Ms. Foundation for Women Founder Gloria Steinem Wraps Up Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Release Date:
11/03/2016
... in the founding of the Women's Action Alliance, the National Women's Political Caucus, the Women's Media Center, .....
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Gap Foundation Supports Advancements in New Ecosystems for Learning
Release Date:
11/14/2016
... & Girls Clubs, Electronic Arts, the Fossil Foundation, the National Writing Project, the Best Buy Foundation, musical ...
Commonwealth Fund Releases Study on Making Health Data Useful to Patients Through Open APIs
Release Date:
12/07/2016
... home. Making digital health data useful to patients is a national priority—and application program interface ...
Inside Pinkerton, a Low Profile Anti-Poverty Foundation
Release Date:
12/21/2016
What's in a name? Well, the Pinkerton Foundation in New York City draws its name from what was once the nation's oldest and largest security company.
Shatterproof Awarded $600,000 Grant by Helmsley Charitable Trust
Release Date:
01/31/2017
... by Helmsley Charitable Trust Shatterproof, the leading national nonprofit working to reduce the devastation of ...
A Closer Look at NY Fund for Women and Girls, Co-Founded by NoVo and New York Women’s Foundation
Release Date:
02/09/2017
The NYC Fund for Girls and Women of Color brings together 16 funders. This collaboration isn’t brand new, but it’s the first fund of its kind in the nation and is worth watching closely, especially for how it makes grants.
Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation
Release Date:
02/22/2017
A recent $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship that helps the nation better understand and address its legacies of slavery, racism and discrimination.
Foundation for Child Development Sponsors Study that Finds Children Learning English Require Better Support for Academic Success
Release Date:
03/01/2017
... appropriate grade level, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. ...
Carnegie Supports Report on Incentives to Attend Private Colleges
Release Date:
04/14/2017
... of New York, the Lumina Foundation for Education, and the National Endowment for the Humanities... Carnegie Supports ...
PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem
Release Date:
04/18/2017
One of the PIMCO Foundation’s philanthropic focus areas is gender equality, which coincides with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”
Supported by Sloan Foundation, Study Finds New Quantum Liquid Crystals May Play Role in Future of Computers
Release Date:
04/21/2017
... Program, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore ...
Gay Rights Group Turns Down Bank of America’s Money Over HB2 Compromise
Release Date:
05/09/2017
The nation’s largest gay rights group plans to reject $325,000 in Bank of America sponsorships to protest the role bank executives played in brokering a replacement for North Carolina’s House Bill 2 - known as "the bathroom bill."
Bloomberg, NYS Fund a 9/11 Rescue, Recovery Workers Memorial
Release Date:
05/31/2017
... of honor. The announcement was made Tuesday at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum by New York Gov. ...
IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy
Release Date:
06/08/2017
IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy IBM is channeling its science and tech expertise into tackling some of the world's biggest problems. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced the launch of...
Adam Falk Named Next President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Release Date:
06/29/2017
... including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. Falk’s many accomplishments at ...
Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time
Release Date:
07/13/2017
A new report from the Urban Institute tells much of the reason why the nation’s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in recent years: Prisoners sentenced to long terms under laws passed in previous decades still are locked up, and...
Helmsley Funds Research Collaborative around Type 1 Diabetes
Release Date:
08/18/2017
... HIRN is a research collaborative launched in 2014 by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney ...
How to Build a Strong Local Food System
Release Date:
08/29/2017
It goes beyond farmers' markets and CSA shares. Before we had ‘local food,’ we just had food. Communities fed themselves with whatever was produced in the region, with farmers selling directly to stores and customers. It was unheard of to truck...
More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer
Release Date:
08/30/2017
More than 1,000 people have died in floods across South Asia this summer, and as sheets of incessant rain pummeled the vast region on Tuesday, worries grew that the death toll would rise along with the floodwaters.
Transgender Students Find Open Door at More Women's Colleges
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Ninotska Love will become one of the first transgender women to attend Wellesley in the school's 147-year history.