Site Search

Funding Area

The New York Community Trust

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

Release Date:

12/13/2016

... being announced today in an attempt to have more students from modest backgrounds graduate from prestigious campuses seen as opening doors to top ... Initiative, aims to add 50,000 highly qualified students...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

MetLife Foundation Sponsors Ballet Hispánico Tour

Release Date:

02/21/2017

... Director & CEO Eduardo Vilaro as host, excerpts from Ballet Hispánico 's diverse repertory and a Q&A with ... 1pm, Show 2pm, Q&A 3pm. The program will feature excerpts from the crowd-pleasing...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Arts

Related Organizations

MetLife

Novo Foundation's Jesenia Santana Discusses the Dismissal of Domestic Violence and Its Effects in the Criminal Court System

Release Date:

03/09/2017

... whose entanglement in the court system stemmed directly from their abuse. This included survivors facing charges for ... As reported previously in Rewire, the trauma resulting from domestic violence can result...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Justice Reform

Related Organizations

NoVo Foundation

The Army Infantry’s First Women

Release Date:

05/26/2017

... and revolutionary. The first group of women graduated from United States Army infantry training last week, but ... to distinguish the mixed-gender squads in the steamy woods from those of earlier generations...

Find More By

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

Release Date:

06/07/2017

... housing initiatives. Community development funding from a bank isn’t the flashiest of grants. But this funding ... housing, or how prosperous a neighborhood will be a decade from now. To be sure, the big banks...

Find More By

News type

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

Related Organizations

Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

Release Date:

06/14/2017

... simple assumption. Organizations involve more people, and from a strategic standpoint, seem to offer more influence and ... to disseminate and publicize the results that derive from their project grants. But...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Science

Related Organizations

Rita Allen Foundation

F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money

Release Date:

06/30/2017

... But some would argue that their biggest impact comes not from the money they give away, but from the far larger pile of assets they hold. Most of the ... was given away in total in the U.S.—that’s everything...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

F.B. Heron Foundation

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

Release Date:

07/12/2017

... are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children's Hospital suggests. ... born with higher birthweight appeared to be at risk from a young age,” researcher...

Find More By

News type

Children, Youth and Families

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Doris Duke Foundation

CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... Northwell Health, has asked state permission to withdraw from the individual and small group market, the latest ... underwriting loss through the first six months of 2017, up from a $48 million underwriting...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Health

A Former Felon Leads The Way In Criminal Justice Reform

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... Reform In September 1999, Deanna Hoskins was released from a community-based correctional facility after serving ... of a one-year prison sentence. She was 30 and suffering from substance abuse problems. Today...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

Release Date:

09/07/2017

... Jersey Leaders President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, ... in the region and a top priority for many officials from the two states. It would...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Community Development

Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... worldwide. In 2015 alone, nearly 18 million people died from CVDs which accounts for 31 percent of all global deaths. ... numbers, NCDs don’t receive nearly as much attention from global health funders as high...

Find More By

News type

International/Foreign Affairs

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Bloomberg-supported Cities Work on Assembling the Open Government Puzzle

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... churning piles of information, there are pieces missing from the open government puzzle. Since the National Oceanic ... those data sets and knowledge should have been available from the start. Although the...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Is Online Fundraising a Bad Idea?

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... the world is at my fingertips. I can order takeout from a local restaurant, express-deliver flowers to a friend ... their own website. Other organizations are transitioning from direct mail to online-only...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

Release Date:

10/06/2017

... of all refugees that came to the United States were from Africa. Three countries—Democratic Republic of the ... of all refugees resettled in the United States came from countries in Africa (primarily ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Immigration

Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the University of Notre Dame. "Higher Highs and Lower ... Christensen of the University of Oregon and Scott Graffin from the University of...

Find More By

News type

Corporate Social Responsibility

Funding Area

New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

Release Date:

11/08/2017

... Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors Ten years from now, Americans born in 1960 will be able to start ... made by a University of Michigan (U-M) team using data from long-term health studies and...

Find More By

News type

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Funding Area

Aging

Related Organizations

New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

Release Date:

11/08/2017

Find More By

News type

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Funding Area

Aging

Related Organizations

ArtNet News Details Joan Mitchell Foundation 2017 Grant Recipients

Release Date:

11/15/2017

... ethnicities, and geographic backgrounds. They range in age from 27 to 62 and come from 12 different states, including Hawaii and Alaska. Of the ... 80 percent identify as non-white—a substantial increase...

Find More By

News type