With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... Sivaladapidae primate family, consumed leaves and was about the size of a house cat, said Patel, co-author of the ...
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Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101
Release Date:
03/20/2017
David Rockefeller, the banker and philanthropist with the fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded vast influence around the world even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on...
Violence Against Women Is Not Only a Local Issue
Release Date:
03/22/2017
... perfect place for me to spend my winter semester, to learn about the challenges women are experiencing both mentally and ... and it was a course requirement to visit an NGO to learn about their work. The...
Giving Like a Rockefeller, Even if You’re Not Super-Rich
Release Date:
03/31/2017
Few families, of course, are as wealthy as the Rockefellers. But their example offers lessons for families without famous last names, philanthropic resources and numerous plaques in their honor.
Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and Others Launch $14M Fund To Support News Integrity
Release Date:
04/03/2017
... focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online. The Initiative’s ...
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation-A Leader in the Growth of Community Development Financial Institutions
Release Date:
04/04/2017
... and utilities. LISC says that through the funding, about 22,000 people will receive services. While ...
MetLife Foundation Announces Sponsorship of “Multipliers of Prosperity” for a Third Year
Release Date:
04/05/2017
... hub led by WSJ. Custom Studios that helps raise awareness about the challenges and opportunities in the realm of ...
Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year
Release Date:
04/25/2017
... that adversely affect black residents are eliminated. About 200 people gathered at the Long Island Marriott in ...
Helmsley Charitable Trust and Tiffany & Co. Foundation Support Effort to Untangle a Growing Web of Ocean Conservation Funding
Release Date:
04/26/2017
... it’s local. It’s market-based and regulatory. It’s about blue whales and microbes. It’s as expansive and ...
Commonwealth Fund’s Biennial Health Insurance Survey Finds People with Medicaid Have Better Access to Health Care Than the Uninsured and Fewer Medical Bill Problems
Release Date:
04/27/2017
... health insurer, covering more than 70 million people, about 12 million of whom enrolled when 31 states and the ...
Atlantic Philanthropies' Report Examines the Effectiveness of the Limited-life Approach
Release Date:
05/01/2017
... among philanthropic leaders, advisors, and scholars about the social value a philanthropic initiative can be ...
With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans
Release Date:
05/05/2017
... point in their lives are more likely to express anxiety about several aspects of retirement, to have experienced ...
Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access
Release Date:
05/08/2017
... below 133 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), about $16,000 for an individual or $33,500 for a family of ...
With Support from Carnegie, New Science Standards Deliver Students from Textbooks to ‘Real-World' Applications
Release Date:
05/19/2017
... sending districts, steering students away from learning about facts from a textbook and into learning real-world ...
Bloomberg Writes on His Philanthropy's Public Health Projects
Release Date:
06/01/2017
... in low- and middle-income countries in 2015, but only about 1 percent of the foreign aid and donations dedicated to ...
Legacy Foundations and Risk-Taking: Different Approaches to Empowered Philanthropy
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... Yes, fear. For years, we’ve endured debates about thinking like a business and not thinking like a business. About general operating support and program support. About whether having a goal...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing
Release Date:
06/07/2017
... that disgraceful history, it's hard not to be ambivalent about their current efforts to help these same communities. .....
Commonwealth Fund and GWU Release New Findings on House GOP Healthcare Bill Resulting in Loss of 1M Jobs in 10 Years
Release Date:
06/19/2017
... lower, and business output would be $148 billion less. About three-quarters of jobs lost (725,000) would be in the ...
NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders
Release Date:
06/22/2017
... Their Clout: Empower Community Funders Some who worry about the rising influence of billionaire philanthropists, ...
F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money
Release Date:
06/30/2017
... Do With Their Money Foundations make up a big part— about a sixth—of all the charitable giving that happens in ...