Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia
Release Date:
11/17/2015
... on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study dementia. The new organization, the Global Brain Health Institute, will be ...
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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter
Release Date:
03/30/2016
... million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new institute focused solely on the therapy and accelerated ... Bloomberg, the businessman, philanthropist and former New York mayor, has agreed to donate...
Newly-Named Soros Fellows for 2016 Include Six Indian Americans
Release Date:
04/14/2016
... The 18th annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans were announced April 12 and included six Indian ... the 30 recipients. The graduate school Fellowship for New Americans — for immigrants and...
Ford-Supported Survey Finds Black, Hispanic Youth Less Likely To Get Money From Parents
Release Date:
10/06/2016
... smaller expenses, than do whites or Asians, according to a new GenForward poll. And more than half of millennials ... the poll released this week. This information comes from a new GenForward survey of young...
Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates Talks About The Fight Against Discrimination After 9/11
Release Date:
05/07/2014
... Discrimination After 9/11 In this PhilTalk at Philanthropy New York's 35th annual meeting, Farhana Khera , president & ... as a little girl growing up in a small town in Upstate New York, freely...
Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center
Release Date:
05/24/2017
... Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center The ambitious new arts center known as the Shed, rising in Hudson Yards, ... said in a prepared statement. “The Shed will help New York achieve all three goals.” . . ...
NYC Youth Funders Accepting RFPs for 2017 Cycle
Release Date:
06/02/2017
... Located in and serving primarily populations in New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut Annual local budget under $2.5 ...
Bloomberg, Tiffany Support Ocean Conservation and Climate Change Communications
Release Date:
08/03/2017
... organization called The Ocean Agency. Vevers stars in a new documentary, Chasing Coral, which won the Sundance ... Netflix in mid-July. He recently sat down with Adweek in New York during a press tour for the...
Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... of Buildings more than $25,000 in fines from pulling new construction permits, measures that expand the definition ... the civil penalties for it. “Sometimes it feels like in New York City that this city is...
F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... expected to transform treatment in the coming years. The new therapy turns a patient’s cells into a “living ... the disease “devastating and deadly” and said the new treatment fills an “unmet need.” . . F.D.A...
Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... of the nation’s major philanthropists will gather in New York next month to coincide with the United Nations ... Bloomberg, Jeff Skoll, and Bill and Melinda Gates hold new gatherings that promise to update...
Mayor De Blasio: NYC Will Continue to Support People Who Rely on DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... a message for President Trump: Don't mess with your fellow New Yorkers. As a city, we do not take kindly to anything ... for all of us across the United States, but especially in New York — the ultimate...
Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up A majority of New York voters believe Confederate statues or memorials should stay up, according to a new poll, amid pleas for statues of Southern Civil War icons ...
City Council to Consider Expanding Stays at Shelters for Runaway and Homeless Teens, Young Adults
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... able to stay longer in the city’s crisis shelters under new legislation that will be introduced in the City Council ... up from 30 days under current law. Another bill would let New Yorkers up to age 25 stay...
How Much Did These 90 Companies Add to Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... thermometer be attributed to specific energy companies? A new study attempts to do that, and says that more than a ... to account for their contributions to climate change. The new paper, published last week...
Off-Broadway’s Golden Age Faces Financial Hurdles
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... artists who try to make their living off-Broadway in New York City say this is a golden age for their small-scale ... the off-Broadway theaters have welcomed a plethora of new shows—up to 130 a season, says...
Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... parent and teacher groups is vowing to continue boycotting New York’s standardized tests. NYS Allies for Public Education said the new standards do little to move away from the test-based ...
The Fate of NYC’s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... to protest the firing of 24 undocumented immigrants at New York City’s artisanal Tom Cat Bakery last spring. ... and English and chanting for a boycott of Tom Cat bread in New York restaurants, the protesters...
Refugees Rent Trump’s Childhood Home To Send Message To UN Leaders
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... To UN Leaders President Donald Trump’s childhood home in New York had some new occupants over the weekend — refugees who shared their ...
NYC Councilman to Propose Free Babysitting for Community Meetings
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... to Propose Free Babysitting for Community Meetings New York City’s growing government may soon add one more ... at public hearings and community-board meetings under new legislation expected to be introduced...