Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... reform funders have spent many millions of dollars supporting new teacher preparation programs and trying to ...
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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System
Release Date:
10/02/2017
The food movement has a problem: It’s right about what’s wrong with our system, but wrong about how to fix it.
Ford Foundation Awards 25 Fellowships to US Artists Driving Social Change
Release Date:
10/02/2017
The Ford Foundation today announced 25 new Art of Change fellowships that will support visionary artists and cultural leaders in creating powerful works of art that help advance freedom, justice, and inclusion, and strengthen our democracy.
Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Cofounder and former Executive Director of Young Invincibles Jen Mishory and Skadden Fellow and attorney Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation, a leading progressive public policy think tank with offices in New York and Washington, D.C.
Simons Foundation Releases The Eternal Sky, Part 2: The Hunt for Inflation
Release Date:
10/05/2017
A new short film, the second installment in a series produced by the Simons Foundation, chronicles the work of scientists developing the Simons Observatory. The film traverses the globe, from the barren Atacama Desert in Chile to the sunny beaches...
Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines
Release Date:
10/19/2017
On Thursday, the city’s three library systems — the New York Public Library, which serves Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island; the Queens Library; and the Brooklyn Public Library — will forgive all fines for children 17 and under and unblock...
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Hats on, Hats Off – A Creative Approach to Capacity Building
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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Cities of Service Announces Engaged Cities Award
Release Date:
11/06/2017
With the Engaged Cities Award, Cities of Service, a Bloomberg Philanthropies Grantee, looks to recognize the impact of creative citizens and mayors—and to inspire more engagement.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky
Release Date:
11/20/2017
The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Mario Luis Small Joins Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees
Release Date:
11/27/2017
The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of sociologist Mario Luis Small to its board of trustees. Small is currently Grafstein Family Professor at Harvard University. He is a contributor to the RSF volume The Colors of...
Commonwealth Fund Report Shows That Medicaid, Medicare Accounted for 59% of Health Care Revenue for Largest Insurers
Release Date:
12/07/2017
In 2016, Medicare and Medicaid accounted for nearly 60 percent of health care revenues reported by the five largest U.S. commercial health insurance companies (UnitedHealthCare, Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Humana), according to a new Health Affairs study...
The New York Community Trust Awards $600K Grant for NYC Creative Aging Initiative
Release Date:
01/05/2018
Lifetime Arts to lead major effort to advance Creative Aging movement in NYC.
Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database
Release Date:
01/09/2018
Michigan State University, supported by nearly $1.5 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will create a unique online data hub that will change the way scholars and the public understand African slavery.
New Tax Law Might Force Newman's Own to Put Itself up for Sale
Release Date:
01/10/2018
Newman's Own, the popular purveyor of philanthropic pasta sauce, will be forced to put itself up for sale or pay crushing fines this year due to an obscure provision in the tax code.
Rauch Foundation Releases Report, Minding the Gaps, On Early Childhood Development
Release Date:
02/01/2018
The report finds that when it comes to child development, the newest science is clear: in the early childhood period, even a few months’ head start can make a huge difference.
New York Times Op-Ed "Good Leaders Make Good Schools" Cites Important Wallace-Commissioned Research Report
Release Date:
03/13/2018
The piece examines why principals matter and cites, among other sources, work over the years by The Wallace Foundation.
How to Improve Health Care for Veterans - Letter to the NYT Editor from New York State Health Foundation's David Sandman
Release Date:
04/04/2018
... get it. The next V.A. secretary can best serve veterans by supporting a strong, accessible and high-quality V.A. that ...
Hilton Foundation's Quest to Bring Safe Water to All
Release Date:
04/05/2018
In Ghana and elsewhere, Hilton is working on district-based programs to bring multiple disciplines together. The goal is simple: to “get the job done" and promote water-service delivery that can withstand time and regional political infighting and...
A Look At The Building Bridges Program, Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Release Date:
04/10/2018
Building Bridges is one of the arms of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, which in turn is part of the larger, New York-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation that also funds global wellness for children as well as environmental and medical...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology
Release Date:
04/27/2018
Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.