NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust
Release Date:
04/13/2016
... from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy' s Philamplify initiative found. The Trust is the ... in the U. S . The foundation' s grantmaking and initiatives have...
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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... to meet the demands of increasingly picky readers? There have been several partnerships going back to the previous ... print-digital The Daily Progress (owned by Warren Buffet’ s BH Media Group) that serves...
Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer
Release Date:
09/28/2016
... for proteins. Two big questions facing scientists are: How much of this “non-coding” RNA is actually functional? ... are long non-coding RNAs, or lncRNAs. About 16,000 lncRNAs have been identified in humans,...
Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed
Release Date:
11/11/2016
Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump' s Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed The 2016 ... of his own party described as a classic authoritarian. How is it possible that tens of millions of...
Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism
Release Date:
11/18/2016
... better than any European or Asian nation today. It’ s an extraordinary success story. But how should this diversity shape our politics? The standard ... gender and sexual identity that has distorted liberalism...
An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools
Release Date:
12/22/2016
... but fewer focus on ensuring such access to the nation’ s top institutions of higher education. Of course, there' s been lots of talk about exactly this challenge: How to open up the...
A New MIT-Led Simons Foundation Collaboration Aims to Understand Basic Principles and Laws of Microbial Ecosystems
Release Date:
05/30/2017
... Ecosystems Model microorganisms grown in pure cultures have been the basis of biological research for many decades ... and these communities play fundamental roles in earth’ s ecosystems. Despite their...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... bank isn’t the flashiest of grants. But this funding can have major repercussions, including whether or not a low-income family finds housing, or how prosperous a neighborhood will be a decade from now. To...
Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!
Release Date:
07/19/2017
... equitable neighborhoods and communities — and learning how to turn ideals into outcomes. PLACES Fellows: ▪ Are ... peer relationships with other leaders in philanthropy. ▪ Have a broad range of philanthropic...
Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’ s Green City Force Growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Edna McKay never expected she would one day have a full-time job in the sustainable energy industry. She ... eight-...
The New Bedtime Story Is a Podcast
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... for kids “Wow in the World” debuted in May, he’ s listened to every episode three times. “It’ s a little ... summer for a live taping of his podcast for grown-ups, “ How I Built This,” James...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers
Release Date:
02/02/2018
... encourage development of the disease, and the same species have been found in people who develop a sporadic form of ... by the same researchers shows a possible mechanism behind how one of these species spurs...
Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, University of Michigan Researchers Building System to Safeguard Confidential Data
Release Date:
06/07/2018
... research firm to influence the outcome of the 2016 U. S . presidential election. Many were left wondering how data accessed by established researchers could have been used inappropriately and...
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Gives Stem Programs Over $5 Million
Release Date:
09/13/2018
... The grants are up to $250,000 each. "This is going to have a tremendous impact by allowing us to evolve our program ... of the Buffalo Maritime Center, which teaches youth how to build wooden boats as a...
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#PoliceFreeSchools Funders Briefing with the Schott Foundation
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
... protests against police violence and white supremacy have garnered new levels of public attention and strengthened ... these and other allied partners in the Schott Foundation’ s National Opportunity to Learn...
United Way of NYC President & CEO Gordon Campbell to Step Down
Release Date:
04/02/2012
... 2012. Campbell will be joining New York University’ s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service as a ... I know in improving education, income stability, and health , and strengthening the capacity of...
Ford Foundation Appoints Dr. Francisco Cigarroa to Board of Trustees
Release Date:
10/28/2014
... of Texas System, consisting of nine universities and six health institutions. He assumed the position in 2009 and as a ... appointed by President George W. Bush to the President’ s Committee on the National...
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2016
Urban Agriculture & Social Justice Activism
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 -
5:30pm to 7:30pm
... focused explicitly on dismantling oppressive systems have the greatest potential to achieve substantive social ... Cohen, Author, Associate Professor, CUNY School of Public Health Kristin Reynolds, Lecturer,...
Report Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Finds That Post-Ebola Cataract Surgery Can Safely Restore Vision
Release Date:
04/04/2018
... An estimated 13 to 34 percent of Ebola survivors have developed uveitis with varying degrees of severity ... procedures on Ebola survivors possibly pose a risk to health care workers and other close contacts...
Ed Henry to Step Down from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation at Year End
Release Date:
02/12/2020
... and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. “Ed’ s leadership, imagination and energy have served the foundation and grantees with extraordinary ... children and those in native communities. The African...