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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

... is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are obvious. Recently, however, a neurological ... in people’s brains in ways that increase feelings of happiness, even if the generous act is...

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books For all of Sunset Park’s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and ... in that neighborhood might just be the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Despite its...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United ... into...

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Science

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The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’s Hard.

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09/21/2017

... to find uninsured residents and persuade them to enroll. A new health care bill before the Senate would require every ... in the country to make a similar soup-to-nuts evaluation of how they’d like their...

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7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week

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09/25/2017

... from Global Goals Week No single story can encapsulate one of the most frenetic and wide-ranging weeks on the global ... its commitment to use digital payments, just as a minister of health announces ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm.

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09/26/2017

... block party or a family reunion. It was the recent opening of an exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the city’s ... showcase for African-American art. And at the center of the swirl — combining the...

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Arts

A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

... guarantee loans to farmers, including owners of CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations). Animal ... it’s what’s for dinner”). They take advantage of taxpayer-funded research at state universities. Prison...

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Food Systems

Giving Could Plunge $13 Billion Under Tax Plan, Nonprofit Leader Says

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09/28/2017

... leaders would preserve the charitable deduction under a new tax proposal made public Wednesday, a key battle line for ... their tax returns. That change could reduce the value of the charitable deduction as a...

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Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

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10/04/2017

... to tend to, he can’t find time?) After just nine months of controlling policy, he’s already gotten angry letters ... sense (the Food Safety and Inspection Service) to a brand- new undersecretary post where it...

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Food Systems

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

... Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding A coalition of nonprofit leaders and community activists have launched a recall campaign against the new mayor of Fitchburg, Wisconsin, a suburb...

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Johnson & Johnson Brings Better Sanitation to Homes in India

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10/06/2017

... will introduce sanitation facilities to improve the health of families with young children. For many children in India, ... people practice open defecation, even a single episode of moderate to severe diarrhea...

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MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being

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10/06/2017

... services providers to custom design, test, and launch new features and products that aim to increase financial ... impeding that behavior, and then amplifying the benefits of that behavior. "MetLife...

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Economic Security

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Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs

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10/06/2017

... at Boys and Girls Clubs The study explores the efforts of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), a federation of more than 4,000 clubhouses ... Three years later, researchers found that...

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No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?

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10/06/2017

... states might use it as a launching pad to use measures of students’ social and emotional competencies to determine ... for judging school performance—calls for inclusion of such measures in its school...

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Education

Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

... locate 10 labs where they can serve a diverse population of school-age children, rural communities that otherwise ... hands-on STEM-styled experiments, encouraging them to try new things — and try them over...

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In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... They continued rehearsals, built sets, and found a new venue for the September 15 premiere of Describe the Night, a political saga set in Russia that ... the theater, the play opened on schedule at a...

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Aetna Foundation Pledges Funding To 25 Community-Based Nonprofits To Promote Active Living and Increase Access To Healthy Foods

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11/13/2017

... Active Living and Increase Access To Healthy Foods With a new round of grants, the philanthropic arm of Aetna is getting out of doctors’ offices and into the ...

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The Center for Court Innovation

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TED Talk: Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect

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11/14/2017

... Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect In a new TED Talk, Judge Victoria Pratt draws on her experience ... Newark Community Solutions to explain the real-life impact of procedural justice. “It’s a...

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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

... first memorial dedicated to lynching victims and a new museum dedicated to slavery on April 26 in Montgomery. ... have interactive content that confronts visitors with some of the nation's arduous past...

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