Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... Their study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, compared data from a national survey taken in 2001 and 2002 and again in ...
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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... and trying to strengthen existing ones. A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) acknowledges that ...
U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Union Dues Case
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... decide whether public sector labor groups can collect fees from workers they represent but who are not members. The ...
Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... Stephens County, a mostly rural area where Allen is from , had the third-highest rate of women in prison. Allen is ...
Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... accounting for over one-third of the poverty reduction from all public benefits for people in households without a ...
George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations
Release Date:
10/18/2017
... and efforts to protect people in the United States from what it described as “a national wave of hate ...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change
Release Date:
10/20/2017
... in conservation, climate modeling, and economists from a variety of global institutions to explore this issue. ...
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Hats on, Hats Off – A Creative Approach to Capacity Building
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
... for approaching capacity building – that build from funder and grantee strengths Designed for All interested ...
New Study Funded By The Peterson Center On Healthcare Reveals Healthcare Spending Rose By Nearly $1 Trillion Between 1996 and 2013
Release Date:
11/13/2017
... (variety and complexity) of services. Important takeaways from the study include: Healthcare spending increased 80 ...
The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Leading Philanthropists to Announce Co-Impact, A Global Collaborative for Systems Change
Release Date:
11/16/2017
... support for promising approaches, and a commitment from key actors to change underlying systems. Systems change ...
Dana K. Bezerra Named President of Heron Foundation
Release Date:
11/20/2017
... of Science in Agricultural Business and Public Policy from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Arthur “Buzz” Schmidt, ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky
Release Date:
11/20/2017
... with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant will kickstart ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities Helping Cities Grow More Powerful
Release Date:
11/22/2017
... of public health initiatives such as banning trans fats from restaurants, requiring restaurant chains to post calorie ...
Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers
Release Date:
11/29/2017
... series of algorithms that can distinguish strong sentences from weak ones.That is where machine learning comes in. The ...
The Andy Warhol Foundation Partners With Calvin Klein
Release Date:
11/29/2017
... Klein supporting the foundation’s endowment financially from which it distributes grants for contemporary visual art ...
New App Plentiful, Funded By The Helmsley Charitable Trust, Streamlines How NYC Food Pantries Feed The Hungry
Release Date:
12/04/2017
... Lucy Roque, 46, a mother of five kids, she as she emerged from the National Council of Jewish Women New York Section ...
Wallace Foundation Commissioned Report Shows How ESSA Supports Social-Emotional Learning
Release Date:
12/05/2017
... programs that fit ESSA requirements. The report comes from the RAND Corp.’s evidence review of how ESSA supports ...
New Research Supported By Simons Foundation Points to Cellular Roots of Autism
Release Date:
12/05/2017
... genetic model of autism, using neurons created in the lab from patients’ own skin cells. Their experiments suggest ...
Open Society Foundations Seek Clarification on Pakistan NGO Ruling
Release Date:
12/14/2017
... national foundation in Pakistan is seeking clarification from the government, after the Ministry of the Interior ...
Commonwealth Fund Supported Report Shows Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States
Release Date:
12/14/2017
... Mexico’s rate dropped the most between 2013 and 2016, from 28 percent to 13 percent. A dozen other states, ...