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The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research

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05/17/2018

The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research By Betsy ... the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation More than 40 percent of young physicians with full-time faculty appointments at ... Foundation began...

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Darren Walker to Hamilton Graduates: Lead the Way Forward With Empathy, Courage, Compassion

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05/21/2018

... awarded an honorary degree, along with Nan Aron, founder of Alliance for Justice ; Hamilton life trustee John Rice ’78, former vice chairman of General Electric; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO...

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With Support From Bloomberg Philanthropies The 9/11 Memorial is Evolving to Honor Those Sickened

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05/31/2018

... Memorial is Evolving to Honor Those Sickened The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks persists more than 16 years later in the spate of life-threatening illnesses and the ... and relief efforts following the 9/11...

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App Developed at UVA Improving HIV Care, Finds Study Supported By The MAC AIDS Fund

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06/12/2018

... in doctor visits and improved their health outcomes, a new study has found. Users of the PositiveLinks intervention developed at the University of Virginia School of...

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Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Field Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments

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06/18/2018

... P. Sloan Foundation, Field Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments In the United States, as well as in most of the developed world, people reportedly spend about 90% of .....

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Research Funded By The Commonwealth Fund Shows Overdose Risk Quintuples With Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use

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06/22/2018

... With Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use In the first 90 days of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use, the risk of opioid-related overdose increases five-fold compared to ... opioid-only use among Medicare...

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Emmett Carson Steps Down as Silicon Valley Fund Admits Missteps

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06/28/2018

... Emmett Carson, who in recent years raised billions of charitable dollars from some of the world’s most powerful technology entrepreneurs, has ... the foundation as it conducts a nationwide search for a...

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Russell Sage Foundation Funded Research Connects Boosting Testosterone Levels To Men Preferring Luxury Goods

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07/05/2018

... Testosterone Levels To Men Preferring Luxury Goods New findings from the largest study of its kind, led by Gideon Nave, an assistant marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s...

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McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund Launches at the Aspen Institute

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07/10/2018

... The McNulty Foundation announced the inaugural recipients of the McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund, a new fund at the Aspen Institute to support innovative social ventures at vital inflection points. A total...

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06 Aug 2018

The Supreme Court Nominee and the 2018 Elections - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

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... on a first come, first served basis.* The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, and subsequent nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, have far-reaching implications that could ... Court nomination secured a...

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Ford Foundation Joins Funders To Launch The Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund

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08/13/2018

... Philanthropy Fund. The fund just released its first round of grants, totaling $14 million, which will go to advancing ... they serve. Studies show that fewer than 20 percent of nonprofit leaders are people...

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

... Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a ... The spaghetti challenge has flummoxed even the likes of famed physicist Richard Feynman ’...

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Open Society Foundations Appoints Kavita N. Ramdas as Director of the Women’s Rights Program

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08/16/2018

... Society Foundations Appoints Kavita N. Ramdas as Director of the Women’s Rights Program The Open Society ... Foundations are pleased to announce the appointment of Kavita N. Ramdas as director of...

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Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Announce Grants for US 2050 Initiative

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08/21/2018

... In the coming decades, a transformational wave of foreseeable demographic changes will create a new American tapestry. Social, economic, and technological ... will face increasing challenges resulting from a...

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Rockefeller Foundation To Invest $20M To Electrify Rural India

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08/21/2018

... for last-mile electrification, she said in an interview in New Delhi. The foundation has said previously it aims to ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust And The AHA Announce $6.5M Commitment To Expand And Enhance Stroke Care In Nebraska

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08/21/2018

... Stroke Association has announced a statewide commitment of $6.5 million for its Mission: Lifeline Stroke initiative ... and enhance stroke care in Nebraska. The foundation of this new...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Supports Play in Michigan Schools

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08/22/2018

... , the leading national nonprofit leveraging the power of play to transform children's social and emotional health, recently announced a multiyear grant of $4,590,371 from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr...

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Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change

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09/10/2018

... Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change Many of the world's future farmers will likely be farming oceans, ... its expansion as the fastest growing food sector...

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Salesforce.org Announces $18 Million in Grants Towards Bay Area Education, Homelessness and Cleanliness at Dreamforce 2018

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09/25/2018

... at Dreamforce 2018 Salesforce.org, the philanthropic arm of Salesforce (CRM), today announced $18 million in grants to ... and a $500,000 grant to the San Francisco Parks Alliance. New Grants Address San...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Welcomes Lavastian Glenn, Director, Racial and Economic Justice

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10/04/2018

... as its Director, Racial and Economic Justice. In her new role, she joins the Foundation’s leadership team ... to advance solutions to the two most challenging problems of our time – the climate crisis and...

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