Aetna Foundation Encourages Using Data to Help Tackle Healthcare Disparities
Release Date:
08/11/2015
If population-level healthcare disparities were eliminated, up to 80,000 early deaths in the United States would be prevented each year.
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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter
Release Date:
03/30/2016
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With Help from Mellon Foundation, the National Gallery Celebrates 75 Years
Release Date:
04/08/2016
The National Gallery of Art is such a fixture in Washington that it’s hard to remember that it didn’t open until 1941, thanks to the vision of Andrew Mellon.
Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds
Release Date:
04/28/2016
Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds A $420 ... upon returning home... Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds ...
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Obamacare Is Helping Millions Get Needed Healthcare
Release Date:
05/25/2016
More than 60% of working-age Americans who signed up for Medicaid or a private health plan through the Affordable Care Act are getting healthcare they couldn’t previously get, a new nationwide survey indicates.
Westchester Community Foundation Helps Students Turn Opportunity Into College Degrees
Release Date:
06/21/2016
Last month, four former Yonkers Public Schools students graduated from the private liberal-arts college in Vermont's Green Mountains with four-year degrees.
American Express Grant Will Help Renovations at Historic Utah Pickle Company Building
Release Date:
11/03/2017
American Express teamed up with private, non-profit group called The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Main Street America teamed up with and held a nationwide competition between 25 cities to grant them up to $150,000 to restore a...
Jonas Center Support For Online Tutorials Helps Healthcare Students
Release Date:
06/17/2014
The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, Khan Academy and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) are providing online tutorials to supplement the learning of healthcare students, practitioners and patients worldwide.
MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
01/21/2015
$15 million will support the development of new ideas, and $35 million wil help scale promising ideas or pilots.
NoVo Grant Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Fight Prostitution Charges
Release Date:
05/19/2015
Legal Aid works to vacate the records of sex trafficking victims.
Citi Director and NYC Commissioner Jointly Advocate for Helping Immigrants Become Citizens
Release Date:
01/14/2016
Naturalization may lead to an average increase in individual earnings of 8.9%, or $3,200, in the first year after becoming a U.S. citizen, according to new research. If all eligible immigrants were to naturalize, employment and homeownership rates...
Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps
Release Date:
10/19/2016
School districts and charter schools across the country increasingly are pursuing socioeconomic integration, with data on those efforts suggesting positive outcomes for both low- and middle-income students, a report from the Century Foundation finds.
Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Mayo's pain program is one of a few around the country to address the emotional, social and psychological aspects of pain and reduce patients' reliance on addictive medicines. But as the nation faces an opioid epidemic, there needs to be more of...
A Brooklyn Food Festival Dishes Out Extra Helpings of Culinary Theory
Release Date:
09/11/2017
During the course of the year, New Yorkers have no shortage of food events to attend. But Taste Talks, a culinary showcase that wrapped up its fifth annual edition this past weekend, aims to be something different, organizers say.
Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP
Release Date:
11/28/2017
Socially conscious investors can look forward to two new exchange-traded funds that aim to direct capital to companies that do well by minorities and women.
Helmsley Trust Awards $5.4 Million to Help Standardize Clinical Data
Release Date:
09/04/2018
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust in New York City has announced a $5.4 million grant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) in support of the Texas-based consortium's efforts to standardize clinical data and...
Morgan Stanley Helps Address Housing, Health and Employment Needs in Washington D.C.
Release Date:
07/30/2015
Morgan Stanley is among the financial supporters of the $34 million initiative facilitated by the Healthy Futures Fund.
Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis
Release Date:
02/13/2019
Johnson & Johnson announced a comprehensive 10-year initiative in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target of ending the TB pandemic by 2030.
Critics of State’s Campaign Finance Laws Seek Philanthropists’ Help
Release Date:
01/24/2013
Representatives from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Open Society Foundations attended a meeting organized by the Piper Fund to enlist support for changing New York’s campaign finance laws.
Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects
Release Date:
06/12/2013
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School have announced the six winners of a national competition to provide technical assistance to state and local governments looking to develop "...