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With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species

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02/28/2017

With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation , Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate...

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Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

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06/07/2017

... United Nations laid out its Sustainable Development Goals to track global progress against massive social and ... social good improvement committed $22.1 billion to 8,000 investments. All told, the emerging...

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Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders

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07/25/2017

Simons Foundation -Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders Just as parents are not the root of all their children’s problems, a single gene mutation ...

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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

Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big ... experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was the first to measure coherent scattering of...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education On Tuesday nights beginning August 22 ... Sreenivasan traveled throughout the United States to...

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Education

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Atlantic Philanthropies and Ford Foundation Funded Lynching Memorial and Slavery Museum Sets April Opening

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11/14/2017

Atlantic Philanthropies and Ford Foundation Funded Lynching Memorial and Slavery Museum Sets ... will open the nation’s first memorial dedicated to lynching victims and a new museum dedicated to...

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Social Justice

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Photojournalist Documents Moments From the San Quentin State Prison Marathon on Open Society Foundations' Weekly Instagram Takeover

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01/22/2018

... images she made as a set photographer for "26.2 to Life: The San Quentin Prison Marathon," a documentary ... about running and redemption inside and beyond the walls of California's oldest...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Grantee Develops New Crowd-Sourced Initiative in the Disability Field

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05/22/2018

Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Grantee Develops New Crowd-Sourced Initiative in ... Field People with disabilities make up about 20% of the population, but are featured in less than 2% ...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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Funded by The Charles H. Revson Foundation, New York Library Lends Out Ties, Briefcases, Handbags for Job Interviews

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09/24/2018

Funded by The Charles H. Revson Foundation , New York Library Lends Out Ties, Briefcases, ... and some even have telescopes and microscopes for patrons to check out. Several lend American Girl dolls, allowing kids...

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Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes

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11/07/2018

Simons Foundation -Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant ... Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes Sea creatures need to go to the bathroom, too, and in aquariums, that creates the task...

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With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge The Conservation ... is in place, according to Kyle Shenk, the state director...

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Booth Ferris Foundation, New York Community Trust and Others Support Apollo Theater Transformation

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12/10/2018

Booth Ferris Foundation , New York Community Trust and Others Support ... announced today that it is undertaking the initial phase of the iconic Theater’s transformation into the Apollo ... of the...

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Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers New, Solar-Powered Technology that Collects and Cleans Water from Air

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03/18/2019

Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers New, Solar-Powered Technology that Collects and Cleans Water from Air Access to clean water remains one of the biggest challenges facing...

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Championing Colombia’s LGBTI Movement: Latest Report from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

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02/18/2021

... LGBTI Movement: Latest Report from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Astraea is excited to share our newest report, The LGBTI Movement’s Spiral ... to Legal and Juridical Gains and...

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Philanthropy 101 - So You're Working For A Foundation... Power and Your New Community

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... 101? It is a five-part series that helps all staff new to philanthropy better understand the sector. This ... knowledge they need to understand and navigate the field of philanthropy, as they...

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Renowned Scholar and Author Carolyn Dinshaw Joins the Mellon Foundation as Senior Program Officer for Higher Learning

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02/10/2022

... Scholar and Author Carolyn Dinshaw Joins the Mellon Foundation as Senior Program Officer for Higher Learning (NEW ... The Mellon Foundation today announced the appointment of scholar and...

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The Whiting Foundation Announces New Grants for Public Humanities Projects Expanding Our Understanding of History and Culture

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05/25/2022

The Whiting Foundation Announces New Grants for Public Humanities Projects Expanding Our Understanding of History and Culture MAY 25, 2022. The public humanities ... and remake our world. When communities come...

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Is Bail Reform Causing an Increase in Crime? - New Research & Policy Report from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Releases

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01/20/2023

... Research & Policy Report from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Releases As jurisdictions throughout the U.S. consider reducing or eliminating the use of pretrial detention and cash bail,...

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