All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A collaborative effort to launch a project to revitalize the family planning and reproductive health global agenda was announced on Wednesday in Kampala by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Philanthropy 2173 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
(Photo by Andrew Roddewig, New Clarion Media, http://burnhamplan100.uchicago.edu/multimedia/image_gallery/detail/2256) Data are getting their moment in the sun. Data visualization (also known as infographics) like this unemployment map from The New York Times, may be part of the reason reading newspapers on the web can be so much more fun than reading them on paper. It may also be part of the business...
The New Security Beat (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"Family planning is one of the biggest success stories of development cooperation,” said Bert Koenders , Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, via video at a roundtable discussion on the future of family planning and reproductive health. Koenders was followed by representatives of three of the field’s largest donors, Musimbi Kanyoro , director of the David and Lucile Packard...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced last Thursday (22) that it intends to commit up to $100 million for the expansion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. This will be the lead gift in the Hospital’s campaign to add 104 new beds to its Palo Alto campus and expand access to state-of-the-art treatments for local children. With...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation said today it plans to give as much as $100 million to help pay for the planned expansion of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. The donation is the lead grant in the 312-bed pediatric hospital's...
The East Bay Business Times (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation said Thursday that it is committing “up to $100 million” to help fund the expansion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, with half of the funds constituting a challenge grant for other donors.
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
School districts across the states often use free or reduced cost school lunches to determine poverty in their districts. For the state of California, the students applying for free meals has increased at a dramatic rate, the largest increase in a decade. From the Palo Alto Online, writer Chris Kenrick looks at a new report issued from the Lucile Packard Foundation. Nearly 19,000 more California children...
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