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Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss

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05/24/2017

... support when family members go missing. When they remove a major food donor, like a mother or daughter, from a bat 039 ;s social network, females who...

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Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions

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05/26/2017

... Consequences of Recessions The Great Recession, as a new collection of research papers from the Russell Sage Foundation shows, generated a great deal of sadness. In 2010,...

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Edna McConnell Clark’s PropelNext Initiative Shows Promising Results

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06/12/2017

... also expanding services to reach more youth. Early results from the California 2018 cohort suggest a similar trajectory of development. In most instances, PropelNext’s emphasis on creating...

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Century Foundation: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Worth Saving

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06/15/2017

... fresh attention. “American Manufacturing Is Having a Moment,” declared CNN in a recent headline. During his reelection campaign, ... manufacturing sector sound economic policy, or as pundits...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Grants to Organizations Supporting and Defending LGBTQ Community

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06/23/2017

... will use the funds at their discretion to provide a variety of legal, advocacy, and social services to the ... address the skyrocketing demand for Center services at a time when for the LGBT community, the...

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Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

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06/23/2017

Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy The tool, which is publicly available ... air pollution. The services may help...

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Adam Falk Named Next President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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06/29/2017

... 2018. Falk is currently the President of Williams College in Williamstown, MA, a role he has held since April 2010. He is also a Professor ... the Faculty, and Professor of Physics. Falk...

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Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017

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07/06/2017

... Northwell School of Medicine, thanks to multiple donors. A legion of charitable groups has pumped some $85,000 into ... minority students to healthcare professions. Now in its eighth year, the MSPP has...

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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

... Prisoners of Time Despite the enactment of justice reforms in many states, the nation’s prison and jail population has ... been criticized by many on both the left and the right. A new report from...

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The Century Foundation on How Healthcare Repeal Would be a Disaster for Women’s Health

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07/28/2017

The Century Foundation on How Healthcare Repeal Would be a Disaster for Women’s Health The Century Foundation has ... entry to abortions and contraception — whilst deaths from complications of pregnancy and...

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Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup

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08/01/2017

... Startup The Rockefeller Foundation is helping to finance a startup hoping to build exchange-traded funds for nonprofit ... and direct the profits back to their causes, officials from the group said with...

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New Mellon Fellowship Program Explores Cultural Preservation through Long-Term Conservation of Navajo Textiles

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08/04/2017

... of Navajo Textiles The Heard Museum has been awarded a $300,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a fellowship ... The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Program — will provide...

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Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries

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08/18/2017

... Prison Museum, which is being developed, have announced a series of public programs called “Community ... Criminal Justice, Yesterday and Today” to be held in October. The Westchester Community Foundation (WCF...

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Trump Administration Considering Cuts to Cultural Exchange Visas

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... The Trump administration is considering major reductions in cultural exchange programs, including those for au pairs and summer workers, that allow young people from foreign countries to work in...

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

... Support Its Journalism The Guardian, three years removed from a Pulitzer Prize that helped spur the British newspaper’s ... expansion, is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in...

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Syria’s War Created Millions Of Refugees. Some Might Be Forced To Return Home.

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08/28/2017

... Return Home. As Syrian refugees begin to trickle back to a homeland still at war, aid agencies fear that a proposed ... during the six-year conflict, with most seeking safety in Turkey,...

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Opinion: Vacant Lots And Properties Could House New York City’s Homeless

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... since the Great Depression has New York City faced such a critical shortage in affordable housing. The city’s population of unsheltered ... don’t tell the story of the real New Yorkers suffering from...

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How to Build a Strong Local Food System

Release Date:

08/29/2017

How to Build a Strong Local Food System It goes beyond farmers 039 ; markets ... Communities fed themselves with whatever was produced in the region, with farmers selling directly to stores and...

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Tesla, Farmingdale State Announce Student Job Training Plan

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... to offer students training and career opportunities in the rapidly growing company. The public-private collaboration is the first between a four-year college in the state university system...

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Opinion: Harvey, the Storm That Humans Helped Cause

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... Storm That Humans Helped Cause Even before the devastation from Harvey, southeastern Texas was enduring a year unlike any before. The daily surface temperature of ... and when the air warms — which has also...

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