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Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

... International announced it would fund and help set up a new body called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The ... this new organization with a mission of reducing the harm from...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

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10/04/2017

... Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety For a guy who likes eating fast food because it’s “very ... of controlling policy, he’s already gotten angry letters from almost every influential watchdog...

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Food Systems

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding A coalition of nonprofit leaders and community activists have ... nonprofits that serve the less affluent sections of town in order to provide raises for city...

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Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... Immigrant Communities and Police Immigrant communities in general have a fear of police interactions, but this fear has been ... climate of crackdowns on immigration and increased raids from...

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Immigration

Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

... Agency to resume cleanup efforts of radioactive locations in Lewiston and Niagara Falls, warning they still pose a serious threat to public health. The EPA recently abandoned ... cleanup activities to clean up...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.

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10/10/2017

Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch. Here in the heart of the Adirondacks, the slender Schroon River, ... and white pine, is so narrow that you could easily hurl a polished rock from...

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As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

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10/18/2017

... Philanthropies recently gave another $64 million to a campaign that’s closing down coal plants in the United States, one telling headline came from the Courier-Journal in...

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Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

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11/02/2017

... By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing Want to wear your password on your sleeve? Computer scientists from the University of Washington can make it so. A research...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste

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11/14/2017

... American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, unveil results from a set of projects demonstrating innovative strategies aimed at reducing food...

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Food Systems

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Encourages Donors to Give Where They Live with $100,000 Match

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11/20/2017

... this holiday season with #BrooklynGives on Giving Tuesday, a 24-hour giving day that aims to raise hundreds of thousands ... Community Foundation, which is matching up to $100,000 in donations made that day to...

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... financier and philanthropist George Soros has denounced a Hungarian government campaign against him as "distortions ... enemy to distract citizens." The Open Society Foundations, in a...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... who has served as President since 2013. Alexander, a renowned writer, poet, and scholar, is recognized as one of the nation’s leading voices in modern literature and a bold visionary ...

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Anisa Kamadoli Costa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. Is A Vogue "2018 Game Changer"

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03/15/2018

... Costa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. Is A Vogue "2018 Game Changer" The philanthropist is also the ... Costa works across the iconic company’s partnerships in both for-profit and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Community Art to Keep NYC on the Cultural Edge

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03/27/2018

... NYC on the Cultural Edge Scheduled to open at Hudson Yards in New York City in the spring of 2019, the Shed received a $75 million gift from Michael Bloomberg...

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Arts

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William Randolph Hearst Foundations Provides Hefty Grant to SOPAC to Partner with School District

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04/26/2018

... District The South Orange Performing Arts Center received a $75,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundations to advance its ... program. The funds will be used both at the center and in...

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The United Hospital Fund Releases Report on Positive Impact of Home Health Care

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04/30/2018

... refuse home health care services when they are discharged from inpatient care. Such refusals can lead to higher rates of readmission to the hospital and a lower quality of life. Although information on this...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty

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05/07/2018

... and HBCU Visiting Faculty Duke University has landed a $3 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to grow its ... black colleges and universities. The grant will fund a five-year...

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Education

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... Best Health Care After the average life expectancy in the United States declined for the first time in decades, a new report is out detailing which states have the best and ... The study...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Grantee Develops New Crowd-Sourced Initiative in the Disability Field

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05/22/2018

... Foundation Grantee Develops New Crowd-Sourced Initiative in the Disability Field People with disabilities make up ... the images we see in the media. The images we see are far from real, and...

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