Kress and Mellon Support First Academic Art Museum and Library Summit
Release Date:
12/09/2015
... Gables, Florida, will bring together leaders from Arizona State University, Duke University, Oberlin College, Princeton ...
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Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case
Release Date:
12/11/2015
... of top-ranking students from all high schools across the state with the use of race as one factor in a “holistic” ...
Aetna Foundation: Closing the Health Divide, One Community at a Time
Release Date:
12/16/2015
Among the greatest challenges we're faced with today, is the growing health divide in underserved communities, writes Garth Graham, M.D., president of Aetna Foundation.
Rippel Foundation: What We Discovered at “The Frontiers” about Financing and Leading Improvements in Health
Release Date:
12/18/2015
Laura Landy, founder & chair of ReThink Health and president & CEO of the Rippel Foundation, writes about understanding the frontiers of health policy and practice, while boldly pursuing a vision: a United States in which all the sectors...
Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)
Release Date:
01/06/2016
The new barriers to economic stability and upward mobility are not trivial. Recent data show that wages are stagnant for a wide swath of earners, annual income volatility has risen markedly since the 1970s, economic mobility varies widely, wealth...
Gould Foundation’s Tyre is Author of In-Depth Atlantic Investigative Piece on Math and Low-Income Students
Release Date:
02/12/2016
Peg Tyre, director of strategy at the Edwin Gould Foundation, wrote a deep examination on mathematics whizzes and reaching glory in math competitions. She is also the author of the book, "The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the...
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Teagle Foundation Gives $2M for College/Community Partnerships
Release Date:
03/14/2016
The Teagle Foundation awarded more than $2 million in grants across 11 projects under its “College-Community Connections” program.
Five Questions for Pamela Shifman, Executive Director, NoVo Foundation
Release Date:
04/01/2016
Philanthropy News Digest interviews Pamela Shifman of the NoVo Foundation, a private foundation created in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett that has long worked in the U.S. and Global South. Last week, it announced a $90 million commitment to...
New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana
Release Date:
08/25/2016
New York Life announced today that it will donate $100,000 to aid flood relief efforts in Louisiana with a $50,000 donation to the American Red Cross, a $25,000 donation to Baton Rouge Area Foundation Flood Relief Fund and $25,000 to the Greater...
NYSHealth Launches 2017 Special Projects Fund Request for Proposals
Release Date:
09/02/2016
... Special Projects Fund Request for Proposals The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) 2017 Special Projects ...
Brad Tito Joins Westchester Community Foundation Board Of Advisors
Release Date:
11/08/2016
... Communities and Local Government Division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which works ...
The Century Foundation Rallies Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition
Release Date:
11/18/2016
With the election of Donald Trump, this warning is frighteningly close to becoming reality, as Trump has vowed to implement surveillance policies that “were frankly unthinkable a year ago.” Obama’s last challenge will be to do everything in his...
HSC Calls for Comments on Fair Labor Standards Act Effects on Nonprofits
Release Date:
11/28/2016
... employee status, which will take effect on December 1, the State is accepting comments on its own proposed rule, which ...
Public-Private Partnership With Ford, Surdna, Niarchos, Bloomberg, Mellon, and Rockefeller Award Placemaking Grants Totaling $11 Million
Release Date:
12/09/2016
ArtPlace America, a public-private partnership that works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development, has announced grants totaling $11 million to twenty-nine creative placemaking projects in...
The John A. Hartford Foundation Announces Hiring of George Suttles as Program Officer
Release Date:
01/06/2017
... and was formerly a program officer at the New York State Health Foundation. "We are excited to welcome George .....
Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President
Release Date:
03/08/2017
Erica Dunbar, who grew up in Philadelphia, is one of the more than 700 Mellon Mays PhDs who are not only helping to diversify university faculty in the United States, but who are also contributing groundbreaking scholarship and rising to the highest...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data
Release Date:
04/26/2017
... property information--tax records, landmark status, out-of- state ownership--to compile a "blight index," a master .....
As Schools Adopt Social-Emotional Programs, A New Guide Funded by the Wallace Foundation Offers Help
Release Date:
05/17/2017
... and life. Like Palo Alto Unified, districts across the state are increasingly interested in helping students cope, ...
The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced
Release Date:
06/05/2017
Early-career biomedical scientists who explore mechanisms of memory, injury and immunity in the nervous system and beyond, are recognized as young leaders in science.