Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... 25 years, Oklahoma has led the nation in the rate at which it sends women to prison. Roughly 151 of every 100,000 ...
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While Announcing Main Branch Renovations, NYPL Notes Mid-Manhattan Library to Be Renamed for Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Release Date:
11/16/2017
... Public Library revealed the $317 million master plan that will guide the renovation of the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman ... and Genealogy reading rooms, and Astor Hall. The plan will include the transformation...
Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers
Release Date:
11/29/2017
... Peter Gault, Quill’s executive director — enabling it to address the big issues of sentence fragments and ... a building block of language and writing. “For teachers, it was such a big challenge to implement...
Ford Foundation Appoints Roy Swan to Lead Mission Investments Portfolio
Release Date:
12/05/2017
... of its Mission Investments team based in New York. Swan will lead a dedicated team managing the portfolio announced ... a passion for using finance to achieve social impact, Swan will begin his new position on...
Tax Bill Glitch Endangers Future of Newman’s Own Foundation
Release Date:
01/03/2018
... in the federal tax overhaul that would have spared it from an unusual 200 percent tax hike it is facing, when the Senate parliamentarian forced lawmakers to strip it out of the massive bill...
Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues
Release Date:
01/24/2018
... same neurons are active in both encoding and remembering, it ’s unknown what neural events control whether hippocampal ... one of the keys to better understanding FXS, which impairs use of memory in multiple...
JPMorgan Chase to Increase Its Philanthropic Investments to $1.75 Billion Over Five Years
Release Date:
01/31/2018
... deep dive , already tops $250 million a year, putting it up there with many large foundations. Now, JPMorgan ... be receiving—in contrast to most ordinary taxpayers— will be put to good use...
Supported By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Scientists Create New Therapeutic Gel That Shows Promise Against Cancerous Tumors
Release Date:
02/22/2018
... surgically removed. “We’ve created a simple method to use chemotherapy while leveraging the biology of the tumor ...
OSF Report Finds That Women Are Vastly Outnumbered at Europe’s Top Policy Events
Release Date:
03/08/2018
... policies being debated affect women and men equally— it ’s perplexing that in 2018 women still don’t have an ...
All Proceeds From the Auction of David and Peggy Rockefeller's Art Collection Will Go to Charity
Release Date:
03/15/2018
... Auction of David and Peggy Rockefeller's Art Collection Will Go to Charity Christie's will auction off the collection of David and Peggy ... scrambled eggs I've ever had.' We used to kid...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards Critical Path Institute a Grant to Focus on Crohn's disease
Release Date:
04/16/2018
... disease biomarker pre-consortium. The pre-consortium will identify unmet needs for the use of biomarkers in developing new treatments for people ... for Crohn's disease patients. The pre-consortium...
MasterCard Foundation Commits 100 million to Projects Within Its Young Africa Works Strategy
Release Date:
04/16/2018
... the population is growing so fast that by 2035, there will be more young people entering the continent’s ... be solved with better training and education, savvy use of technology, and wider financial inclusion...
Research Supported by The Helmsley Charitable Trust Grant Provides New Insight Into Neurological Disorders
Release Date:
04/17/2018
... behind in new therapies. Because the brain is so complex, it can be difficult to discover new drugs and even when a drug is promising in animal models, it often doesn’t work for humans. Scientists are aiming...
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Tech Tools: Virtual Site Visits, Data Analysis, and Board Activities - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP
Thursday, November 8, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
... work. Every day there are new inventions that you can use to engage further with your community, track success, and ... click the Register Now link above. (no fee) R egistrants will receive the webinar link a...
OSF Leaving Hungary Under Government Pressure
Release Date:
05/15/2018
... Soros’s Open Society Foundations said on Tuesday that it had become impossible to work in Hungary, whose prime ... offices in the country of Mr. Soros’s birth — they will continue to operate in many other...
Century Foundation and the 74 Present Case Studies on Diversity-Driven Classrooms
Release Date:
05/29/2018
From California to Rhode Island, Four Case Studies of Schools That Have Baked Diversity Into Their School Design.
Newman's Own Foundation Announces New Class of Fellows
Release Date:
06/06/2018
... Own Foundation welcomes a new class of Fellows, as it enters the fourth year of its Fellowship Program. There will be 14 new Fellows starting the program, as 17 Fellows ... an experience they will...
Emmett Carson Steps Down as Silicon Valley Fund Admits Missteps
Release Date:
06/28/2018
... impacted." Without getting into specifics, the board said it is committed to "expeditiously undertaking" ... said, noting that nobody had raised any concerns about the use of donated funds. A...
McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund Launches at the Aspen Institute
Release Date:
07/10/2018
... ventures at vital inflection points. A total of $110,000 will be granted to six organizations around the world that ... AGLN Fellows, including those of McNulty Prize Laureates. It was made possible through a...
The Culture Pass Initiative Launches in New York City with Support from Stavros Niarchos Foundation, New York Community Trust and Charles H. Revson Foundation
Release Date:
07/18/2018
... Through Culture Pass, participating cultural institutions will provide day-passes for library cardholders to reserve ... devices, or anywhere they access the internet—then use the printed or digital pass to...