Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients
Release Date:
06/16/2015
... jazz, dance or theatre fields in the future. This year’ s group is a thrilling one: we are honored to support them ...
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Smart Donors Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge
Release Date:
07/20/2015
... changing times like a glove. But so does Mr. Walker’ s other major strategic shift: doubling Ford’ s commitment to unrestricted grants for nonprofit operating ...
NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability
Release Date:
11/09/2015
... as a chief executive fearful that the company I led would be seen as complicit in the destruction of this remarkable ... to encounter firsthand the land and people put in harm’ s way by the proposed Pebble...
Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas
Release Date:
03/09/2016
A new study comparing accountable care organizations (ACOs) that include hospitals in their networks to those that do not finds hospitals that are in urban areas, are nonprofit, or have a relatively small share of Medicare patients are more likely...
Judith Rodin Steps Down as Head of Rockefeller Foundation
Release Date:
06/16/2016
... Karp, chief executive of Silicon Valley’ s Palantir Technologies Inc. Ms. Rodin praised Mr. Karp for ... disaster happens?” Mr. Karp agreed: “We think this can be transformational,” he later told her,...
Century Foundation Report Cited in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’s America
Release Date:
12/12/2016
... in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’ s America U. S . Syria policy had been due for a major rethink, even before Donald Trump was elected president. America’ s publicly...
Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research
Release Date:
03/21/2017
... The Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain will be based at the university' s Patrick Wild Centre for Research into Autism, Fragile X .....
Mellon Foundation Awards Nearly $3.8 Million for Theater Program
Release Date:
04/11/2017
The New England Foundation for the Arts has announced a three-year, $3.77 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue the work of the National Theater Project.
Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures
Release Date:
07/27/2017
... Foodways and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, led by its Executive Director, Kathleen Lynch, and its projects will be carried out by collaborative, cross-disciplinary...
Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... stays true to its roots as its popularity grows. The U. S . Impact Investing Alliance recently announced the creation ...
Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’ s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid The clock is ticking. Community ... until October 30 to vote on the de Blasio administration’ s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the...
Data-Driven Gender Equality
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... gender-specific data they collect. The foundation is also supporting Equal Measures 2030, an initiative to empower ...
Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... Giving to Come? One of Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’ s major philanthropic priorities has long been ocean ... in funding climate change work. The tech donor’ s latest major grant is right in the sweet spot...
Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... change. Debra Meyerson and Megan Tompkins’ s research, using the National Science Foundation’ s ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan, finds that ...
MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People
Release Date:
11/28/2017
... to short-term savings, to credit accessibility—should be designed for how real people act, using insights from ...
The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico
Release Date:
11/30/2017
... Commission”—announced on November 16, 2017—will be an independent and inclusive body led by Puerto Ricans and ...
Commonwealth Fund Finds Both 'Private Option' and Traditional Medicaid Expansions Improved Access to Care
Release Date:
01/06/2016
... under the Affordable Care Act, were more likely to be insured and less likely to have problems paying medical ...
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The Pence-Kobach Commission's Potential Impact on Voting Rights - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP
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3:00pm to 4:30pm
... an invitation to PNY members. Space is limited and will be granted on a first come, first served basis.* The ... of millions of fraudulent votes in the 2016 election could be used to disenfranchise already...
William T. Grant Foundation Announces Two New Grants to Better Relate Research to Action
Release Date:
04/13/2018
... were studying research itself: how to improve it, how it’ s incentivized, and most importantly, how to “increase ... young people. The former focuses on a single institution’ s relationship with a public...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology
Release Date:
04/27/2018
... a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts ... assumption people have made so far is that backscatter can be used only for low-data rate...