Rockefeller Foundation Launches $100 Million Initiative to Strengthen Health Systems in Africa, Asia
Through the new initiative, the foundation and its partners will work to establish more accessible, efficient health systems with improved financial protections and make universal health coverage an accepted, feasible, and desirable goal everywhere....
Obama Pledges Support for Social Innovation, Encourages Public-Private Partnerships
In launching the Community Solutions Agenda, the president called on government, business, foundations, and average citizens to come together to identify and invest in promising solutions to the nation's toughest problems....
McKnight Foundation Announces New Literacy Initiative
While the foundation has decided to focus on improving the literacy rate among area students by the end of third grade, it will discontinue discrete grantmaking to support fatherhood development, parenting skills building, and family economic success....
Silicon Valley Community Foundation, San Mateo County Announce $1 Million in Safety-Net Grants
Twenty-seven organizations that provide food and shelter will receive a total of $766,000, while $234,000 will be awarded to five groups that provide health and dental care, services for victims of domestic violence, and employment counseling....
Zaman, a program officer at Global Giving, discusses why it's important reduce the obsta- cles facing Muslim American donors wishing to honor their religious obligation to charitable giving....
PND spoke with Chen about the roles of technology and assessment in student learning as well as the future of the U.S. education system.... 
YMF works to pre-
An initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Changemakers is a global online platform that connects volunteers with social innovators through open source competitions....
FC SVP Larry McGill looks at the nature of data and its uses; Kaye Pyle reports from the annual Robert Fla- herty film seminar; and Susan Herr dramatizes four scenarios for the future of journalism....
