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Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants $4.3 Million to Develop Tools for the Clinical Testing of Anti-fibrotic Treatments for Crohn’s Disease Patients

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04/15/2019

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded $4.3 million to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and Robarts Clinical Trials, Inc. to launch the Stenosis Therapy and Anti-Fibrotic Research (STAR) consortium for the development of...

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Estée Lauder Names Bari Seiden-Young Svp, Global Corporate Communications, Citizenship and Sustainability

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04/15/2019

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. has announced the promotion of Bari Seiden-Young to the role of senior vice president, global corporate communications, citizenship and sustainability.

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DDCF Launches Doris Duke Physician Scientist Fellowship

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04/12/2019

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) today announced the launch of the new Doris Duke Physician Scientist Fellowship program.

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Ralph C. Wilson Foundation, Hospitals Launch Caregiver Support Program

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04/12/2019

The Cleveland Clinic, Ascension Michigan, Catholic Health, and Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation have announced a $20 million partnership aimed at supporting caregivers.

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Aging

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A Decade of Impact: Bloomberg LP Improves Energy Efficiency by 45%

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04/11/2019

Bloomberg LP’s sustainable business practices have improved the company’s energy efficiency by 45% since 2008, avoiding more than 1 million metric tonnes of CO2e emissions, according to the company’s 10 th annual Impact Report released today.

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Environment and Climate Change

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A Consequential Myth

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04/09/2019

Race is a fictive idea that holds real-life consequences. As a black man, who has a six-foot-and-three-inch-tall presence, I am intimately familiar with the tangibility of the myth. Although many anthropologist and geneticists have disproved any...

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Justice Reform

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Leaving Rikers: What the New York Women's Foundation Is Doing for Women in New York City's Worst Jail

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04/09/2019

The New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF) created a Justice Fund in 2018 to address mass incarceration and its effects on women, girls and transgender and gender nonconforming communities in New York City.

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The New York Community Trust Grants $4.8 Million to Invest in a Fairer, More Equitable New York

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04/08/2019

Combating youth violence, addressing climate change, and improving access to mass transit. These are just three of the 46 projects New York’s community foundation is supporting to improve life for New Yorkers.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night

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04/05/2019

Birds that produce faint chirps called flight calls during nighttime migration collide with illuminated buildings much more often than closely related species that don’t produce such calls, report researchers.