Una Osili: Data, funding can ensure fair vaccine distribution
Countries will require comprehensive, timely and high-quality data to address the challenges of vaccine delivery effectively.
Countries will require comprehensive, timely and high-quality data to address the challenges of vaccine delivery effectively.
The not-for-profit launched in 2013 as a way to bridge the gap between research universities and industry in life sciences. But its report card so far is decidedly mixed, and it just hired its third CEO.
Since inception, DonorsChoose has raised over $1 billion from 4.6 million donors and funded 1.8 million projects submitted by 617,260 teachers from 85,043 public schools.
The transit system has raised just 1% or so of the private funding called for by a state law that helped fund a major expansion of the system.
Here are six companies and one not-for-profit organization from central Indiana that are experimenting in the ed-tech sector.
The Indianapolis-based grant maker intends about 25% of the money to help organizations and initiatives in Indiana over three years. Half a million dollars already has been committed to the Central Indiana Racial Equity Fund.
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The city is just six months from a tentative opening for the first piece of the justice campus project, the 37,000-square-foot Assessment and Intervention Center. Construction on other buildings in phase one is well underway, and the city has started planning for phases two and three.
For the Lilly Endowment, a good year means it’s time to cash in.
The endowment’s assets reached $15.1 billion at the end of 2018, pushing it ahead of the Ford Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust, which had assets of $13.1 billion and $13.2 billion, respectively.
And that’s despite the fact that 73% of all not-for-profit employees are female, according to Philadelphia software developer DonorPerfect.
University research budgets and federal funding levels are seen as increasingly important drivers of economic development as they give rise to more licensed technology and startup companies.
Les Zwirn has located a couple of foundations willing to fund efforts to increase political literacy but only when it’s disconnected from electoral politics. He calls that ironic.
There is a limit to what government can do, should do and, unfortunately, will do.
According to Nonprofit Quarterly, the number of donor-advised fund accounts has increased 200% over the past five years.
Growth in charitable giving in the United States slowed in 2018, possibly as a result of the 2017 tax reform bill, according to an annual report that tracks American giving patterns. But the decline wasn’t as big as many predicted.
Backed by more than $100 million in funding from Indiana companies and foundations, the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute has hired 39 employees and hopes to ramp up to 80 within another three years.
The Central Indiana Community Foundation’s new five-year plan focuses on making Indianapolis a more inclusive city, a goal it hopes to achieve partly by training 5,000 community leaders and residents about institutional racism.
Indiana University has launched a support program at all its campuses that school officials hope will lead to an onslaught of startups coming out of the school.