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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with...

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Long Island Community Foundation Names New Board Members

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08/07/2017

The Long Island Community Foundation recently named three new board members. “We are thrilled to welcome these three talented and iconic community leaders to our Board,” said David M. Okorn, LICF’s executive director.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies: National Three-Year Evaluation of Municipal Financial Counseling Model Shows Financial Counseling Works as Public Program

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08/07/2017

The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund published An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers: Building People's Financial Stability As a Public Service, a three-year assessment of the initiative's initial replication in 5 cities. Financial...

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Ms. Foundation Returns to Martha’s Vineyard

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08/07/2017

The Ms. Foundation for Women, the country’s first women’s fund, returns to Martha’s Vineyard for its fourth annual summer celebration of feminism.

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

To bolster the 1968 Fair Housing Act, we need a new “economic fair housing act” to prohibit or discourage local ordinances that unnecessarily exclude people from entire neighborhoods and their schools.

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Commonwealth Fund Report Predicts a Detrimental Impact of an ACA Repeal on Jobs

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08/04/2017

A report by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and the Commonwealth Fund predicts bad news if Congress repeals the ACA. Research shows that the loss of 'ACA tax credits and Medicaid expansion would lead to a...

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New York Foundation Welcomes Altaf Rahamatulla as Program Officer

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08/04/2017

Altaf Rahamatulla comes to New York Foundation from the Ford Foundation where he served as a program associate on the Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice team.

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New Mellon Fellowship Program Explores Cultural Preservation through Long-Term Conservation of Navajo Textiles

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08/04/2017

The Heard Museum has been awarded a $300,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a fellowship program centered on care and long-term preservation of Navajo textiles while potentially gaining new insights into conservation techniques.

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Rockefeller Survey Finds Male Attitudes Are Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business

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08/03/2017

A new survey from the Rockefeller Foundation found a non-traditional explanation for why there are so few female CEOs: Male attitudes.

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Bloomberg, Tiffany Support Ocean Conservation and Climate Change Communications

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08/03/2017

Richard Vevers worked in ad agencies for 10 years, then left to become an underwater photographer and ended up founding a not-for-profit organization called The Ocean Agency. His films of coral reefs are spreading the word about climate change...

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