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Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities

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02/04/2016

... Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities The University of Pennsylvania has announced a $5.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of efforts to increase the number...

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Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps

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02/22/2016

Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps Fewer than half of the more than 1,000 healthcare related-apps reviewed by ... Commonwealth Fund. The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation...

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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

... claim, is working. A 2015 working paper by University of Chicago Prof. Jeffrey Grogger found that Mexico's soda ... found between a 6- and 12-percent reduction in purchases of sugary drinks after the law...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

... When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch Providence's high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city's youngest children, he...

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Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping

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03/29/2016

... address rising sea levels. In partnership with the City of Norfolk's Resilience Office and 100 Resilient Cities (100RC), pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation , Sandia analyzed the risk to important...

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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

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04/12/2016

... news: The New York Community Trust, the city’s community foundation , has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising projects—from reforming the bail system to ... the city. The Trust is also...

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Doris Duke Funds Lincoln Center Theater's OSLO Cast

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04/21/2016

... Production Initiative grant from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation . A darkly comic epic, Oslo tells the true, but until now, untold story of how one young couple, Norwegian diplomat Mona Juul (to be ... top...

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Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

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04/25/2016

... Climate Accord Approved at U.N. The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), under the United Nations Framework ... 2° C above pre-industrial levels. The formal adoption of the agreement on Friday, April 22 by the...

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Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast

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05/09/2016

... Fight Food Waste With Feast On Tuesday May 10, thousands of New Yorkers will feast on food that would have ordinarily ... in a landfill. Together with Feedback, The Rockefeller Foundation , City Harvest, NRDC,...

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Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors

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05/11/2016

... New York Press Club has recognized City Limits' coverage of housing issues and its investigation into the use of forced medication at a city hospital. A team ... by the New York Community Trust, the...

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... Social Workers The New York Community Trust (NYCT), one of the nation’s largest community foundations, has renewed a grant through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social...

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Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services

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05/24/2016

... whether supportive housing could change the trajectory of families facing a number of destabilizing factors that can lead to homelessness, open ... known as “Partnerships to Demonstrate the Effectiveness...

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Carnegie Sponsors Search for Nation's Favorite Librarians for 2016 I Love My Librarian Award

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06/17/2016

... Librarian Award. The award recognizes the public service of exceptional public, school, college, community college or ... York City on Nov. 30, 2016, hosted by the philanthropic foundation and award sponsor,...

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Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships

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07/08/2016

... "Are Not a Privilege." The op-ed was by Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation , and it discussed what he called "America’s ... unpaid internships, because I am, improbably, a member of...

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

... in Pivot From Oil The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the foundation divesting from the fossil-fuel industry it helped ... New York City-based fund, founded in 1940 with the profits of Standard Oil Co., provided $...

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End the Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... on the sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline: The proportion of girls – especially girls of color – in the juvenile justice system is increasing. ... with the support of Philanthropy New York...

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... an investigation designed to look into different kinds of microbes collected from the surfaces of the space station including the air. Based on NASA's data, ... new research partnership between NASA and...

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Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum

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09/28/2016

Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum The ... Museum and The Textile Museum announces the appointment of Camille Ann Brewer as the museum’s first full-time ... five-and-a-...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

... Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to focus more on population ... violence-free neighborhoods. Three years after the launch of...

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