Rauch Foundation Seeks Publisher for Long Island Index
Release Date:
04/19/2016
... over publication of the Long Island Index, which for 13 years has provided in-depth analysis on a wide range of ...
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Wallace, Mellon Foundations Embrace Identity and Race
Release Date:
04/21/2016
The Wallace Foundation aims to spend $52 million on a study identifying ways arts organizations can expand audience engagement while the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation helped implement a program in real-time. Both initiatives address identity and race...
Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Launches Research on Genes That Cause Autism
Release Date:
04/25/2016
A multi-year, national online research program on autism, believed to be the largest ever conducted in the United States, officially launched on April 21 with the goal of getting DNA from 50,000 individuals and their families, generating an enormous...
New York Community Trust Brings Reading Instruction Program to the Bronx
Release Date:
04/29/2016
... Diane Daprocida, who taught special education for 10 years before coming to P.S. 94... New York Community Trust ...
Applications Sought for Jerome Foundation Scholarship
Release Date:
05/05/2016
A committee of directors from the foundation will judge the scholarship applicants based upon academic merit, creative accomplishment, community service and leadership.
Rockefeller Foundation Launches YieldWise, a $130 Million Initiative to Halve Post-Harvest Loss
Release Date:
05/26/2016
The earth’s global food system is facing a quiet crisis—one-third of all food produced is never consumed while 1.2 billion people go to bed hungry or under-nourished, as global economic losses mount into the trillions.
Ford Foundation's Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board
Release Date:
06/02/2016
Elizabeth Alexander, an acclaimed poet, author and professor, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced today.
Capital One Is A Supporter Of Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program
Release Date:
06/30/2016
Girls Who Code kicked off its 2016 Summer Immersion Program in Chicago and Washington D.C. this week, logging a record number of programs this year.
Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to Launch Iterative Learning Fellowship
Release Date:
07/08/2016
The grant builds on the recent success of the Mellon Foundation-funded Arts@TheCore initiative from 2012.
Rubin Foundation Announces Participants in 2016 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Social Practice
Release Date:
07/14/2016
IAP: Social Practice is a year-long professional development program for immigrant and 1st-generation artists working in all forms of socially engaged art.
Century Foundation President Comments on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness
Release Date:
07/22/2016
... For the purposes of the federal student loan program, 10 years working for the government or most nonprofits ...
Simons Foundation Gives $1.5M to Explore New Approaches to Data Mining
Release Date:
08/01/2016
... or telling an original van Gogh from a fake. But in recent years , applied mathematician Ingrid Daubechies has been ...
New York Community Trust Announces Semifinalists for 2016 Nonprofit Excellence Awards
Release Date:
08/03/2016
Eleven nonprofit organizations in the city and Westchester have been chosen as semifinalists for $60,000 in prizes and prestigious scholarships.
Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign Makes Progress in El Paso
Release Date:
08/04/2016
... 45 percent of all the coal plants operating just six years ago. "We commend El Paso Electric on a decision that .....
Minority Business Accelerator Gets Another Big Boost from Surdna Foundation
Release Date:
08/19/2016
... This latest grant is for $300,000 over the next two years . With that award, the foundation has awarded a total of ...
MasterCard Makes Fortune List of Businesses Confronting World's Problems
Release Date:
08/23/2016
More businesses are taking on society’s biggest problems—and making money doing so. Here’s our look at 50 companies that do well by doing good.
Commonwealth Fund Executives Write About Stressed, But Fixable ACA Marketplaces
Release Date:
09/07/2016
Most ACA marketplace enrollees will not experience major premium hikes next year.
Doris Duke Supports Research on Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
Release Date:
09/07/2016
A precision-engineered gene therapy virus, inserted into blood stem cells that are then transplanted, markedly reduced sickle-induced red-cell damage in mice with sickle cell disease.
Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2016 Jane Jacobs Medal
Release Date:
10/04/2016
In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Jacobs' birth and the impact of her ideas on cities around the world, the award was open this year for the first time to international nominees.
NY Life Foundation Supports Social- Emotional Learning In Middle Schools
Release Date:
10/05/2016
ExpandED Schools, a New York City nonprofit dedicated to closing the learning gap, has received a $1 million, three-year grant from the New York Life Foundation.