI) is funding and directing the research, whose project name is ...
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New York Community Trust Brings Reading Instruction Program to the Bronx
Release Date:
04/29/2016
Thanks to a $600,000 grant from the New York Community Trust Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education, Teaching Matters brought its program to improve reading instruction in early grades to eight high-poverty schools in the Bronx, including P.S...
JPB Foundation Research Finds Advanced Energy Driving Job Growth in Renewables, Smart Buildings
Release Date:
05/02/2016
Building on a state's strengths in advanced energy technology can maximize job growth and give a state a competitive economic edge, according to research from the American Jobs Project.
Russell Sage Foundation Study Finds Gaps in Educational Attainment Among Students of Different Incomes
Release Date:
05/04/2016
While the difference in high school graduation rates between high- and low-income students shrunk, inequality may have shifted to higher education, with gaps growing in college attendance and completion.
Rockefeller Foundation Gives $6M to Help 100,000 Inner City School Children See 'Hamilton'
Release Date:
06/24/2016
... musical "Hamilton." The foundation said Thursday the funding would allow students at some public schools in .....
U.S. States, Rockefellers Clash With U.S. House Panel on Exxon Climate Probes
Release Date:
06/27/2016
The pushback is the latest chapter in a high-stakes fight to tackle climate change.
Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to Launch Iterative Learning Fellowship
Release Date:
07/08/2016
The grant builds on the recent success of the Mellon Foundation-funded Arts@TheCore initiative from 2012.
William T. Grant Foundation Invites Proposals for New York City Youth Service Improvement Grants
Release Date:
07/25/2016
The William T. Grant Foundation seeks to improve the lives of youth by supporting small to medium-size organizations that have already had some success but lack the funds to make needed improvements.
Novo, Ford Foundations Create Authentic Relationships That are Key to Achieving Equitable Philanthropy
Release Date:
09/06/2016
Philanthropy typically stands at arm’s length. It is for the funded nonprofit organization to touch, engage, and understand.
NY Life Foundation Supports Social- Emotional Learning In Middle Schools
Release Date:
10/05/2016
... three-year grant from the New York Life Foundation. The funding will help to strengthen social-emotional learning in ...
Simons Foundations Awards Grants To UH Mānoa Mathematics Professors
Release Date:
10/05/2016
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Assistant Professors Sarah Post and Rob Harron were each awarded a collaboration grant for mathematicians from the Simons Foundation.
Carnegie Corporation of New York Supports Group to Register Dominican-American Political Power
Release Date:
10/06/2016
... The non-profit group Dominicanos USA got initial funding from the Vicini family, wealthy Dominican sugar ...
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2016
New York Foster Youth Funders Group - Fall Meeting
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 -
9:00am to 11:00am
... Funders Group is a peer network of grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of foster youth in New ... foster youth in New York, as well as share our own funding priorities. Philanthropy New York...
With Support From Ford, Media Foundation for West Africa Holds Meeting on Peaceful Elections
Release Date:
10/11/2016
... Institutions represented at the event, held in Tamale with funding support from Ford Foundation, included the Ghana ...
William T. Grant Foundation Supports Study Examining Student Involvement in Racial Justice Movements
Release Date:
10/14/2016
A new study, funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, from North Carolina State University, the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, finds that women college students are more active than men in racial justice movements – and that...
Pershing Square Supports Social Entrepreneurship and Mobile Healthcare
Release Date:
10/19/2016
... scratching their heads—particularly when it came to funding . However, they went on to secure philanthropic ...
Wallace Foundation Has Been Betting Big on Principals. What's It Learning?
Release Date:
11/01/2016
... Big on Principals. What's It Learning? With its education funding Wallace Foundation is all about the importance of .....
New York Women's Foundation President Ana Oliveira Encourages Funders to Support Riskier Causes
Release Date:
11/03/2016
Since 2006, under Ana Oliveira’s leadership, the grant-making of what is billed as the largest women’s fund in the country increased from $1.7 million to $6 million to help women and girls in poverty across New York City.
Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Forest Restoration Gets a Tiny Fraction of the Money it Needs
Release Date:
11/09/2016
... that only 13 percent to 17 percent of the total annual funding needs for restoration and conservation are met — ...
Long Island Community Foundation Supports Diversity Through International Food Tasting at Gala Fresh Farms
Release Date:
11/15/2016
One of the goals of the newly formed Peconic River Community Development Alliance is to bring people of different backgrounds and ethnicities together in Riverhead Town.