Novo Foundation Launches New Website and Film Series,The Life Story: Moments of Change
Release Date:
02/01/2018
... shares the realities for women in the sex trade in the U. S . and highlights the opportunities they see for change — ...
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Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body
Release Date:
02/06/2018
... a two-step, kneejerk response that first widens the animal' s center of gravity, and then strengthens and stabilizes its ... unexpected changes occur beneath their feet. "Whether it' s tripping...
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...
How the Rockefeller Auction is Leaving an Inspirational Legacy
Release Date:
05/08/2018
... Auction is Leaving an Inspirational Legacy Christie’ s SVP and Director Steven Zick Talks Rockefeller Collection ... auction runs May 8-10. To learn more, visit Christie’ s ... How the Rockefeller Auction is...
Century Foundation Releases First-Ever Inventory on Charter School Diversity
Release Date:
05/15/2018
This report represents the first systematic effort to identify diverse-by-design charter schools and characterize the role of student diversity in school mission and design across the charter sector more generally.
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats
Release Date:
06/25/2018
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind...
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The Supreme Court Nominee and the 2018 Elections - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP
Monday, August 6, 2018 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
... the environment, access to reproductive health, women’ s and LGBTQ rights, and more. The last Supreme Court ...
BNY Mellon Partners With Girls' Leadership Initiative on Stem Boot Camp
Release Date:
08/02/2018
A global leadership development initiative of the United Nations Foundations is partnering with BNY Mellon to bring STEM boot camps to five cities, including Pittsburgh.
Dodge Foundation Awards $3.8 Million to New Jersey Nonprofits
Release Date:
08/13/2018
... $140,000 to Arts Ed NJ in support of that organization' s work to advance arts education for all children in the .....
With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery
Release Date:
08/15/2018
... for why the sticks refused to snap in two. Feynman’ s kitchen experiment remained unresolved until 2005, when ... won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize , seemed to solve Feynman’ s puzzle. But a question remained: Could...
Former VP for Grants at the New York Community Trust and Beloved PNY Member, Joyce Bove, Has Passed Away
Release Date:
08/16/2018
Joyce Marie Joyce Marie Bove, age 67, of New York City, formerly of Stoneham, MA passed away on August 15, 2018 at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
MTV Plans to Partner With Ford Foundation to Create a Mobile Voting Registration Unit
Release Date:
08/20/2018
... to the phrase for bringing a guest to a party—and it’ s designed around the notion that young people place ... even include special appearances by musicians. “MTV’ s mission is to engage and entertain and...
Mike Bloomberg Visits Gary, Ind. for a Conversation about Community Building through the Arts
Release Date:
10/09/2018
... and cultural projects that play a vital role in Gary’ s development and place-making,” said Mayor Karen ...
NoVo Foundation Announce Support for Grassroots Organizations to Address Key Gaps in Local Communities' Responses to Human Trafficking
Release Date:
11/05/2018
Three of the grants were awarded to local nonprofits committed to addressing economic and other social injustices that are at the root of severe exploitation. Each grantee has grassroots community organizing capabilities and the ability to reach...
JPMorgan Spreads its Urban Development Money to Paris
Release Date:
11/05/2018
... to Paris JPMorgan Chase & Co ( JPM.N ), the biggest U. S . bank by assets, said on Sunday that it has selected ... of its revenue. The Paris effort is part of JPMorgan’ s “Advancing Cities” program, which...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Funded Research Solves Genetic ‘Whodunnit’ for Cancer Gene
Release Date:
11/09/2018
... Shaw showed that late-stage cancers can trigger AMPK’ s cellular recycling signal to cannibalize pieces of the ... Shaw, director of the Salk Cancer Center and the paper’ s senior author. “It’ s...
New Study Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation Shows Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering
Release Date:
11/13/2018
Centering science instruction around investigation and design can improve learning in middle and high schools and help students make sense of phenomena in the world around them. Current approaches to science in many classrooms do not reflect this...
Top 5 Brooklyn Nonprofits Named Winners of Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Annual $100,000 Spark Prize
Release Date:
01/15/2019
... Named Winners of Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Annual $100,000 Spark Prize Brooklyn Community Foundation ... woman-led—will receive their awards at the Foundation’ s Spark Breakfast on February 28, 2019 in...
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Public Policy Fellowship Open House
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Spend your evening networking with Philanthropy New York staff, sector professionals, and like-minded peers.
Ford Foundation to Open Gallery for Socially Engaged Art in New York
Release Date:
02/13/2019
... for the real-estate company Two Trees Management. “It’ s a new way to present art, and our goal is to provide a ... new voices for artists.” Darren Walker, the foundation’ s president, said in a statement, “...