Peterson Foundation Calls Tax Extenders Legislation Fiscally Irresponsible
Release Date:
12/17/2015
... said, "This costly and unfunded bill is a big step in the wrong direction for our nation’s fiscal and economic .....
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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
... have corrected a blindness-causing gene mutation in stem cells derived from an affected patient. The result ... tissue. With the aim of repairing deteriorating retinas in patients with the inherited blinding...
Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients
Release Date:
02/24/2016
... and other clinicians can prompt patients to be more active in their own health and healthcare, and greater patient ... nor a new technology, experts say this basic change in practice represents a major step...
Henry Luce Foundation Is Committed to the Art of Displaying Art (And Why That's Important)
Release Date:
01/24/2017
... analogy was rather forced—that presentation is critical in the curatorial space. There is an art to displaying art. ...
Jonas Center Supports Global Health Nursing in the Dominican Republic
Release Date:
02/03/2017
Jonas Center Supports Global Health Nursing in the Dominican Republic The Jonas Center supports the ... Medical Partnership and the University of Missouri in their efforts to expand a successful grassroots ... and...
PhilTV This Week: March 3, 2017
Release Date:
03/03/2017
... Foundation’s Oliveira Offers Blueprint for Investing in Vulnerable Young Girls Charitable Giving Report : Giving Stagnant, Slowly Moving To Mobile Do You See Yourself In the First Nations...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data
Release Date:
04/26/2017
... Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data In Mobile, Ala., building-code inspectors armed with ... able to inventory the city's 1,200 blighted properties in just eight days--a task that...
AARP, Commonwealth Fund Release State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Seniors
Release Date:
06/15/2017
... for Seniors With baby boomers beginning to turn 80 in 2026, states must accelerate the pace of improving ... to AARP’s new state scorecard released today. The report , Picking Up the Pace of Change: A State...
Niarchos Foundation, Revson Foundation, & Heckscher Foundation Are Crowdsourcing Ideas to Help NYC Public Libraries
Release Date:
07/05/2017
... isn’t exactly a hot area of giving. As we’ve noted in the past, most big donors overlook libraries. Although the ... around town. But as we've reported, some funders in New York City and elsewhere remain...
Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published
Release Date:
07/26/2017
... early education and related programs. – across the U.S., in New York, and other nations. The research was funded by ... Lackman served as Principal Investigator, while a Scholar in Residence at the Graduate...
Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... rising fast among older Americans. Their study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, compared data from a national survey taken in 2001 and 2002 and again in 2012 and 2013, each time with about 40,...
New Video From TCC Group: The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... environment requires foundations to be nimble in maximizing opportunities to advance their agendas. At the ... an assessment of 54 foundations that participated in taking a new tool, developed for funders by...
New Research Supported By Simons Foundation Points to Cellular Roots of Autism
Release Date:
12/05/2017
... a new genetic model of autism, using neurons created in the lab from patients’ own skin cells. Their experiments suggest that abnormalities in the electrical firing of neurons may lead to behavioral and...
With Support from Gerstner and Heckscher Foundations, SUNY Announces Emergency Aid to Support Degree Completion Among Students
Release Date:
12/19/2017
... threaten to derail them. "Across the nation, studies report as many as 65 percent of students surveyed who drop ... manage this grant program to provide aid to our students in the short-term, and assess...
A New Map, Funded By The New York Community Trust Lets You Search Every NYC Landmark
Release Date:
12/19/2017
... wondered whether the protected building you’re standing in front sports Richardsonian Romanesque or Queen Anne ... get your answer on the spot. The LPC’s map first debuted in March 2016 with the city’s 1,400...
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Supporting Local Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Foundations - Webinar
Thursday, February 1, 2018 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
... with brief reflections on the recently-released report Supporting Local Organizations: Challenges and ... email register@philanthropynewyork.org with any questions. In collaboration with Supporting Local...
A New Study Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Reveals that Antioxidant Therapy Prevents Vision Loss in Rare Birth Defect
Release Date:
02/07/2018
... Reveals that Antioxidant Therapy Prevents Vision Loss in Rare Birth Defect A new study led by vision researchers at ... to the current standard-of-care prevented vision loss in an animal model of a rare...
NoVo Foundation Announces Three Winners of the Pathways to Freedom Challenge
Release Date:
02/15/2018
... Chicago, and Minneapolis were selected to participate in a first-of-its-kind anti-trafficking challenge to develop ... from the challenge will support a senior fellow’s salary in city government for two years...
Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser
Release Date:
02/21/2018
... a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. As the team reports in a paper published online in December in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing ...
The Foundation for Child Development Introduces The NYC Early Childhood Research Network
Release Date:
02/28/2018
... Child Development (the Foundation) has released its latest report “New York City Early Childhood Research Network: A ... mission to focus on the early care and education workforce in the context of continuous...