Results List
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UCSF Receives $125 Million for New Medical Center at Mission Bay
By Robin Hindery UCSF has received one of the largest gifts in its 145-year history $125 million as the lead funding for a state-of-the-art medical center at the Mission Bay campus. The transformative donation injects a shot of adrenaline into an ambitious project that will…
Author: The University of California, San Francisco
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National Dementia Strategy to Focus on Community Care and Stigma
Mary Sutton from Atlantic Philanthropies and Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the launch of the Irish National Dementia Strategy at Government Buildings. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins By Mark Hillard Taoiseach Enda Kenny has unveiled a €27.5 million national dementia strategy that will focus on shattering the stigma of the…
Author: Irish Times
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Foundation Center Launches Tool to Visualize Impact of Philanthropy
The New York City-based Foundation Center has announced the launch of a data visualization tool to help grantmakers, policy makers, researchers, and others better understand the impact of philanthropy around the world. Philanthropy In/Sight allows registered users to create customized Google maps to explore giving patterns,…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Grant to help center expand program to the national level
Original Source By: Ashley Schneider The Atlantic Philanthropies awarded a $3.5 million grant to Kevin Mahoney, a professor in the graduate school of social work and director of the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (CSHCL), to help the center’s Cash & Counseling Program…
Author: Boston College Heights
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First Year of Center for Afterschool Excellence Program a Success, Report Finds
The first year of the Center for After-School Excellence’s certificate program saw a high level of participant satisfaction and a relatively high level of completion, a new report from Policy Studies Associates finds. Launched in 2007, the one-year program enables staff who serve New York…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Major Grant Expands Center for the Study of Inequality
By Linda B. Glaser A recent, $10 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) will support new research and educational opportunities focused on the causes and consequences of inequality. Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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Video Advocacy - It's Easier than it Looks
By Adam Searing, North Carolina Justice Center Recently my colleague Adam Linker and I had the opportunity from our friends here at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and Atlantic Philanthropies to leave the North Carolina Justice Center and travel to other state capitols around the country.…
Author: Georgetown Center for Children and Families
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Organizations Provide $8.7 Million to Launch a National Center to Improve Care for Complex Patients
CAMDEN, N.J.—The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a national center to improve care for high-need patients who experience poor outcomes despite extreme patterns of hospitalizations or emergency care. Inefficient and ineffective care of these patients has been identified as a driver…
Author: Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
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Statement on the Devastating Effects of the Ryan Budget
The Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) released the following statement regarding U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget resolution. “U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget resolution is not a balanced approach to deficit reduction. In fact, it contains little real deficit…
Author: Center for Public Policy Priorities
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National Geriatric Home Health Care Quality Program Offers New Tools and Discussion Forums Through an Expanded Web Site
June 30 expansion of CHAMP Program web site includes new online community features, best practices, resources, and tools 01 Jul 2009 New York, NY (PRWEB) July 1, 2009 – To improve the quality of home care services for older persons, the Center for Home Care…
Author: Center for Home Care Policy & Research