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The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation is a privately endowed philanthropy located in the borough of Manhattan, New York City.

The Foundation supports programs designed to improve the education of health professionals in the interest of the health of the public.

Important News:

We are currently accepting proposals to participate in the upcoming conference, Educating Nurses and Physicians: Toward New Horizons, hosted by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Scheduled for June 16-18, 2010, this conference is designed to explore implementation of reforms in nursing and medical education called for by the Carnegie Foundation’s forthcoming studies, Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation and Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform.

Proposals to attend the conference must be received by February 10, 2010.

Download the RFP Here. (PDF, 200K)






“The Foundation is to devote its interests to the fundamental aspects of health, of sickness, and of the methods for the relief of suffering” and that the Foundation would “take more interest in the architecture of ideas than in the architecture of buildings and laboratories.”

Kate Macy Ladd