Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna
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09/14/2017
The author and journalist’s new book explains how antibiotics overuse helped chicken ascend from a local delicacy to an everyday protein, with serious health consequences as a result.
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Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force
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09/14/2017
In New York’s most troubled neighborhoods, Service Year members are teaching their neighbors environmental sustainability — all the while learning essential job skills for the workforce.
Opinion: After Primary Win, Accountability Begins For Eric Gonzalez
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has said he wants to make his office the most progressive in the country. We’re delighted to hear this, and our work now begins in holding him accountable.
High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns
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09/14/2017
When the corporate foundation at German engineering giant Siemens went looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant applications. Instead, it used a hot new format for foundations: a prize...
Foundation Presidents Defend Donor-Advised Funds—Is That the Best They Can Do?
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09/14/2017
Earlier this month, a coalition of philanthropic trade associations—namely, the Council of Foundations, Independent Sector, The Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Columbus Foundation (on behalf of community foundations)—wrote a letter (which...
A Deadly Disease Threatens To Regain Ground Deep In The African Jungle
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09/14/2017
More than 80 percent of the world’s sleeping sickness cases today occur in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The parasitic disease is fatal if untreated, yet difficult to diagnose early.
Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?
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09/14/2017
Research partnerships between business and academia have been happening for decades, but we’re seeing a lot of them crop up these days due in part to struggles for funding, with AI in particular driving some serious dollars to universities.
Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis To Step Down In March
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09/14/2017
Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis will step down in March 2018 after five productive years at the helm.
Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline
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09/14/2017
"Men are doing worse than they were in 1973," said Sheldon Danziger, president of the Russell Sage Foundation, which focuses on poverty research. "Women's earnings are substantially higher, but men's earnings have declined."
IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Today, the IBM Foundation announced the availability of Teacher Advisor With Watson 1.0, software that uses Watson artificial intelligence technology– trained by some of the nation’s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers...
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