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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $1.3 Million in Support of Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Theatre Fields

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10/09/2013

... and are designed to strengthen the national infrastructure of the professional nonprofit dance, jazz, presenting and ... artists across the country. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in New York City has...

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Arts

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New York City’s Community Foundation Announces $6.5 Million in Grants to 81 Nonprofits

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10/16/2013

New York City’s Community Foundation awards $6.5 Million in grants to 81 New York ... helps Bard professors teach imprisoned women; gives dozens of young artists a career boost; builds the Rockaways back ... Girls...

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Biological Clocks Orchestrate Behavioral Rhythms by Sending Signals Downstream, Scientists Find (Revson Foundation)

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03/01/2016

... by Sending Signals Downstream, Scientists Find (Revson Foundation ) Different groups of neurons program biological clocks to orchestrate our ... messages in a unidirectional manner downstream, a team of...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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Citi Foundation and Americas Promise Alliance Announce the Launch of the 2016 Youth Opportunity Fund

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04/06/2016

Citi Foundation and Americas Promise Alliance Announce the Launch of the 2016 Youth Opportunity Fund The Fund, first launched ... will award one-year grants up to $250,000 to a new group of...

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Backed By Long Island Community Foundation, Town Hall Meetings Identify Issues Facing Trans Community

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06/07/2016

Backed By Long Island Community Foundation , Town Hall Meetings Identify Issues Facing Trans ... resident said she lived in fear and hid in shame for much of her life. But those feelings, she said, diminished as...

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Helps 104 Graduate from NJ SEEDS Scholars and Young Scholars Program

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08/12/2016

Heckscher Foundation for Children Helps 104 Graduate from NJ SEEDS ... low-income students, celebrated the accomplishments of 104 students completing its Scholars and Young Scholars Programs. Ninety-nine percent...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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With Support from Stavros Niarchos Foundation, 'Van Gogh at School' Launches Online Teaching Materials

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08/16/2016

With Support from Stavros Niarchos Foundation , 'Van Gogh at School' Launches Online Teaching ... lessons directly on a digiboard, or use elements of the available resources to create their own lessons...

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Supported by Simons Foundation, Super-Resolution Microscope Builds 3-D Images By Mapping Negative Space

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09/06/2016

Supported by Simons Foundation , Super-Resolution Microscope Builds 3-D Images By Mapping Negative Space Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a method for making three-dimensional...

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Diversity in New York City’s Universal Pre-K Classrooms

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09/20/2016

Century Foundation Releases Report on Diversity in New York City’s ... is this unprecedented experiment reflecting the diversity of the city it serves? A new report, Diversity in New York ... policy changes could...

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New York Foundation Releases New Report Showcasing Strategies and Case Examples by Grantees

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10/31/2016

New York Foundation Releases New Report Showcasing Strategies and Case ... Service organizations are meeting the immediate needs of their constituents and provide essential supports. At the same time, many...

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Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Forest Restoration Gets a Tiny Fraction of the Money it Needs

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11/09/2016

Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , Forest Restoration Gets a Tiny Fraction of the Money it Needs Research shows that only 13 percent to 17 percent of the total annual funding...

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New York Women’s Foundation President Says Trans Women Need More Than Victim Remembrance

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11/21/2016

New York Women’s Foundation President Says Trans Women Need More Than Victim ... this term, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue of bathroom rights for transgender people. The heated ... presidential...

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Simons Foundation Launches Flatiron Institute to Explore Galaxy Formation, Genomics, Neuroscience and Other Fields

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11/23/2016

Simons Foundation Launches Flatiron Institute to Explore Galaxy ... Neuroscience and Other Fields Each year thousands of genomes are sequenced, millions of neuronal activity traces are recorded,...

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Simons Foundation Supports Study That Finds Bacteria Can Survive In Oxygen-Free Marine Environments

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12/19/2016

Simons Foundation Supports Study That Finds Bacteria Can Survive In ... species don’t survive in low oxygen except some hardiest of organisms. Recently, some MIT oceanographers have ... who can survive even in low...

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Long Island Community Foundation Provides At-Risk Seniors With Fresh Produce And Nutrition Education

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01/25/2017

Long Island Community Foundation Provides At-Risk Seniors With Fresh Produce And ... Garden Senior Initiative aims to identify seniors 60 years of age or older who are at high nutritional risk and provide ... and...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Food Systems

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes School Choice for Inner-City Students

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02/10/2017

William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes ... policies attempt to improve the educational outcomes of poor and minority students by allowing access to high ... educational...

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Simons Foundation Supports Brain Scans That Identify If Baby Sibling Also Has Autism

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02/16/2017

Simons Foundation Supports Brain Scans That Identify If Baby Sibling ... using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of infants who have older siblings with autism, scientists were able to correctly...

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William T. Grant and Sloan Foundations Support Study That Finds Good Sleep Promotes Postive Experiences, Less Conflict

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02/17/2017

... Experiences, Less Conflict Researchers in the Department of Biobehavioral Health (BBH) at Penn State found that sleep ...

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Century Foundation Report Finds Out Why High-Risk Insurance Pools Still Won't Work

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03/01/2017

Century Foundation Report Finds Out Why High-Risk Insurance Pools ... on eligibility, and gaps in coverage... Century Foundation Report Finds Out Why High-Risk Insurance Pools ...

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