Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want
Release Date:
12/01/2015
... It also, of course, requires the correct blend of policies and funding. This is an increasingly urgent ...
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Donald Moulds of Commonwealth Fund Joins Grantmakers in Health Board
Release Date:
12/11/2015
Donald Moulds, executive vice president for programs at The Commonwealth Fund, was elected to a three-year term of the board of directors of Grantmakers in Health.
Open Society, Tow and Other Foundations Release Blueprint for Youth Justice Reform
Release Date:
01/12/2016
... for Policy and Practice, which emphasizes the need for policies and programs that support the healthy development of ...
Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness)
Release Date:
01/13/2016
A large new study reveals previously unknown risk factors associated with an eye condition that causes serious progressive nearsightedness at a relatively young age. The findings, made through the largest-ever clinical study of the condition called...
Guardian: Are Gates and Rockefeller Using Their Influence to Set Agenda in Poor States?
Release Date:
01/19/2016
Ultra-rich philanthropists and their foundations have increasing influence on decision-making and are setting the global health and agriculture agenda in developing countries, according to a major study.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools
Release Date:
02/04/2016
... being buried under a culture of "zero tolerance." These policies are turning what should be centers of learning and .....
DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust
Release Date:
02/04/2016
The lives of New York senior citizens are the subject of a year-long project called Exceeding Expectations, which is run by the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and led by journalist...
Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps
Release Date:
02/22/2016
Fewer than half of the more than 1,000 healthcare related-apps reviewed by researchers appeared to be useful for their potential for patient engagement, The Commonwealth Fund reports.
Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration
Release Date:
02/23/2016
... are loath to admit the role that their enrollment policies play in perpetuating de facto segregation. . . ...
Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art
Release Date:
03/07/2016
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has decided to adopt a new policy of making images of Rauschenberg work much more widely available free.
Rockefeller-founded Asia Society Marks 60 Years of Building Bridges Between the U.S. & Asia
Release Date:
03/15/2016
Asia Society will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2016 with special exhibitions and signature events across the Society's global network that kick off this week in New York.
Century Foundation Report Recommends Universal Child Allowance
Release Date:
03/17/2016
The child poverty rate in the United States is stubbornly high, with more than 12 million American children—16.5 percent of all children—currently living in poverty and a Century Foundation report says a universal child allowance could change it.
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Strategy, Struggle and Participation: Three Questions to Improve Your Social-Change Stories
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Storytelling helps social-change groups do better at everything that they do—enlist members, raise funds, take the pulse of their communities, change policy and behavior.
Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks
Release Date:
04/29/2016
Kathy Reich will guide the foundation's BUILD efforts in the United States and across its 10 global offices to implement sector-leading approaches to supporting the sustainability, vitality, and effectiveness of organizations and networks that serve...
New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers
Release Date:
05/16/2016
The New York Community Trust (NYCT) has renewed a grant through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to educate and train more social workers.
PhilTV: Do Money and Mission Mix? How Foundations Are Using Sustainable Investment to Address Climate Change
Release Date:
05/31/2016
... program-related investments, but also apply ESG policies to their entire portfolios. Nnone of the panelists ... the example of home builders, some of whom have developed policies to address climate change in...
Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building
Release Date:
07/05/2016
Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money.
Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City
Release Date:
08/19/2016
About 127,000 New York City public school students — or one in eight — have been homeless at some point in the last five school years, more than the total population of Boston and Seattle’s school systems combined.
Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health
Release Date:
08/23/2016
“The goal here is really to address this giant gap, whereby we know 65 percent of deaths in the world — that’s about 35 million — go unrecorded,” said Dr. Kelly Henning, who has led the Bloomberg Philanthropies public health program since it started...
Funders Need Good Data to Evaluate Programs That Decriminalize Drug Addiction
Release Date:
09/20/2016
Insha Rahman, Senior Planner at the Vera Institute, comments on the recent PNY Program, "Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic."