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Science Studies Get a Big Boost

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03/10/2014

... technology, engineering and math, including initiatives from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Leona M. and ... to teach America’s students by the year 2016, thanks to a big push by large...

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20 May 2014

Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in New York

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 -

10:00am to 2:30pm

... in Health and Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families as they present Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in New York . This meeting will ... for hosting this event. Designed for Trustees and staff...

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Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science

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03/15/2014

... White House. Joking that his grades in physics made him a dubious candidate for “scientist in chief,” he spoke of ... leading role in a history of scientific glories, from putting a...

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The Citi Foundation Launches Pathways to Progress to Improve Career Readiness for 100,000 Youth

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03/31/2014

... The Citi Foundation today announced Pathways to Progress, a three-year $50 million initiative to unlock economic ... to Progress over the last year, working with input from leading nonprofit partners. The...

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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

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04/15/2014

... social value. The foundation also announced an investment from the Fund to support the growth of regional, sustainable, ...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley

Release Date:

04/16/2014

... on March 31, 2014. The institute, established in 2012 by a grant from the Simons Foundation, brings together leading ... 100 long-term visitors attending the Spring 2014 programs. As part of...

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

... the public sector, and served in the philanthropy sector as chief executive of the Case Foundation since creating the ... with my husband, Steve, in 1997. Having had the benefit of a perspective from...

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Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

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05/17/2014

... the recent release of Medicare’s physician payments cast a spotlight on the millions of dollars paid to some specialists, there is a startling secret behind America’s health care hierarchy: ... are currently...

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MacArthur and Master Card Foundations Invest $24 Million in Secondary Education

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05/06/2014

... Foundation and MasterCard Foundation shared insights from the funder collaborative launched in 2012 that seeks to ...

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Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A.

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04/15/2014

Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans a $50 million challenge to the N.R. A ., reports the New York Times. Michael R. Bloomberg, making ... of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N...

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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

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05/22/2014

... Building in East River Could Pay for Itself and Then Some A team of architects and consultants is proposing to build a ... towers and office buildings on landfill in the East River as part of...

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De Blasio unveils 30-member task force charged with overhauling NYC’s job-training and workforce-placement programs

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05/20/2014

On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a 30-member task force that will be charged with overhauling ... job-training and workforce-placement programs. Speaking from the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park,...

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Open Society Foundations Award Fellowships to 14 Visionaries Working to Reform Criminal Justice in the United States

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05/14/2014

... to the newest class of Soros Justice Fellows working on a range of criminal justice issues, from solitary confinement to DNA databases to police ... will spur debate, catalyze change, and lift the curtain on...

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CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high

Release Date:

05/30/2014

... announced Thursday. The confirmed case count for 2014, as of May 23, was 288 and growing, the CDC says. That number includes 138 cases from Ohio, where the biggest outbreak is ongoing – and where the actual...

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

... an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a past president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, was family ... United States Advisory Board of Doctors Without Borders from 1989 until 2010, and served...

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Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever

Release Date:

06/16/2014

... Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes Ecology, or SCOPE, a program of the Simons Foundation’s Division of Life ... control the movement and exchange of energy and nutrients, from the surface of the water to...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

... To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia A small number of companies, nonprofits and ... employing hundreds of thousands of people, BPOs have a role to play in shifting the social landscape in...

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New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens

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06/19/2014

... Botanical Garden's Humanities Institute, made possible by a $635,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, holds its first public ... is the first of its kind at a U.S. botanical...

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

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06/23/2014

... Math Studies Four universities will share $2.4 million from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a three-year, collaboration to increase the number of ... science, technology, engineering, and math – also known...

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Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation's New Strategy

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07/02/2014

... at the forefront of its work, is taking that commitment to a new level. Through Brooklyn Insights, the foundation has ... for change, and strategies for collective action. As noted on a...

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