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New York Life Foundation Awards $1 Million to American Museum of Natural History

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08/13/2014

... The American Museum of Natural History has received a four-year, $1 million grant from the New York Life Foundation to support science ... and evaluation tools. The earlier grant, awarded in...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Announce Second Batch of Resilient Cities

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12/02/2014

... to Announce Second Batch of Resilient Cities Selected from applicants spanning 94 countries, the latest batch of ... be unveiled by the non-profit 100 Resilient Cities project in Singapore on Wednesday. The...

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William T. Grant Foundation-Funded Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying

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05/01/2015

... Bullying New research suggests that the consequences from being bullied by peers may have a greater impact on mental health in adulthood than originally thought. What’s more, the ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

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A New Lens for Disaster Recovery

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09/16/2015

A New Lens for Disaster Recovery Natural disasters ... devastate communities and leave their deepest wounds in already unstable low-income neighborhoods. Physical ... storm hits. Amongst the rubble and disrepair,...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds

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04/28/2016

... Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds A $420 million Ford Foundation program that funded the advanced education of social justice leaders from marginalized groups led to significant positive...

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Simons Foundation Contributes to Research Outlining Cellular Communication Processes

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08/30/2016

... Communication Processes Researchers have discovered a mechanism of intercellular communication that helps explain how biological systems and actions – ranging from a beating heart to the...

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Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth

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09/23/2016

... Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth As more Latinos enroll in college, the number of Latinos going into the professoriate is not keeping pace, according to a recent Excelencia in Education...

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Ms. Foundation for Women President Attends White House’s First South by South Lawn

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10/05/2016

... House’s first South by South Lawn started off with a long line of interesting people. I was with a group of amazing women from both coasts, including West Coast folks like Leanne ... go...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Zimmerli Art Museum's Examination of American Art Circa 1966

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10/06/2016

... key works created around the time of its founding. But in addition to spotlighting revolutionary movements that now have an established presence in art history, the subjects of many of the works focus on...

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The MasterCard Foundation Supports $828 Million in Private Scholarships for African Youth

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12/09/2016

The MasterCard Foundation Supports $828 Million in Private Scholarships for African Youth Irene Kinyanguli, a senior at Arizona State University, comes from Tanzania, where her father works...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Five Organizations Selected to Receive First Spark Prize

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01/10/2017

... only honor of its kind celebrating excellence and impact in Brooklyn’s thriving nonprofit sector. Each of the five ... recipients will get $100,000 in general operating support from Brooklyn...

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Furthering Conflict with George Soros, Hungary Tightens Rules on Foreign-Funded NGOs

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06/13/2017

... for non-government organisations with foreign funding in a further escalation of the government 039 ;s conflict with ... Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros. Defying calls ...

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Open Society Foundations: Central Asia at History’s Crossroads

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07/17/2017

... The region is considered to be burdened by the weight of a history defined by subjugation from its Great Power neighbors abroad and repression from its ... on-the-ground progress being made...

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With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up

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08/28/2017

... Up While STEM giving is one of the hottest funding areas in higher ed philanthropy, most of the gifts we profile are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals— a new science building, teacher training,...

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Clarity Needed In Clean Labeling

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08/30/2017

Clarity Needed In Clean Labeling The “why” and “how” behind a product have become as important as the product itself, according to new research from the Nielsen Co. Nearly 4 in...

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

... not provocative to state the importance of innovation in creating business value from your sustainability efforts. But, this value won’t ... 50% of companies have changed their business models as a...

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Top White House Official to Discuss Climate Change at U.N.

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09/13/2017

... adviser, is convening senior climate and energy ministers from about a dozen nations in advance of next week’s United Nations General Assembly ...

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Republicans Are Reconsidering Full Repeal of State and Local Tax Deduction

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10/04/2017

... Local Tax Deduction Republican leaders are backing away from a proposal to fully repeal an expensive tax break used by ... elimination of the provision has emerged as a flash point in...

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Inspired or Frustrated, Women Go to Work for Themselves

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10/04/2017

... An ocean separates Chupi Sweetman-Durney, who lives in Dublin, and Lea Giovanniello of Vienna, Va., and they have ... Yet their workplace experiences and career paths — at a time when women still struggle with...

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