Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science
Release Date:
03/15/2014
... and unveiled “the next great American project”: a $100 million initiative to probe the mysteries of the human brain. ...
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The Citi Foundation Launches Pathways to Progress to Improve Career Readiness for 100,000 Youth
Release Date:
03/31/2014
... today announced Pathways to Progress, a three-year $50 million initiative to unlock economic opportunity for 100,000 ...
Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s
Release Date:
05/17/2014
Cathy Schoe of Commonwealth Fund quoted in New York Times article on doctor's salaries.
Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making
Release Date:
05/22/2014
... money to pay for itself and potentially another $900 million worth of resiliency projects around the city by ...
De Blasio unveils 30-member task force charged with overhauling NYC’s job-training and workforce-placement programs
Release Date:
05/20/2014
... minimum-wage jobs, costing city taxpayers more than $500 million for all the training and placement programs. The new ...
New York is building one of the nation’s largest computer databases of medical records
Release Date:
06/01/2014
New York is quietly building one of the nation’s largest computer databases of medical records, a system that when finished will allow patients and doctors alike to see complete health histories in one place and promises to save millions in costs by...
Pinkerton Foundation Launches Literacy Initiative in Queens
Release Date:
06/01/2014
... in South Jamaica, Queens, and awarded nearly $1.2 million in grants in support of the community-based program. ...
Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal
Release Date:
06/13/2014
... as of May, Mertz Gilmore had given about a half a million in 2014 to its alternatives to coal program, with ...
Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies
Release Date:
06/23/2014
... and Math Studies Four universities will share $2.4 million from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a three-year, ...
Carnegie "Opportunity by Design" Schools To Help Immigrant Students
Release Date:
07/17/2014
... Schools along with CASA of Maryland--recipients of a $3 million grant from Carnegie--will accept 100 students at each ...
Advisory Board Picked to Help Move Community Schools Plan Forward
Release Date:
07/17/2014
... inequality crisis. Last month, the city awarded a $52 million grant to the United Way to open 40 of the new ...
Do Health Care Costs Fuel Economic Inequality in the United States?
Release Date:
09/09/2014
... definitive. From the perspective of the more than 150 million Americans who receive health insurance through their ...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Will Divest Charity From Fossil Fuels
Release Date:
09/22/2014
... from Standard Oil is planning announced that its $860 million philanthropic organization, the Rockefeller Brothers ...
Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative
Release Date:
10/01/2014
... private institutions were joining by “aligning” $270 million of their neuroscience research with the goals and ...
Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality
Release Date:
10/07/2014
Arcus Foundation and Ford Foundation have been featured as two of the top eight funders who made marriage equality happen.
Ford Foundation Heads Group of Philanthropic Leaders to Save Detroit
Release Date:
11/10/2014
The funds will help rescue Detroit from bankruptcy.
Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate
Release Date:
11/20/2014
... wealthy donors, which have given a combined total of $300 million toward immigration, and the role they have played ...
Mastercard Foundation Announces New University Partnerships in Africa
Release Date:
12/08/2014
... by early next year. The Foundation is committing $86.6 million to work in collaboration with four new African ...
Commonwealth Fund Survey Shows Adults Skip Doctor Visits Due to Cost
Release Date:
01/01/2015
... plans cover 60% of working-age Americans, or about 150 million people. Coverage long considered the gold standard of ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco
Release Date:
03/19/2015
... Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg have set up a $4 million fund to help poor countries resist pressure from big ...