Top Science Foundation, Simons, Latest Endeavor is its Most Ambitious Project Yet
Release Date:
05/15/2017
... with extensive time and funding, and unexpected work might take shape. New ideas could form as computer scientists and ...
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With Support from Carnegie, New Science Standards Deliver Students from Textbooks to ‘Real-World' Applications
Release Date:
05/19/2017
The framework of the standards, consisting of three different dimensions, is a vision of how the National Research Council indicates what it means to be proficient in science.
Chef Massimo Bottura's First U.S. Project Will Be a Rockefeller-supported Bronx Soup Kitchen
Release Date:
05/30/2017
... has begun a tradition of setting up Refettorios, which take potential food waste and turn it into meals for people ...
Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities
Release Date:
07/11/2017
The billionaire on Monday donated about $3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the NoVo Foundation as well as four other family charities, Reuters reports. This marks his 12th annual donation to the group of charities.
Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/01/2017
... Sometimes it’s the smaller foundations that take on the most audacious goals. Like the Bullitt ...
Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed
Release Date:
08/08/2017
... on Public Higher Ed As colleges and universities flock to take their academic programs online, many of them work with ...
Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues
Release Date:
08/16/2017
... or penalty to how well the underlying project works. "You take the risk off the project not working" for city .....
Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change
Release Date:
08/21/2017
The patriarch of the Simons clan is best known for his math chops and science philanthropy. But heirs Nat and Liz Simons are taking the family’s hedge fund fortune a different direction with some serious climate giving.
How to Improve Diversity in Corporate America
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... our international competitiveness unless we continue to take a stand against white nationalism and supremacy — both ...
What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’s Move to Roll Back DACA
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... would lobby its Congressional representatives to " take action to provide protection for our undocumented .....
Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’s Far West Side
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... New York City. The retail giant signed a 15-year lease to take about 360,000 square feet at Five Manhattan West, a ...
New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries
Release Date:
09/25/2017
President Trump on Sunday issued a new order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing threats to national security posed by letting...
A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... marketing (“Beef, it’s what’s for dinner”). They take advantage of taxpayer-funded research at state ...
Assemblyman Peter Lopez Picked as New EPA Regional Administrator
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... ALBANY — State Assemblyman Peter Lopez will take over this weekend as the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... and temperature around the world. The sensors currently take measurements from the top 1.25 miles of ocean, and while ...
Immigration Agents Arrest Hundreds in Sweep of Sanctuary Cities
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... to jails to interview suspects and where its requests to take those arrested into custody are not honored. The ...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Our Compelling Interests
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... series, demographer and author William H. Frey stated, “ I am convinced that the United States is in the midst of a ... indeed planning properly, and what shape that plan must take if we are to be successful...
New York’s Graduation Rate Could Drop Under New Federal Education Law
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... Law New York state’s high school graduation rate may take a hit due to an under-the-radar provision in the new ...
Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... tax code would be a welcome change for many Americans, I join many of our nonprofit colleagues in believing that the ...
Universal Deduction Bill Draws Measured Praise
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... who itemize as well as those who do not and merely take the standard deduction, currently $12,700 for married ...