Site Search

Funding Area

NYS Health Foundation Finds Uninsured Rate Fell by 36 Percent After ACA Implemented

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... Care Act (ACA). Prior to ACA implementation, nearly 1 in 10 non-elderly veterans were uninsured, lacking access to ... research also found that the ACA likely led to a decrease in demand for VA care. Without...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

New York Health Foundation

Related Organizations

NYC Schools Are Inadequate on Sex Education, Stringer Says

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... found that 88 percent of middle schools and high schools in the city do not have a licensed health education teacher – with most of them being middle schools. Also, in middle and high schools, 97 percent of...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

Release Date:

09/18/2017

... among city teenagers is slightly rising, especially in the city's poorest neighborhoods. Previously, the rates had been in decline for four years, according to the city's Health Department. For those...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... can draft, pass, and reconcile the actual legislation in less than two weeks, families nationwide may be at risk of ... for their children or facing soaring premiums. “Here in New York, we’re all waiting with...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

With Its 'No Dancing' Law Verging On Repeal, New York Legitimizes Its Nightlife

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... night, at the nightclub and circus-arts space House of Yes in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Mayor Bill de ... communities, and are modeled after similar initiatives in London, Amsterdam and other...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Community Development

Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... into a room where bail will be assigned to you — likely in a matter of seconds — by a bail magistrate or a judge ... someone who can’t post cash bail, you’ll await trial in a jail cell on State Road. Good luck...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Related Organizations

Open Society Foundations

Opinion: Construction Safety Bill Would Hurt Minority Workers

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... and brown construction workers, including those living in public housing. For months, I have been working with other ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Workforce Development

How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... their insurance through Medicaid can rest easy. While some states have applied to make minor changes to their programs, ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... that mix, for both the political and philanthropic class. In its purest form, the idea is to provide a long-term ... Variants of the idea have bubbled up for centuries, and in recent decades, several...

Find More By

News type

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

New York Landlord Fined $500,000 in Tenant Harassment Probe

Release Date:

09/28/2017

New York Landlord Fined $500,000 in Tenant Harassment Probe A New York City landlord will have ... the company didn’t harass any of its tenants. Tenants in several Icon buildings in the East...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

Opinion: Take a Resistance Break

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... inside Sacramento’s Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in solidarity with California’s immigrant population. After ... lobbyists and capitol insiders who don’t have to march in large numbers for their voices...

Find More By

News type

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

Release Date:

10/06/2017

... Immigrant Communities and Police Immigrant communities in general have a fear of police interactions, but this fear has been heightened in the current climate of crackdowns on immigration and ... of victim...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Immigration

P2CP Program Is Expanding with Support from The David Rockefeller Fund, Ford Foundation, JM Kaplan Fund, Teagle Foundation and Pinkerton Foundation

Release Date:

10/20/2017

... At the Otisville Correctional Facility, students enrolled in the Prison-To-College-Pipeline (P2CP) anxiously waited to ... P2CP student who was scheduled to speak on a panel later in the afternoon. “We’ve...

Find More By

News type

The David Rockefeller Fund

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Related Organizations

The J.M. Kaplan Fund

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Discovers Smart Artificial Beta Cells Could Lead To New Diabetes Treatment

Release Date:

10/30/2017

... and disposable skin patch. As the researchers report in Nature Chemical Biology, a single injection of the ABCs ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Related Organizations

ArtNet News Details Joan Mitchell Foundation 2017 Grant Recipients

Release Date:

11/15/2017

... annual Painters & Sculptors Grants on Tuesday. Founded in 1993, the grants are awarded yearly to under-recognized ... and made eligible to apply for the Joan Mitchell residency in New Orleans. This year’s...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Arts

Related Organizations

Joan Mitchell Foundation

How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

Release Date:

12/12/2017

... Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing Last week, the fund launched ... a new $5 million effort that seeks 'to catalyze investment in local organizing strategies...

Find More By

News type

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Civic Engagement

Related Organizations

Propel Capital

Simons Investigators Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize, New Horizons Prize

Release Date:

12/15/2017

... Breakthrough Prizes, which recognize top achievements in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. ... San Diego, received the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in mathematics. The award notes their “...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Simons Foundation

John B. King Jr., President and CEO of The Education Trust Speaks at the First Annual PNY Policy Forum

Release Date:

01/31/2018

... Commissioner touches on ESSA implementation, equity in education and policy opportunities in today’s political environment. Secretary King's Phil ... former Philanthropy New York Board Member, who passed...

Find More By

News type

Video

PhilTalks

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

Schott Foundation Report Offers Framework Providing All Children Equal Opportunity To Succeed

Release Date:

03/01/2018

... to reverse historical local policies and practices rooted in racism and bias and replace them with policies that create ... economic and racial inequality and opportunity gaps in areas like housing, health...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area