Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Shut Down January 1; Profiled in Jerusalem Post
Release Date:
01/07/2016
... action, as they launched Taglit-Birthright Israel, and I have tried helping him in my own insignificant ways in that ...
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Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls
Release Date:
02/05/2016
... the country, including one Thursday in Santa Fe. “We have to provide leadership and strive to make everyone completely uncomfortable until we have women at the table where everybody is comfortable,” ...
WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA
Release Date:
03/08/2016
... Control and Prevention confirm what many private surveys have shown: that the proportion of Americans under 65 who ... are often high, some charge; many of the newly insured have public coverage through...
Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas
Release Date:
03/09/2016
... finds hospitals that are in urban areas, are nonprofit, or have a relatively small share of Medicare patients are more ... spending and improve care coordination, many hospitals have teamed up with accountable...
NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements
Release Date:
03/17/2016
... the lives of transgender people worldwide, some might have wondered: is such an audacious goal achievable? Unlike ... most marginalized groups. Does philanthropy really have a useful role to play in...
Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast
Release Date:
05/09/2016
... 10, thousands of New Yorkers will feast on food that would have ordinarily ended up in a landfill. Together ... from fresh, top-quality ingredients that would otherwise have gone uneaten. Prior to the event,...
Commonwealth Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine?
Release Date:
05/26/2016
... care. It also discusses changes under way that could have profound effects on primary care in the two countries... ...
Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building
Release Date:
07/05/2016
... Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ ... costs of the projects we’re funding….At Ford, we have been willing participants in this charade...
Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... Educational Inequality At many universities that have eliminated legacy preference, alumni have still continued to donate in large numbers. For example, ...
Morgan Stanley Renews Commitment of $8 Million to Feeding America
Release Date:
09/23/2016
... Feeding America launched in 2009, over 11,000 employees have volunteered more than 60,000 hours with Feeding America food banks, and over 50 million meals have been distributed. “Feeding America and its...
JPMorgan Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities
Release Date:
10/21/2016
... revitalize neighborhoods in their respective cities that have been left behind by the recovery. “The 2016 PRO Neighborhoods winners have come to the table with very exciting partnerships that ...
Century Foundation Report Cited in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’s America
Release Date:
12/12/2016
... Islamic State and other jihadists now inside Syria— have been obviously impossible for some time now, at least in ... Syria and support for the Syrian opposition mostly would have made sense in more cynical...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities
Release Date:
12/13/2016
... graduation rates is being announced today in an attempt to have more students from modest backgrounds graduate from ... by the year 2025. A group of 30 colleges and universities have signed on to the...
With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... Hunters Discover New Primate Species Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to ... in northern India for six years. Although paleontologists have scoured this region for a century...
Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative
Release Date:
04/04/2017
... strong genetic component. To date, approximately 50 genes have been identified that almost certainly play a role in ... over 49,500 people from across the country, 19,500 of whom have autism. With 25 clinical...
MetLife Foundation Announces Sponsorship of “Multipliers of Prosperity” for a Third Year
Release Date:
04/05/2017
... shares insights and chronicles the triumphs of people who have taken steps towards financial stability and the providers who have helped them reach their goals... MetLife Foundation ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Highlights Coal Communities in Latest Film
Release Date:
05/01/2017
... the possibility of losing its federal funding, which would have a crippling effect on its work—and on the former ... while cleaning up environmental disasters coal companies have so often left behind.....
Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training
Release Date:
06/13/2017
... year. Whatever the contours of the bill, the plan will have to first overcome a significant problem that already ... As the president and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin have rightly said, America’s low...
Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper
Release Date:
07/11/2017
... Some papers, such as Flowers, Elvi and the new Ali, have a distinctly Warhol feel. Others, such as Crowd (Where’s Warhol), are more suggestive. I have used Crowd a couple of times in powder rooms — it’s ...
Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade
Release Date:
07/20/2017
... tobacco epidemic published today finds that more countries have implemented tobacco control policies, ranging from ... were covered. Strategies to implement such policies have saved millions of people from an...