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Hyde and Watson Foundation Supports New Green Roof at New Jersey School

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04/21/2017

... at New Jersey School Montclair Kimberley Academy (MKA) is a buzz with activities this spring involving their K through ... The Green Roof officially opened on Tuesday, April 18 in time to celebrate Earth Day...

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NYSHealth to Provide Funding For Free Health And Wellness Programming at Randall’s Island Park

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04/21/2017

... Island Park Alliance announced that it has been awarded a 175,000 dollar grant from the New York State Health Foundation to provide funding ... and wellness programming at Randall’s Island Park, with a...

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New York Health Foundation

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New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course

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04/27/2017

... no stranger to politics or philanthropy. He spent nearly a decade at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and served ... nonprofits working overseas. What may be just as important in his new role, however,...

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United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative

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04/28/2017

... and health systems encompassing 35 outpatient practices. In Stage I of the Outpatient Initiative, started in February ... 2016 with $310,000 in UHF funding, data was collected from...

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United Hospital Fund Honors 31 Health Care Trustees

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05/02/2017

... presented Distinguished Trustee Awards to 31 trustees from New York metropolitan area hospitals and health care organizations at a luncheon today at Cipriani 42nd Street. The honorees were ... as UHF—to ensure...

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W.T. Grant Funds Research on How Technology Use Affects At-Risk Youth

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05/03/2017

... Youth More use of technology is linked to later increases in attention, behavior and self-regulation problems for adolescents already at risk for mental health issues, a new study from Duke...

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Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

... Women for Afghan Women Before Afghanistan turned into a war zone in the late 1970s and then came under Taliban rule in the ... a third of the country—and women also facing...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Gender Justice

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"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

... of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies In most nations, having a billionaire financier and philanthropist would be a source ... billionaire and Holocaust survivor has spread...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center

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05/24/2017

... The ambitious new arts center known as the Shed, rising in Hudson Yards, has received $75 million from Michael R. Bloomberg, showing just how much the Far West Side continues to be shaped by a...

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Arts

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Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit Convenes Nation’s Leaders To Discuss “Rising Debt in a Changing Economy”

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05/24/2017

... Convenes Nation’s Leaders To Discuss “Rising Debt in a Changing Economy” Leading voices and policymakers from across the political spectrum gathered to discuss the ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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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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Workforce Development

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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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Gender Justice

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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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Environment and Climate Change

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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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Children, Youth and Families

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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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