Sage Foundation Research Indicates Americans May Not Be Ready for Tax Increase on Wealthy
Release Date:
05/11/2016
... struggling to balance budgets while maintaining spending for popular programs. That’s prompted some ...
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Carnegie Corporation of New York Funds Primer to Guide Students on College Choices
Release Date:
10/17/2016
The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences received $2.2 million from Carnegie Corporation of New York for this initiative.
'Marjorie Prime' Wins Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at Sundance for Focus on Science and Technology
Release Date:
03/29/2017
FilmRise has acquired U.S. rights to Sundance winner “Marjorie Prime” and is planning a mid-summer release and a fall awards push for star Lois Smith, the distributor announced Tuesday.
NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing
Release Date:
04/17/2017
Last week, the foundation announced that it would commit $1 billion to investments that “earn not only attractive financial returns but concrete social returns as well,” as it said in a news release.
Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries
Release Date:
05/12/2017
To inform discussion of possible changes to Medicare, this issue brief looks at beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs by income and health status.
Philanthropy vs. Tyranny: Inside the Open Society Foundations' Biggest Battle Yet
Release Date:
08/21/2017
The Open Society Foundations is bigger than you think. In fact, it may be the largest philanthropic organization ever built, with branches in 37 countries.
Creating A Positive Workplace Culture - A Little Kindness Goes A Long Way
Release Date:
08/28/2017
On methods and benefits of promoting positivity in the workplace
Twenty Years After Suffragists Statue Victory, The Quest Continues For A National Women's History Museum
Release Date:
09/20/2017
Earlier this year, a bill was introduced in the House by Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Edward R. Royce (R-Calif.) to create "a comprehensive women's history museum" within the Smithsonian. The group is trying to get support for a companion...
Making Kids Into “Makers”
Release Date:
09/22/2017
The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building something to address a problem in their community.
Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... Around the world, hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, ...
JPMorgan Chase Puts Funding Towards New York Workforce Development
Release Date:
10/31/2017
... banking and financial services holding company, is spending the money on two new programs targeting workers and ...
Jim Simons, the Numbers King
Release Date:
12/13/2017
... relatively limited, and when he retired he found himself spending most of his time managing his charitable assets and ...
Peterson Foundation on National Debt Surpassing $21 Trillion
Release Date:
03/19/2018
... the effects of the recent fiscally irresponsible tax and spending legislation, which added more debt on top of an ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty
Release Date:
05/07/2018
The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will include roughly a dozen two-year visiting faculty fellowships, according to Gennifer Weisenfeld, dean of the humanities at Duke.
Atlantic Philanthropies Releases Publication on Operating for Limited Life
Release Date:
12/11/2018
... trajectory that is typically associated with the term “ spending out,” Atlantic’s culminating phase was conceived ...
Health Care Innovators Are Filmmakers and Farmers, Not Physicians, Insurers, Hospitals and Drug Companies
Release Date:
12/12/2016
... Companies by David Sandman, President and CEO, New York State Health Foundation Originally published on the ... Post and re-posted with permission from the New York State Health Foundation. If you’re on a...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Names Leisle Lin and William B. Petersen as New Senior Vice Presidents
Release Date:
02/01/2012
... Officer. Leisle Lin joined the Sloan Foundation in 2010 as Vice President for Finance and Board Secretary, where ... Vice President of the Nathan Cummings Foundation (2005- 2010 ) and before that held numerous...
Oxiris Barbot, MD, Former NYC Health Commissioner, Named President and CEO of United Hospital Fund
Release Date:
08/11/2022
... commissioner of the Baltimore City Health Department from 2010 until 2014, and was medical director of the New York ... Mental Hygiene’s Office of School Health from 2003 until 2010 . Dr. Barbot is a graduate...
Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces the 2022 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows
Release Date:
04/26/2022
... support. The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program , founded in 2015 , involves a competitive nomination and selection ... of Maryland, College Park Joshua P. Darr Louisiana State University Kyle Harper University of...
MetLife Foundation Supports Expansion of Green Schoolyard Initiative
Release Date:
10/20/2015
The MetLife Foundation joined other private funders and the Trust for Public Land in a green schoolyards initiative in Philadelphia.