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2017 NoVo Social Emotional Learning Innovation Fund Award Winners Announced

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07/17/2017

Today Education First, NoVo Foundation and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors announced the winners of the Social Emotional Learning Innovation Awards. Nearly 500 teachers and over 300 districts across the country applied for an award, and 67...

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Unbound Philanthropy is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It?

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07/17/2017

How can philanthropy support immigrants in a country that elected a blatantly anti-immigrant president? That’s a question lots of funders have been asking themselves since last November. Interestingly, though, there are very few funders around that...

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Novo Foundation Receives Some of the Billions and Billions That Warren Buffett Is Giving Away

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07/17/2017

Investor Warren Buffett’s annual gifts to five foundations controlled by his three children, announced this week, were worth a record-breaking $3.17 billion.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $750,000 Grant to Bard College for "Cultures of Conservation" Curriculum

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07/13/2017

The second phase of “Cultures of Conservation” will continue its mission to model the best ways of integrating the approaches and insights of objects conservation and materials science with those of academics in the human sciences (anthropology,...

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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

A new report from the Urban Institute tells much of the reason why the nation’s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in recent years: Prisoners sentenced to long terms under laws passed in previous decades still are locked up, and...

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Snapshot of Veterans and Health in New York State

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07/13/2017

Who are New York State's veterans? Where do they live? When did they serve? And where do they turn to for their health care needs? These are the questions the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) seeks to answer in a new snapshot of the...

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Brooklyn’s Crown Heights Residents Direct $100,000 for Inclusive Public Spaces via Brooklyn Community Foundation

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07/13/2017

The grants are made through the Foundation’s Neighborhood Strength initiative, a unique resident-led grantmaking model started in Crown Heights.

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California Governor Jerry Brown and Michael Bloomberg Launch “America’s Pledge”

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07/12/2017

The initiative will compile and quantify efforts from U.S. states, cities, businesses and other actors to address climate change in alignment with the Paris Agreement.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

The researchers say pediatricians may want to counsel parents of high birthweight babies early on to prevent the onset of obesity and the health problems it eventually brings.

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With Support from Research to Prevent Blindness, Researchers at UIC Identify Master Molecule Behind Corneal Inflammation

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07/12/2017

Now, researchers during a University of Illinois during Chicago have identified an enzyme benefaction in a cornea that becomes dramatically upregulated and triggers inflammation during and even after a herpes pathogen infection has cleared.

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