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Three Prominent Leaders Recognized By United Hospital Fund For Their Work To Improve Health And Health Care

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09/29/2016

United Hospital Fund paid tribute to Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, Scott B. Salmirs, and Herbert Pardes, MD,at its annual gala, acknowledging their important contributions to improving health and health care.

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Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum

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09/28/2016

The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum announces the appointment of Camille Ann Brewer as the museum’s first full-time curator of contemporary textile art.

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Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

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09/28/2016

A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) screened thousands of non-coding RNAs to find those that were expressed at high levels in two types of aggressive breast cancer.

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Andrus Family Fund's Peguro Praised in NCRP's Reflections on Resilience and Community Building

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09/28/2016

Leticia Peguero, Executive Director of the Andrus Family Fund, urged confrerence attendees to embrace a hashtag call to action: #hayotraforma (#thereisanotherway).

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Donzelina Barroso Named as Director, Global Philanthropy, for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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09/28/2016

A seasoned philanthropic expert, Barroso will lead RPA’s London office.

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16 Nov 2016

Gun Violence in America: Newtown and a Public Health Crisis

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 -

4:00pm to 6:30pm

We invite you to join Media Impact Funders and Philanthropy New York for a special screening and discussion of the powerful film Newtown and a conversation about the increasing need to take a public health approach to curbing gun violence in America.

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26 Oct 2016

Service for Impact

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Strategic volunteerism is a critical component of how corporations harness the time and talent of employees at all levels to support nonprofit partners and meet true community needs.

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The New York Women’s Foundation Celebrates Six Outstanding Women Leaders of Queens

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09/27/2016

Martha Baker, Barbara Wynne, Katherine H. Kim, Patricia Simon, Nataly Rubio-Torio and Andrea Ormeño were recognized for their outstanding contributions to community and their work promoting social change.

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Boutiques for the People

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09/27/2016

Judith Shapiro, president of the Teagle Foundation, says it's certainly understandable that scalability has become the holy grail of higher education reform, but the dismissive attitude toward so-called boutique programs presents an occasion for...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Gives $300M to Johns Hopkins to Tackle Major Domestic Health Issues

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09/27/2016

Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the school, the gift sets the school and its partners on a path to transform our national approach to modern public health challenges.

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Supported by Verizon Foundation, Three High School Students Graduate from 'Girls Who Code' Program at NJIT

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09/27/2016

The intensive summer program, which meets Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., combines more than 300 hours of instruction in web development and design, robotics and mobile development with mentorship and exposure, led by top female engineers...

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Weinberg Foundation Employees Given $500,000 to be Grantmakers for a Day

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09/27/2016

At the event, 25 employees will each present a check for $20,000 to a Maryland nonprofit consistent with the Foundation's mission and grant guidelines.

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15 Nov 2016

School Discipline is Changing. For the Better?

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor for Equality Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The Atlantic Philanthropies, just co-edited and published her latest book, Inequality in School Discipline , that addresses the profound and life-...

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05 Oct 2016

Urban Agriculture & Social Justice Activism

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 -

5:30pm to 7:30pm

http://sph.cuny.edu/ Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet realizing social and environmental justice requires moving beyond food production to address deeper issues such as...

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Tiffany & Co. Supports Ocean Conservation

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09/26/2016

Tiffany & Co. and its head of philanthropy, Anisa Kamadoli Costa, are two names that show up all over marine conservation efforts.

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

As a first-of-its-kind human-digital platform, eKutir Global has reached 70,000 farmers through a network of licensed community agents by connecting them to tools, finance and buyers.

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Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated

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09/26/2016

The research marks a step forward in the quest to develop personalized brain stimulation as a treatment for disease.

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the selection of eighty-four faculty scholars, early-career scientists at forty-three institutions who have great potential to...

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Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth

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09/23/2016

Tenured professor jobs are even harder to come by, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program officer Andrew Bengochea said, and Latino students need more institutional and foundational support to persist, particularly in humanities disciplines.

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Bloomberg Awards $10 Million for Women Coffee Farmers in Africa

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09/23/2016

Announced during the U.S.-Africa Business Forum, the grant will enable an additional twenty thousand women to benefit from and participate in Africa's economic growth through training programs and access to the region's coffee market.

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