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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Research Makes Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

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05/07/2015

... at the Salk Institute have discovered a novel type of pluripotent stem cell–cells capable of developing into any type of tissue–whose identity is ... May 6, 2015 in Nature, the scientists...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative

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05/20/2015

Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative The ... today announced that Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Seattle will receive support...

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City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

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06/29/2015

... is not equipped to fill them. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that by 2020, there will be 1.4 million new computer science jobs, but only 400,000 computer science ...

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Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing Virtual Labor Organizing

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06/10/2015

... Virtual Labor Organizing Joining a labor union is one of the best financial decisions a worker can make to boost ... additional earnings over a lifetime—however the process of joining can be clunky,...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017 The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s ... these twin...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Are Too Many Seniors Taking Antidepressants?

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07/31/2015

... at more than twice the rate that younger adults do, a new study finds. The worry of previous decades—that America’s seniors weren’t ... medications,” says Maust, an assistant professor of...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces First Cities Selected to Join What Works Cities Initiative

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08/05/2015

... to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve the lives of residents. The mayors of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Jackson, ... City, Missouri; Louisville,...

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Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box'

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08/14/2015

... This week, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Daryl Atkinson of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice described his ... was arrested on drug charges and served a prison sentence of more than three years. As he...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Strives to Provide Free Psychiatric Evaluations to 10,000 NYC Kids

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08/21/2015

... five American children and adolescents -- or 17.1 million of the 74.5 million children under the age of 18, according to the U.S. census -- are affected by ... treatment. The Healthy Brain Network (HBN) is a...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

... make more money and learn to speak better English. But a new report found their well-being declines in the areas of health, crime and family patterns. Co-sponsored by the ... Services, the Sept. 21 report from...

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Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Creating Effective School Principals

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10/07/2015

... Report on Creating Effective School Principals A new report commissioned by the Wallace Foundation has ... schools. According to the report, it is the first study of its kind to examine how state policy could...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Reveals that Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse

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10/09/2015

... Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse A new global report shows that money doesn't buy everything ... on health care services, but they fared worst in terms of life expectancy, according to...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

... the same question and the answers will be very different. New research from The Rockefeller Foundation and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA

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10/26/2015

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA Want to know more about the Ford Foundation’s new focus on inequality? Have questions about how we’re ... answer questions in a...

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Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library

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10/26/2015

Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library The archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies, among the world’s largest ... causes and action, and set entire geographic regions on new...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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How Do You Build a Field? Lessons from Public Health - Rockefeller Foundation

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11/23/2015

... The world cheered as Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola earlier this month. An army of courageous physicians, nurses, technicians, and lay care ... organizations, families, and individuals was still...

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Deutsche Bank Supports Transgender Economic Empowerment Forum

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12/10/2015

... Empowerment Forum Transgender and gender non-conforming New Yorkers need access to jobs and job readiness programs ...

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Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth

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01/22/2016

Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive ... to help us deliver maximum impact.” Its support of iFoster, for example, a web platform that helps foster ... organized, shows how the...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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NBC News Profiles Asian Women Giving Circle at Ms. Foundation

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01/29/2016

... director for a Korean-American non-profit serving victims of domestic violence, she discovered how hard it was to raise ... for her cause. Korean-American immigrants, Lee found, were new to the idea of...

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