Seeking Just & Sustainable Communities: Surdna Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $14 Million
Release Date:
07/26/2017
... $14 Million The New York City-based Surdna Foundation has announced seventy-two grants totaling more than $14 ...
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Mayor de Blasio Signs Sweeping Legislation to Curb Smoking, Tobacco Usage
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... percent in 2002 to 14.3 percent in 2015, the city still has more than 900,000 smokers. These new bills will help ...
Ai Weiwei's Citywide Public Art Project Elicits Protest From Village Neighborhood Group
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... as “the first neighborhood association” in the city— has released a statement protesting the artist’s proposed ...
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Seeks Applicants for its 2018 Prize for Young Investigators
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... or Facebook. Now entering its fifth year, PSSCRA has awarded the Prize to 25 Primary Investigators. PSSCRA ...
Carnegie Sponsors 9/11 Commemoration "Tribute in Light"
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... of New York, who along with helping install the display, has also aided the 9/11 memorial by starting a program that ...
Iceberg That Broke Off Antarctica Was 4 Times the Size of Manhattan
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... Scientists watch this glacier closely because evidence has been pointing to even faster loss of ice in the future, ...
Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... education system are excellent teachers. Research has consistently identified effective teachers as the most ...
Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... debt to for-profit college accountability. “Yan Cao has served on the front lines representing students defrauded ...
Russell Sage Foundation Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives To Four-Year College Degrees
Release Date:
10/23/2017
... were the key to success.The nation’s education system has become an SAT rat race in which youth are judged on where ...
Mertz Gilmore and Howard Gilman Foundations Among Funders Backing The Springboard Project's 2018 Residencies
Release Date:
10/24/2017
... An influential player in the dance space, the foundation has provided support to New York City-based troupes like the ...
Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound Essential to Formation of Life on Earth
Release Date:
11/07/2017
... structures such as cell walls. However, no one has previously found a substance that was plausibly present ...
David Rockefeller’s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy
Release Date:
11/08/2017
... paintings and hundreds of other items. A photo studio has been set up, too, the better to shoot close-ups for the ...
Newman's Own Tax Break Matters Far Beyond Just One Foundation
Release Date:
11/27/2017
... break up the arrangement, and for the past nine years it has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying Congress ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Announce The Selection Committee For 2017 U.S. Mayors Challenge
Release Date:
11/29/2017
... the fourth Mayors Challenge Bloomberg Philanthropies has held since 2013. Former U.S. Ambassador Caroline ...
Courtney Bryan Joins JPMorgan Chase as Executive Director with Global Philanthropy and Head of the East Region
Release Date:
12/12/2017
... justice, human trafficking and domestic violence. She has also served as a public defender at The Legal Aid Society ...
Russell Sage Foundation Trustee Hiro Yoshikawa and Former Visiting Scholar J. Lawrence Aber Win MacArthur Foundation Grant
Release Date:
12/21/2017
... Win MacArthur Foundation Grant The MacArthur Foundation has awarded a grant of $100 million to the Sesame Workshop ...
Tax Bill Glitch Endangers Future of Newman’s Own Foundation
Release Date:
01/03/2018
... food products are given away though the foundation, which has to date donated $512 million to charities helping ...
Ford Foundation Appoints Hilary Pennington as Executive Vice President
Release Date:
01/19/2018
... filmmaking, journalism, and youth leadership. She has also led its efforts to build and strengthen the broader ...
Bank of America Announces 2018 Museums on Us® Program
Release Date:
01/24/2018
... programming that is global in scope.” Bank of America has established partnerships with more than 200 cultural ...
Supported By The Taft Foundation, Rising Tide U Launches New Online Program, The Autism Advantage
Release Date:
01/31/2018
... autism, not in spite of it." Beta-testing for the program has experienced great success so far, with 14 active .....