The Rockefeller Foundation Expands Access to Electricity in India
Release Date:
11/15/2017
... expanding 24/7 electricity to all of the country’ s citizens... The Rockefeller Foundation Expands Access to ...
Site Search
- resource provided by the Forum Network Knowledgebase.
Search Tip: Search with " " to find exact matches.
Report Funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Finds That California Traffic Fines Prey on Poor
Release Date:
01/08/2018
... for a ticket. That can be followed by a suspended driver’ s license or jail time, even for non-safety related ... pay, rather than flat rates, increases collections. Let’ s also talk about fairness. It is well...
Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database
Release Date:
01/09/2018
... Walter Hawthorne, professor and chair of MSU' s Department of History. 'By linking data compiled by some of the world' s foremost historians, it will allow scholars and the public ... online...
New Research Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation Tackles College Hunger
Release Date:
01/22/2018
... Dan O’Connor, HHP chair, are working with the nation’ s leading experts on food insecurity in higher education to ... and her team at the Wisconsin HOPE Lab , the nation’ s only translational research...
JPMorgan Chase to Increase Its Philanthropic Investments to $1.75 Billion Over Five Years
Release Date:
01/31/2018
... has emerged as one of its leading players. The bank’ s philanthropy, which we explored in a recent deep dive , ... there with many large foundations. Now, JPMorgan Chase’ s corporate responsibility arm is...
New Commonwealth Fund Survey Sheds Light on Seniors' Opinions of Their Health Care System
Release Date:
02/08/2018
... of the health care they received. Despite this, Canada' s seniors report better perceived health than the ... How Canada Compares: Results From The Commonwealth Fund' s 2017 International Health...
JPMorgan Chase Strengthens Its Commitment To Support Urban Entrepreneurs of Color
Release Date:
02/27/2018
... to see additional commitments to philanthropy. And that' s exactly the plan. Not too long ago, JPMorgan gave us a ... Small business will also get a boost from JPMorgan Chase’ s largesse, especially in...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Makes Water Purification Breakthrough
Release Date:
04/03/2018
... of these fatalities occur in developing nations, the U. S . is no stranger to unanticipated water shortages, ... of Texas at Austin, a research team in UT Austin' s Cockrell School of Engineering has...
How to Improve Health Care for Veterans - Letter to the NYT Editor from New York State Health Foundation's David Sandman
Release Date:
04/04/2018
... to the NYT Editor from New York State Health Foundation' s David Sandman To the Editor: Re “ A Move That Will Hurt ... J. Shulkin, lays out a number of compelling reasons it’ s a bad idea to privatize...
Research Supported by The Helmsley Charitable Trust Grant Provides New Insight Into Neurological Disorders
Release Date:
04/17/2018
... Disorders Many neurological disorders—Alzheimer’ s , schizophrenia, autism, even depression—have lagged ... healthy populations of human cells into people’ s brains to replace damaged or dysfunctional tissue...
Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2018 U.S. Mayors Challenge Entry Helps Homeless Store Their Vital Documents Digitally
Release Date:
04/19/2018
Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2018 U. S . Mayors Challenge Entry Helps Homeless Store Their Vital ... users, officials added. The project is part of the city' s entry into Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2018...
OSF May Exit Hungary as Orban Purges Civil Groups
Release Date:
04/20/2018
... Civil Groups Billionaire philanthropist George Soros ’ s Open Society Foundations, a group that funds dozens of ... to punish NGOs he supports. Orban has condemned the EU’ s multicultural democratic model,...
Michael Bloomberg Donates $4.5M to U.N.Climate Body After U.S. Cuts
Release Date:
04/23/2018
... Bloomberg Donates $4.5M to U.N.Climate Body After U. S . Cuts Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ... change negotiations to make up the shortfall in the agency' s budget caused by U. ...
OSF Leaving Hungary Under Government Pressure
Release Date:
05/15/2018
... pressure and the threat of legal sanctions, George Soros’ s Open Society Foundations said on Tuesday that it had become ... prime minister has blamed Mr. Soros for the country’ s problems, and that the...
Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Named a National Treasure by National Trust
Release Date:
06/19/2018
Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’ s Childhood Home Named a National Treasure by National Trust ... purchased by four black artists to maintain Simone’ s legacy, this now-vacant yet nationally...
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats
Release Date:
06/25/2018
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind...
BNY Mellon Partners With Girls' Leadership Initiative on Stem Boot Camp
Release Date:
08/02/2018
A global leadership development initiative of the United Nations Foundations is partnering with BNY Mellon to bring STEM boot camps to five cities, including Pittsburgh.
With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery
Release Date:
08/15/2018
... for why the sticks refused to snap in two. Feynman’ s kitchen experiment remained unresolved until 2005, when ... won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize , seemed to solve Feynman’ s puzzle. But a question remained: Could...
Former VP for Grants at the New York Community Trust and Beloved PNY Member, Joyce Bove, Has Passed Away
Release Date:
08/16/2018
Joyce Marie Joyce Marie Bove, age 67, of New York City, formerly of Stoneham, MA passed away on August 15, 2018 at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
Newman's Own Foundation Launches New Website to Share the Common Good
Release Date:
09/12/2018
Newman' s Own Foundation Launches New Website to Share the Common Good Newman' s Own Foundation, founded by the late actor and ... days, we are inundated with world and local events, and it'...