Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers
Release Date:
02/16/2016
... the inmates, Cuomo told reporters after a church service in Harlem. “We had a federal investigation for civil rights ...
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When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)
Release Date:
02/29/2016
... the latest social-media fitness app. It's a grant proposed in President Obama's new budget, reviving an idea that hasn't gotten much policy attention in decades: diversity in...
Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%
Release Date:
03/04/2016
... 10 years than they would have prior to their involvement in the group. UIA recently received $3.85 million in new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford ... and USA Funds to support its...
Hartford Foundation Study Gets Attention on ‘National Healthcare Decisions Day’
Release Date:
04/18/2016
... of discussion arrives on the heels of a new national study in which only 29 percent of physicians surveyed reported ...
NYS Health Foundation President Calls For Proper Veteran Care
Release Date:
05/09/2016
... care facilities, and for calculating those wait times in a way that masks the true extent of the problem. Veterans ... months to get routine care, according to another damning report by the Government...
Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer
Release Date:
09/28/2016
... RNA is actually functional? And does it play a role in disease? A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor ... RNAs to find those that were expressed at high levels in two types of aggressive breast cancer. As...
Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia
Release Date:
12/09/2016
... than two-thirds of the CEOs of large, staffed foundations in the United States believe foundations have the potential to make a significant difference in society. That’s the good (and perhaps hardly surprising...
NY Women’s Foundation’s Oliveira Offers Blueprint for Investing in Vulnerable Young Girls
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... Foundation’s Oliveira Offers Blueprint for Investing in Vulnerable Young Girls A study released last month in the journal Science found that by age six, girls are ... this applied to girls regardless of race...
Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources
Release Date:
03/10/2017
... new legislation regulating nongovernmental organizations in the next two weeks, the Associated Press reports. The ...
Rockefeller Foundation Joins Effort to Curb Hotel Food Waste
Release Date:
03/24/2017
... as well as bottom lines — companies that invest in reducing food waste can expect a 14:1 ROI — are ... The Rockefeller Foundation hopes to make food waste in the hotel industry a thing of the past. Food...
Century Foundation Analysis Finds Millions Could Lose Health Benefits If Congress Repeals and States Replace the ACA
Release Date:
04/10/2017
... Benefits If Congress Repeals and States Replace the ACA In the wake of House Republicans’ failed attempt to ... to remove consumer protections that had been established in Title I of the ACA. Given this new...
Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs
Release Date:
05/01/2017
... Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs A new study, billed as the first of ... or former tech employees that have voluntarily left a job in the past three...
With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans
Release Date:
05/05/2017
... Work And Retirement Plans Americans age 50 and older who report that they have been incarcerated at some point in their lives are more likely to express anxiety about ... aspects of retirement, to have...
Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color
Release Date:
06/21/2017
Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color By now it’s clear ... that would only further marginalize women at greatest risk in the current political environment and who have long been ... I...
Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students
Release Date:
06/27/2017
... morning to discuss issues related to higher education in New York, especially how to ensure that more New Yorkers ... Space and titled “Moving the Needle on College Success in NYC,” was hosted by the Center...
Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News
Release Date:
06/28/2017
Rita Allen SupportedPrize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News ... Combating fake news and bolstering the public’s trust in journalism is the aim of a Vanderbilt research project ... the...
NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast
Release Date:
06/30/2017
NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast Rikers Island is known as a harsh place, but it can be particularly bad for women. In March, the New York Women’s...
F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money
Release Date:
06/30/2017
... a sixth—of all the charitable giving that happens in the U.S. But some would argue that their biggest impact ... a collection of assets that attracts much less attention. In 2012, a little over $300 billion...
Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities
Release Date:
07/11/2017
... on Monday. Since taking control of Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, Buffett has given away more than 40% of his stake in the company, according to Reuters. But even with the new donation, he still owns about 17%...
The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion
Release Date:
07/28/2017
... officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the throes of a mental health crisis in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from ... years undergone some crisis intervention training...