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Supported by Commonwealth Fund, Study Shows Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test

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07/18/2016

A new UCSF study finds that some of the most popular apps for diabetes, depression and caregivers are too difficult to use, especially by underserved populations.

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NYS Health Foundation President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic

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07/18/2016

From 1981 to 2013, an estimated 1,194,039 people in the United States had been diagnosed with AIDS. Of those, 658,507 have died.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Welcomes New Trustees to its Board

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07/15/2016

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has elected several new members to its board of trustees. Jennifer Nolan was elected to the board in March, and she is joined by Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Heather McGhee, Miranda Kaiser, and Wyatt Rockefeller, who were...

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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark energy currently...

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

Warren Buffett has donated roughly $2.9 billion more Berkshire Hathaway Inc stock to five foundations, as part of the billionaire's plan to give away almost his entire fortune.

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Rausch and Long Island Community Foundations Partner to Expand Tourism in Riverhead

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07/15/2016

Their focus is on expanding tourism — which includes drawing visitors from New York City and promoting Riverhead as a place people plan their vacations around — and emphasizing the town’s arts and culture services.

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

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07/15/2016

“If America is to be America, we have to engage in a larger conversation than just the criminal justice system,” notes Walker.

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Rockefeller Exec Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments

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07/15/2016

The grant maker's plans includes helping finance efforts to develop renewable-energy technogies, deliver clean electricity to rural India, and create insurance products for extreme-weather events in Africa.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Novo Foundation and Goren Group Announce Winner of Women's Building International Design Competition

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07/14/2016

The winner will lead the conversion of the former Bayview Correctional Facility in New York into a hub for the girls’ and women’s rights movement.

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Gender Justice

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Rubin Foundation Announces Participants in 2016 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Social Practice

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07/14/2016

IAP: Social Practice is a year-long professional development program for immigrant and 1st-generation artists working in all forms of socially engaged art.

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