Supported by Rockefeller, New Report Shows Resilient Cities Require Resilient Food Systems
Release Date:
02/09/2017
... Portland, Maine, the report, The Resilience of America' s Urban Food Systems: Evidence From Five Cities (71 pages, .....
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With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species
Release Date:
02/28/2017
Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate group distantly connected to monkeys, apes and humans, a USC researcher said
With Support from Carnegie, New Science Standards Deliver Students from Textbooks to ‘Real-World' Applications
Release Date:
05/19/2017
... and according to the New Jersey Department of Education' s Science Coordinator Michael Heinz, the standards shift a student' s thought process to "how things happen, why things happen .....
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Kicks Off Next Week, Supported by Capital One Bank, Doris Duke and Gilman Foundations
Release Date:
08/17/2017
... Parker Jazz Festival. The festival is New York City' s annual salute to the legendary late saxophonist, featuring ... who continue to shape and drive the art form. This year' s festival runs August...
Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... in the Climate and Health Program at Columbia University' s Mailman School of Public Health, the first academic program in climate and health in the U. S ., lead the Consortium, with input from an...
Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Spark Prize Support 20 Local Nonprofits with $100,000 Match on Giving Tuesday
Release Date:
10/17/2017
Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Spark Prize Support 20 Local Nonprofits with $100,000 Match ... on social media. … Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Spark Prize Support 20 Local Nonprofits with $100,000 Match ...
Rita Allen Foundation Supported Report Finds That Civic Tech Struggles with Sustainable Funding Despite Gains
Release Date:
10/31/2017
... Paths to a Sustainable Future, was released by the John S . and James L. Knight Foundation with the Rita Allen Foundation Oct. 31. This is the Knight Foundation’ s first major report on civic tech since a...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria
Release Date:
02/16/2018
In separate studies, researchers test bacteria that suppresses development of malaria parasite, genetic modification that boosts mosquito immune systems
Rita Allen Foundation Supported Research Details Consequences of Kansas’ Lifetime Property Tax Exemptions on Local School Districts
Release Date:
03/02/2018
... by Flatland (Kansas City public TV station KCPT’ s digital magazine) and the Midwest Center for Investigative ...
William T. Grant Foundation Supported Study Finds Trump Immigration Policies Take Mental Toll on Latino Parents
Release Date:
03/22/2018
... health is suffering because of the Trump administration’ s aggressive immigration policies. The study, which was ... said the study shows that President Donald Trump’ s rhetoric and policies to crackdown on...
Arcus Foundation, Casey Family Programs and Other Funders Support Voices of Youth Count
Release Date:
04/27/2018
... provides new insights to the challenges faced by America’ s youth who experience homelessness. “Our study reveals the ... “Given the evidence that our young people are in harm’ s way, we have an obligation to...
New Research Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Finds New Biomarker for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Release Date:
01/29/2019
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, along with collaborators from the University of Iowa, have discovered a genetic biomarker that is associated with age-related macular...
Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation To Help Support Expansion of the Empire State Trail Initiative
Release Date:
09/18/2018
... residents and visitors with expanded access to New York' s world-class natural beauty, driving tourism and economic ... C. Wilson Jr. Foundation will further enhance our State' s picturesque trails,...
With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch the Plant Humanities Initiative
Release Date:
11/13/2018
... of local Cinchona plantations. In Jules Verne’ s 1874 fantasy novel The Mysterious Island, the sulfate of ...
UCLA to Establish Archive on Policing and Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles with Support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Release Date:
01/28/2021
... an ambitious initiative to create one of the nation’ s most diverse collections of materials related to policing ... to official police and criminal justice statistics. UCLA’ s ethnic studies centers — the...
Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients
Release Date:
02/24/2016
... if spread nationwide, can improve the performance of the U. S . healthcare system. Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three ...
Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops
Release Date:
08/15/2017
... was poorly understood. Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann' s Plant and Environmental Sciences Department and Dr. Guy .....
Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers
Release Date:
11/29/2017
... students Quill.org aims to help, the writing assistant’ s algorithms get smarter the more they practice. The nonprofit’ s Quill Connect tool, designed to improve students’ writing ... algorithms morph and...
Commonwealth Fund Supported Report Shows Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States
Release Date:
12/14/2017
... the first three years following the Affordable Care Act’ s major health coverage expansions, according to a new ... scorecard assessing access to health care. New Mexico’ s rate dropped the most between 2013...
A New Study Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Reveals that Antioxidant Therapy Prevents Vision Loss in Rare Birth Defect
Release Date:
02/07/2018
... Birth Defect A new study led by vision researchers at UB’ s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the ... Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome (SLOS). Caused by the body’ s inability to make cholesterol...