MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa
Release Date:
03/17/2015
... formal jobs or explore opportunities in agriculture. The new program is noteworthy not only for its scope, but for its ...
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Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark
Release Date:
03/12/2015
... and AeroFarms, together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), announce ... in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ into the world’ s largest indoor vertical farm...
Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
Release Date:
03/25/2015
... Project and sustain ongoing education programs in U. S . and internationally. The Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project is a new NFTE initiative which offers dedicated programming, ...
Jonas Center Releases Homelessness Report Targeting Female Veterans
Release Date:
03/26/2015
... transferrable career skills and difficulty adjusting to new self-identities in civilian culture.... Jonas Center ...
Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'
Release Date:
04/03/2015
... knock over their grande latte, and audibly mutter, "What' s the point?" This problem is particularly acute among ... $515,000 to technology and media organizations to "support new work to...
Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017
Release Date:
04/10/2015
... Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U. S . Coal Plants By 2017 The Sierra Club and Michael ... coal-fired power shut down or slated for closure in the U. S . in the next two years. Coal plants are...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project
Release Date:
04/13/2015
... Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities throughout the U. S . Since then, the program has distributed more than $27 ... of the most significant...
JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good
Release Date:
05/21/2015
... designed to address global economic challenges. The new think tank released a groundbreaking inaugural report, ... Volatility: Big Data on the Financial Ups and Downs of U. S . Individuals, that uses...
Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education
Release Date:
06/01/2015
... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation' s new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include ... arts into engineering curricula as part of each campus' s effort...
Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research
Release Date:
06/11/2015
... that drive cancer drug resistance and pave the way for new treatments. “Cancer treatment has seen amazing ... a reality, thanks to the Gerstner Family Foundation’ s generous gift....” Gerstner Family...
John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes
Release Date:
06/12/2015
... the John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to deliver the YMCA' s Diabetes Prevention Program to older adults. The program ... research that has been shown to reduce the number of new type 2 diabetes cases...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients
Release Date:
06/16/2015
... Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $1.6 million to 20 new grantees. Since April 2014, the foundation has awarded a ... jazz, dance or theatre fields in the future. This year’ s group is a thrilling one:...
Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology
Release Date:
06/17/2015
... — and in many cases more than 10% — to investments in new energy over the next five years. These foundations ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust and Sloan Foundation Back Data Science Collaboration
Release Date:
07/08/2015
... and interactive. Think Google Drive with a brain. The new funding comes from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ...
$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies
Release Date:
07/17/2015
... undergraduate curricular initiatives including UMD’ s First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) program, a new initiative to expose first-year undergraduates to rich ...
To Boost Job Prospects, Younger Americans Seek Dentures
Release Date:
08/10/2015
... need has spurred oral care professionals to respond with new ways to make dentures quickly and inexpensively to help ...
Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty
Release Date:
08/18/2015
... by the court to commission artwork to decorate its new building. At the time, some asked whether it was right to ...
D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years
Release Date:
08/27/2015
... charter schools or to organizations, including the New Schools Venture Fund, that support charter schools.... ...
Carnegie-Backed Study Explores Adolescent Girls' Knowledge of HPV and Sexuality in Western Uganda
Release Date:
09/02/2015
... and Sexuality in Western Uganda Globally, about 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer and about 274,000 deaths due to ...
Ford and Atlantic Back Education Policy Think Tank
Release Date:
09/04/2015
... Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the director of Harvard University' s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American ... Calif. but will also have a Washington office. And it' s coming on the scene...