Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)
Release Date:
01/11/2016
... Ted Kennedy succumbed to this disease in just over a year . But scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered ...
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Atlantic Announces $40M for Fellowship to Reduce International Health Disparities
Release Date:
02/01/2016
... International Health Disparities This is an historic year for The Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2016, we have reached our 35th year of grantmaking, and also our last. In recent updates, ...
DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust
Release Date:
02/04/2016
... Supported by New York Community Trust Eighty-five- year -old Luis Cajigas doesn't need much to keep him happy. ... a painful hernia and heart problems, is the subject of a year -long project called...
Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art
Release Date:
03/07/2016
... a part of this system. But after experiments over the last year , it has decided to adopt a new policy of making images ...
Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation
Release Date:
03/16/2016
Strong principals are critical components of successful schools, and Wallace Foundation will be investing millions of dollars in research into what makes a principal effective.
Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors
Release Date:
05/11/2016
... Limits' extensive coverage of housing issues in 2015, a year that saw crucial decisions by NYCHA, developments in ... real-estate tax breaks. Our housing coverage over the past year has been supported by...
New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists
Release Date:
07/15/2016
A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark energy currently...
Robin Hood Issues Call for Applications for New Grant-Ready Insights and Training Project (GRIT)
Release Date:
08/10/2016
GRIT applications, which can be found at www.robinhood.org/grit , are due on August 11.
Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health
Release Date:
08/23/2016
... the foundation he founded, Bloomberg Philanthropies. Last year the foundation launched a four- year , $100 million Data for Health initiative that seeks to ...
Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary
Release Date:
11/01/2016
... grim numbers that show how much food is thrown away every year . Statistics indicate that approximately 1.3 billion ... of the food they buy, at a cost of $1,365 to $2,275 a year , according to research from the...
Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families
Release Date:
11/16/2016
... mission, partnerships, and accomplishments of the past year . "The Weinberg Foundation will award up to $2 million per year in grants for veterans," said Donn Weinberg, Weinberg .....
Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change
Release Date:
12/08/2016
... energy worldwide surpassed that of fossil fuels last year . That economic transformation leaves John Morton feeling ... OPIC made $3.7 billion worth of investments in fiscal year 2016, including $1.4 billion...
Stonewall Community Foundation Is Key Funder of Trans and Queer Storytelling
Release Date:
12/09/2016
... we forget: According to GLAAD, 2016 has been the deadliest year on record for trans people, especially for trans women ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities
Release Date:
12/13/2016
... backgrounds to campuses with high graduation rates by the year 2025. A group of 30 colleges and universities have ...
Seven Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' Innovation Teams Program
Release Date:
01/17/2017
... Canada — will receive grants of up to $500,000 a year for up to three years in support of a range of efforts, ...
Rockefeller Foundation Initiative to Help Halve Food Loss by 2030
Release Date:
02/07/2017
... in the Nigerian tomato value chain met late last year for the first YieldWise partner planning session. They ... of the product is lost between harvest and market each year . The post-harvest loss harms both...
With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species
Release Date:
02/28/2017
Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate group distantly connected to monkeys, apes and humans, a USC researcher said
'Marjorie Prime' Wins Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at Sundance for Focus on Science and Technology
Release Date:
03/29/2017
... is a sci-fi drama that stars Smith as Marjorie, an 86- year -old widow who spends time with a holographic likeness of ... the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at this year ’s Sundance Film Festival...
'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia
Release Date:
04/12/2017
... non-Muslims through the arts. More precisely, the four- year -old program is a project of the Doris Duke Foundation ... Art (DDFIA) , a subsidiary of the bigger foundation. Every year , the Building Bridges...
Supported by JPB Foundation, Harvard Study Finds Illinois Soda Tax Could Cut Health Costs, Raise $561 Million in Revenue Annually
Release Date:
04/26/2017
... on sugar-sweetened beverages could raise $561 million a year in new revenue for Illinois, while also saving millions ... Illinois was included in a Senate budget plan earlier this year but was stripped out...