Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines
Release Date:
08/10/2017
... big data and analytics to a different set of issues, which are not solely focused on revenue growth or bottom line ...
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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Report on Telehealth Private Payer Laws
Release Date:
08/23/2017
... Private Payer Laws Many state health policy leaders are interested in telehealth—the use of technology to ...
BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity
Release Date:
09/06/2017
After a fraught last few years in terms of national attention to issues of race, one would expect that nonprofit boards would demonstrate at least a modicum of advancement in the realm of diversity.
A Brooklyn Food Festival Dishes Out Extra Helpings of Culinary Theory
Release Date:
09/11/2017
During the course of the year, New Yorkers have no shortage of food events to attend. But Taste Talks, a culinary showcase that wrapped up its fifth annual edition this past weekend, aims to be something different, organizers say.
Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid
Release Date:
09/13/2017
The clock is ticking. Community Boards 4, 5 and 7 have until October 30 to vote on the de Blasio administration’s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the western Bronx. It’s the first stage of the seven-month Uniform Land Use Review Procedure...
Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation? ... exhibitions of work inspired by those experiences. . . Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation? ...
‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... vastly expand Medicare to cover all Americans, Republicans are fighting back with familiar critiques of such a ...
City Council Examines Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts
Release Date:
09/19/2017
The City Council’s Courts and Legal Services Committee held an oversight hearing on Monday dedicated to New York’s Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, a program designed to increase accountability and responsiveness to domestic violence victims in...
As Global Obesity Rises, Teasing Apart Its Causes Grows Harder
Release Date:
09/19/2017
NYTimes examines how the processed food, soda and fast food industries’ increasing focus on markets in the developing world — and the accompanying rise in obesity rates and weight-related illnesses — is playing out around the globe.
ASPCA Launches New Social Media Campaign
Release Date:
10/02/2017
ASPCA's new social media campaign "Find Your Fido", Aims to Get More Shelter Dogs Adopted
Rockefeller Foundation Research Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... nations says kids whose watersheds have greater tree cover are less likely to experience diarrheal disease, the second ... your watershed upstream, the less likely your kids are to get this potentially fatal...
William T. Grant Foundation President Discusses Inequality In English Language Education
Release Date:
10/26/2017
Adam Gamoran spoke about the indecision about best practices for providing adequate educational opportunities for English language learners.
The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste
Release Date:
11/14/2017
... on the results, WWF, AHLA, and The Rockefeller Foundation are releasing a toolkit with strategies to help hotel ...
ArtNet News Details Joan Mitchell Foundation 2017 Grant Recipients
Release Date:
11/15/2017
... & Sculptors Grants on Tuesday. Founded in 1993, the grants are awarded yearly to under-recognized artists who have made ... to the national cultural or artistic discourse. Grantees are awarded an...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts
Release Date:
12/15/2017
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, a $750,000 grant, to fund a five-year project to build empathy in order to affect positive social change.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria
Release Date:
02/16/2018
... nets and insecticide, is to modify the mosquitoes so they are no longer capable of spreading the parasite to humans. ...
Schott Foundation Releases New Report, “Keeping Students First: Building Community Labor Partnerships for Strong Schools.”
Release Date:
04/10/2018
... is designed to support community and labor groups that are ready and willing to engage in meaningful relationship ...
Peter G. Peterson Foundation Funds Report Rethinking How Medicare Pays for Services
Release Date:
07/13/2018
... services. Moreover, because Medicare’s relative values are also used by Medicaid and private insurers, the ...
Major Data Release From Sloan Digital Sky Survey Includes Galaxy Maps, New Data Access and Visualization Tools, and a Huge 'Stellar Library'
Release Date:
01/29/2019
The latest data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) includes observations revealing the internal structure and composition of nearly 5,000 nearby galaxies observed during the first three years of a program called Mapping Nearby Galaxies...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Adds Olga Viso, Stephen Pitti, Cathy Davidson as Fellows
Release Date:
04/03/2019
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York has added three new fellows in residence: Cathy Davidson, a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center; Stephen Pitti, professor at Yale University; and Olga Viso, the former Walker Art Center director and now...