May 16, 2013
I live in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago called Little Village. A few years ago, I felt like every time I looked around, I saw more and more obese kids.
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May 13, 2013
The serial events that lead so many low-income college students to drop out of college sometimes remind me of a recent DirecTV ad. The commercial is intended to be funny, but it parallels the compounding struggles faced by low-income college students in a painful way.
May 09, 2013
How do Indian families living in urban poverty approach health care? To answer this question and better understand how to structure emergency health loans for India’s urban poor, the foundation recently commissioned a study of families in five Mumbai slums.
Apr 29, 2013
The Request for Proposal can be downloaded HERE.
Apr 19, 2013
THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION FOR KIDS is a family-friendly three-part series of half-hour specials for young people spotlighting decisions children and their families can make to improve their health now and in the future.
Apr 11, 2013
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation’s Dell Scholars Program today awarded 303 students across the country with $6,060,000 in college scholarship funds for a total of $55 million invested in 2,548 scholars to date.
Feb 29, 2012
With an estimated 5.7 million HIV- and AIDS-positive residents, South Africa is believed to have highest prevalence of the disease in the world. Women and children are among the hardest hit, with an estimated 3.2 million women and 280,000 children infected.
Feb 28, 2012
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Travis County is stepping in to fill a critical void by matching trained community volunteers with cases and providing the individualized attention the children deserve.
Jan 20, 2012
At the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation set out to better understand the role of performance-driven education in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (CMS) classrooms
