Century Foundation Report: The Real Price of College
Release Date:
03/15/2016
... aid means that college is not as expensive as people think it is. But they overlook a substantial problem: for many ...
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Commonwealth Research Cited by NYTimes on Reducing Bounce Between Health Plans
Release Date:
03/23/2016
Millions of Americans are finding Obamacare to be unstable ground. An analysis by the Commonwealth Fund found that offering 12 months of continuous Medicaid eligibility would reduce churning by 30 percent.
Cuban-American Artist Garcia Ferraz Exhibits Latest Works Supported by Ford Foundation Grant in Media Arts
Release Date:
04/14/2016
A notable voice in Cuban-American art, Garcia Ferraz has received many of this country’s prestigious art awards. They include a Ford Foundation grant in media arts, a MacArthur Foundation media grant, and a Richard Diebenkorn teaching fellowship.
U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance
Release Date:
05/31/2016
... of work and have personally invested themselves and their families in their businesses. While there are distinct ...
Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others
Release Date:
07/15/2016
Warren Buffett has donated roughly $2.9 billion more Berkshire Hathaway Inc stock to five foundations, as part of the billionaire's plan to give away almost his entire fortune.
Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... a huge boost to students who don’t necessarily need it . “This is a preference that preferences the already ...
Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children
Release Date:
09/07/2016
... an especially big academic hurdle for poor children, whose families might not have time or money for camps or enrichment ...
Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed
Release Date:
11/11/2016
... his own party described as a classic authoritarian. How is it possible that tens of millions of Americans supported a ... critics), the rule of law (endorsing the murder of the families of terrorists), and the...
Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education
Release Date:
12/14/2016
... by a University of Kansas professor. “Young adults from families in the top quarter of the wealth distribution ... outcomes, and the findings of this study suggest that it matters even in young adulthood.” The...
Catholic Charities Announces $800,000 Grant from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
Release Date:
01/31/2017
... medically fragile senior citizens, children and families in crisis, recent immigrants and individuals with ...
Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity
Release Date:
02/27/2017
... in its many forms has changed the world as we know it ... Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition ...
With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... named the new species Ramadapis sahnii and said that it existed 11 to 14 million years ago. It is a member of the ancient Sivaladapidae primate family, ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tiffany & Co. Foundation and Others Partner to Launch '50 Reefs' Global Initiative to Protect Critical Ecosystem
Release Date:
02/28/2017
Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Australian nonprofit Ocean Agency, and the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, has announced the launch of a global...
Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation's Investment Committee
Release Date:
04/24/2017
Lisa joins John Levy (Chair), Myra Drucker and William Goetzmann, who currently serve as independent advisory members on the Investment Committee.
Helmsley Charitable Trust and Tiffany & Co. Foundation Support Effort to Untangle a Growing Web of Ocean Conservation Funding
Release Date:
04/26/2017
... Funding Ocean conservation philanthropy is global, and it ’s local. It ’s market-based and regulatory. It ’s about blue whales and microbes. It ’s as expansive ...
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program
Release Date:
04/27/2017
The program is designed to give select nursing and medical students exposure to strategies, skills and programs that are being successfully implemented in settings they are likely to encounter in the field.
Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access
Release Date:
05/08/2017
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage provisions have extended health insurance coverage to millions of Americans. While the effects of the Medicaid expansion and marketplace establishments on coverage have been well studied, the resulting...
HSBC Gives $1.5M to Scale Up Horizons Learning Programs
Release Date:
05/16/2017
... achievement gap between children from high- and low-income families is roughly 30 to 40 percent larger among children ... to an Afterschool Alliance national study, 33% of families said at least one child...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement
Release Date:
05/19/2017
... collect Social Security benefits, inherit money from their families or receive income from the sale of a home or other ...
Commonwealth Fund: What Might a Medicaid Work Requirement Mean?
Release Date:
05/31/2017
... budget proposal lacks detail, presumably, like the AHCA, it would incorporate the work requirement rules found in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which provides temporary cash ...