The Tow Foundation
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A family foundation that believes all people should have a high quality of life and a voice in their community.
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Grantee partner Brennan Center Center has identified a growing 'racial turnout gap' among voters in a new research report. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
How are new bureaucratic barriers to Pell Grants affecting college-in-prison programs? Staff and alumni from grantee Bard Prison Initiative weigh in. newhampshirebulletin.com/2024/04/29/tra…
These efforts are well worth celebrating! -- University of New Haven Prison Education Program, Yale Prison Education Initiative, Tow Youth newhaven.edu/news/blog/2024…
Reporting by Sarah Stillman on felony murder, supported by the Felony Murder Reporting Project launched by grantee Zealous in partnership with Stillman’s Yale Investigative Reporting Lab, has been awarded the 2024 The Pulitzer Prizes for Explanatory Reporting. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
Get to know the work of grantee The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice, a national nonprofit that works to change perceptions of the criminal justice system, leads tours of prisons for the general public and facilitates conversations with the people incarcerated there. signalcleveland.org/douglass-proje…
We're excited to see where these leaders take cancer research in the coming years. Congrats to James Smithy, MD, MHS of grantee Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on the recognition of his melanoma research. cancerhealth.com/article/meet-f…
Great to see our grantees Roundabout Clubbed Thumb St. Ann's Warehouse among the nominees for the Drama eLeague Awards. dctheaterarts.org/2024/04/22/nom…
Is AI an existential threat to journalism? A white paper from Tow Center suggests it doesn't need to be if we are intentional about its implementation. forbes.com/sites/meglittl…
Grantee Vera Institute of Justice's Designed for Dignity initiative helps corrections departments create and sustain safer and more humane environments for people who work, visit, and are incarcerated in prisons. corrections1.com/re-entry-and-r…
A fun behind-the-scenes look at single-cell RNA sequencing with grantee NY Genome Center. nature.com/articles/s4159…
As fear of how AI will interact with social media grows, Tow Center Senior Fellow Anika Collier Navaroli writes '...It feels like they just keep making it easier for the bad predictions to come true.” washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
A new piece from grantee Vera Institute of Justice argues that the frequent underreporting of jail deaths speaks to the jail system's impulse to 'hide and punish people' rather than address their needs. vera.org/news/the-hidde…
.Vineyard Theatre’s Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence Nazareth Hassan will speak on skateboarding as a theatrical movement language during an upcoming panel on the transformation of work from script to stage. Tickets are available now. vineyardtheatre.org/shows/fearless…
.Tow Center's Doron Taussig writes of the challenge facing local journalists to remain trusted across partisan lines. cjr.org/tow_center/the…
'There is a particular kind of beauty in the belief that freedom might begin with a book.' - Reginald Dwayne Betts, Founder and Director of grantee Freedom Reads, on the importance of books in solitary confinement. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…
A study led by Dr. Anoushka Joglekar, a postdoctoral researcher at grantee NY Genome Center, assembled the most comprehensive atlas of messenger RNA, which will aid in understanding brain development, neuron specialization and other brain functions. news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2024/04/n…
Grantee Bard Prison Initiative receives congressional funding to deepen its programs in New York. hudsonvalleypress.com/2024/04/10/bar…