Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards $7.3 Million for Evaluation of Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative
The grant to Penn State professor Dennis Scanlon will fund through 2016 an evaluation of the foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality effort to improve healthcare quality by helping community stakeholders work together to redesign health systems....
MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and HASTAC Launch Open Badges Initiative
The partner organizations will provide outreach and technical assistance to help employers and universities incorporate Open Badges — online representations of earned knowledge and skills — into hiring, promotions, admissions, and credit....
McCormick Foundation Awards $6 Million for Early Childhood Care, Education
The grants will help fund projects including public policy and advocacy efforts to expand access to early learning programs, alignment of common learning standards, quality programs in principal and teacher preparation, and early math instruction....
Home Depot Foundation Awards $2 Million to Volunteers of America to Assist Veterans
The grants include approximately $1.475 million in support of fifteen VOA programs in nine states to help refurbish or build housing for up to 757 male and female homeless veterans....
Print isn't dead! Idealware's Kyle Henri Andrei defines the types and providers of print-on-demand services that can help non-
The president and CEO of the Boston Foundation weighs in on the critical link between collaboration and innovation in the social sector and discusses results from the Collaborate Boston contest....
The executive director of the Lynch Foundation spoke to PND about the foundation's efforts to bring innovative thinking — and Khan Academy — to Boston-area classrooms....
With a focus on advocacy, the 47-member coalition works to educate the public about issues related to gun violence in the United States....
On the blog, the Wasie Foundation's Jen Klaassens advocates for the charitable deduc-
