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Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp

Release Date:

05/14/2019

... explanation for that result is that the small nervous system of honeybees imposes cognitive constraints that ... transitive inference. Paper wasps have a nervous system roughly the same size--about one million...

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Doris Duke Foundation

Addressing Patients' Social Needs Within Health Care Delivery is Key to Improving Health Outcomes and Reducing Health Disparities, Says New Report Supported by Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

Release Date:

09/25/2019

... health care, the report says. Firstly, the health care system is moving toward paying care providers based on health ... as housing, reliable transportation, or a strong support system at home are not...

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Casey Family Programs Announces 2020 Casey Excellence for Children Awards

Release Date:

01/13/2020

... serve as role models, or advocate for much-needed system changes, these honorees are making communities more ... those with lived experience in the child welfare system , who are working to safely reduce the...

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03 Apr 2020

New York Foster Youth Funders Meeting via Zoom

Friday, April 3, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... of youth, caregivers, and families in the child welfare system . As follow up to our group’s March 27th meeting when ... of youth, caregivers, and families in the child welfare system Plans to support...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Children, Youth and Families

Disaster Relief

Health

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Freedom to Read: "Million Book Project" Brings Literature to 1,000 US Prisons

Release Date:

06/30/2020

... history, and social thought – across the prison system and creating opportunities for incarcerated people to ... a cruel and unjust reality of the American penal system . Disproportionately, people of color...

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William T. Grant Foundation Welcomes Two New Staff Members

Release Date:

01/11/2022

... will be to ensure that the grants management system meets the needs of the Foundation’s applicants, ...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Names Rafael Maldonado as Vice President and Chief Information Technology Officer

Release Date:

12/14/2021

n this role, Maldonado will be a key member of the Foundation’s leadership team.

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20 Sep 2023

Community Food Funders Annual Gathering 2023

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 -

5:00pm to 8:00pm

... and be inspired by those changing our regional food system . As part of the evening, we will hear from Columbia ... we all have a part to play in creating the just food system that everyone deserves. We...

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Food Systems

Happy Holidays: PNY's Year with You

Release Date:

12/15/2023

Explore a few highlights of what we've accomplished together this year!

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PNY News

21 Nov 2013

Education Funders Research Initiative - Building Better Schools

Thursday, November 21, 2013 -

7:45am to 11:00am

Ford Foundation

... re-center attention to how to move change throughout the system . Within the priority areas, which broad policies must ... — and with the anticipated impact — throughout the system ? Presenters Our panel will...

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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

Release Date:

04/15/2014

Surdna Foundation launched $18 million Program Related Investment (PRI) revolving fund to support its mission of fostering just and sustainable communities in the United States.

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Searching for the Next Breakthrough in Health Care

Release Date:

05/05/2014

... planet, it is equally well documented that our health care system , on many levels, doesn’t measure up on a global ...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

New York is building one of the nation’s largest computer databases of medical records

Release Date:

06/01/2014

... largest computer databases of medical records, a system that when finished will allow patients and doctors ...

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Health

Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

Release Date:

06/23/2014

... of Alaska, University of Arizona, Montana University System , and Purdue. The new national network, the Sloan ...

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Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

Release Date:

07/17/2014

Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.