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Weinberg Foundation Launches Annual Community-Wide Book Drive Benefiting Baltimore Library Project

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03/01/2017

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, tomorrow will launch its 6 th annual community-wide Book Drive in support of the Baltimore Elementary and Middle School Library Project.

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Open Society Foundations Supports Climate Change Glossary

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03/01/2017

Even as we shake our heads over the changing weather, or moan about the fumes belched from the vehicles in our cities, climate change still feels a distant problem.

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Foundation for Child Development Sponsors Study that Finds Children Learning English Require Better Support for Academic Success

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03/01/2017

Despite their potential, many English learners (ELs) -- who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the U.S. -- lag behind their English-speaking monolingual peers in educational achievement.

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Century Foundation Report Finds Out Why High-Risk Insurance Pools Still Won't Work

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03/01/2017

Recently, leaked documents from House Republicans show plans to create high-risk pools as an alternative to the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) guaranteed access to health insurance for people with pre-existing conditions.

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NY Women’s Foundation’s Oliveira Offers Blueprint for Investing in Vulnerable Young Girls

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02/28/2017

Ana Oliveira, President and CEO of the NY Women's Foundation, argues that "if we want the low-income girls of our city to be as healthy, stable, and successful as possible, we need to better recognize, respect, and bolster the strengths of the low-...

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

The first national study of language learning in 30 years was requested from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences by a bipartisan group of members of U.S. Senate & House of Representatives.

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With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species

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02/28/2017

Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate group distantly connected to monkeys, apes and humans, a USC researcher said

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tiffany & Co. Foundation and Others Partner to Launch '50 Reefs' Global Initiative to Protect Critical Ecosystem

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02/28/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Australian nonprofit Ocean Agency, and the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, has announced the launch of a global...

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Open Society Foundations Releases Video Showing A New Outlook on Growing Up Intersex

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02/27/2017

In Uganda, growing up as an intersex person is a complicated, often dangerous experience.

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Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness

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02/27/2017

Scientists at the Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology at the Kresge Eye Institute are the first to show that the Zika virus (ZIKV) can replicate in the eye's retinal cells, causing severe tissue damage and even...

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