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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain -- The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will...

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Wallace Foundation: New Report Sheds Light on How Effective Nonprofits Expand Their Reach Through Partnerships

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09/19/2017

In successfully scaling up social programs through partnerships, 45 diverse nonprofits faced three key choices: their partner, their approach to spreading their work, and their call on the balance between fidelity and flexibility at the expansion...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, they took some heat for incorporating it as an LLC—since such entities can operate with little transparency.

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Mayor's Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says

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09/18/2017

With the city’s homelessness crisis unabated, housing advocates are asking why most of the units created or preserved under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s affordable housing plan fail to target the city’s low-income New Yorkers who need help the most.

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NY Bans State Agencies from Questioning Immigration Status

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09/18/2017

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies or state officers from inquiring about or sharing a person's immigration status.

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Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September

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09/18/2017

Senate Republican leaders seem increasingly focused on reviving their effort to undo the Affordable Care Act before the end of the month, asking Congress’s nonpartisan budget analysts to fast-track consideration of a plan that would devolve federal...

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Feds Overrule New York's Natural Gas Pipeline Permit Denial

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09/18/2017

Federal regulators have overruled New York state's denial of a key permit for a pipeline expansion fueling a $900 million power plant under construction.