Historian O’Connor Comments on New Ford Foundation Strategy
Release Date:
08/04/2015
... the Ford Foundation’s top priority going forward will be reducing social and economic inequality, which he sees as ...
Site Search
- resource provided by the Forum Network Knowledgebase.
Search Tip: Search with " " to find exact matches.
New York Community Trusts and Partners Fund Grants Bringing Digital Media Learning to More Youth
Release Date:
11/04/2015
New grants will help NYC young people to use digital media and technology to compose and record original music, research civic and political issues, and reduce pollution in their communities.
Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality
Release Date:
11/09/2015
... announced that it would direct all of its work toward reducing inequality. "We have had an ongoing dialogue with .....
Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)
Release Date:
01/06/2016
New York should draw on approaches that help address homelessness--supportive housing, which offers job training, debt counseling, mental health care, and other crucial services to residents--to stop the revolving door of homelessness.
Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos
Release Date:
01/21/2016
The Rockefeller Foundation plans to announce at Davos that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to reduce food waste around the world. The wide-ranging plan will stretch from thrown-out crops to excess food at the dinner table.
Century Foundation: A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN
Release Date:
02/11/2016
... is ambitious, seeking to coordinate global action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation) and ...
United Hospital Fund Report Looks at Expiring Program, Consequences
Release Date:
03/03/2016
... improved the affordability of coverage for consumers by reducing premiums in the individual market. The report ... partnerships between health plans and providers aimed at reducing costs and improving quality...
Arabella Advisors Noted in NPR Report: Solutions that Could Help The U.S. Slash Food Waste
Release Date:
03/16/2016
... gas. The Obama administration has set a goal of reducing food waste by 50 percent by 2030. And, as we've .....
NYS Health Foundation Supporting Model Justice Reform Program
Release Date:
04/04/2016
Albany launched its innovative Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, a harm-reduction oriented program to reduce low-level arrests and recidivism.
Funders Need Good Data to Evaluate Programs That Decriminalize Drug Addiction
Release Date:
09/20/2016
... and pretrial justice in New York City, with a focus on reducing the number of people held in pretrial detention at ...
Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit
Release Date:
01/06/2017
... Philanthropies, for a two-year commitment to reducing global tobacco use. Now ten years and a total of ...
MAC AIDS Fund Supports Efforts to Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African-American Women
Release Date:
01/27/2017
African-American women are more likely to be infected with HIV than other women, and many don’t know it. So public health officials and advocates are trying to get the word out about PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis.
Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference
Release Date:
01/18/2017
... conference focused on developing new approaches to reducing poverty. Unlike other conferences, there will be no ...
Rockefeller Foundation Initiative to Help Halve Food Loss by 2030
Release Date:
02/07/2017
Local and global stakeholders in the Nigerian tomato value chain met late last year for the first YieldWise partner planning session.
With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It
Release Date:
03/09/2017
For decades, New Orleans fought to keep water out of the city. In the city's new resilience district, with projects that will break ground later in 2017, the goal is to let water in—which paradoxically can reduce flooding.
William T. Grant Publishes How Social Science Research Can Improve Youth Outcomes In The Real World
Release Date:
05/17/2017
Researchers who want their work to matter in policy and practice should begin by identifying the questions of greatest relevance and then bring the highest standards of theoretical and methodological rigor to those questions, William T. Grant...
A Peek into Bloomberg Philanthropies’ New Public Health Initiative
Release Date:
06/23/2017
... range from anything from creating a smoke-free city, to reducing the consumption of sugary beverages, to ...
Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution
Release Date:
07/20/2017
Senior representatives from 19 international agencies gathered this spring in Italy, hosted by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. They came together to brainstorm how to halve death and...
The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion
Release Date:
07/28/2017
The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation funds $150,000 pilot to pair Baltimore police officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the throes of a mental health crisis in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from...
Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed
Release Date:
08/08/2017
... itself as a "progressive, nonpartisan think tank" aimed at reducing inequality. The report, “ The Private Side of .....