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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria

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10/05/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria Two new strategies show promise in battling malaria, a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, .....

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NADA to Launch Acquisition Gift Fund for Pérez Art Museum Miami

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10/05/2017

... touches on its new permanent home, this season is a big one for the Miami museum world, and this December, an art fair has a plan to help an institution in the city build its collection. At...

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Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

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10/05/2017

... and Diane Ravitch. Please include e-mails both to and from Farina,” Edelman said, according to a Department of Education summary. In an email this week, the Post veteran told The 74 she ...

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A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

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10/06/2017

A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration? In addition to supporting artists in the many fields in which ... on a specific...

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Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

... Out to Rural K-12 Students Traveling south about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania Route 43, ... roll into Coal Center, home to Intermediate Unit 1, a regional education service agency...

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Total Health Costs of Industrial Food Systems Are “Staggering,” Says New Report

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10/10/2017

... Food Systems Are “Staggering,” Says New Report A new report by international experts draws significant ... conditions afflicting populations around the world,” from respiratory diseases to a...

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Six Useful Tips For Nonprofits To Keep Marketing Automation Personal

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10/13/2017

... marketing automation for at least two years, according to a report by Pardot, it only makes sense that this email ... also remove that personal touch that is so important to a nonprofit’s membership base...

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Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

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10/13/2017

... Projects The Rockaway Youth Task Force has a long waiting list of families who want spots in its community garden, but more of those aspiring ... its first community garden, right across the street ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Spark Prize Support 20 Local Nonprofits with $100,000 Match on Giving Tuesday

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10/17/2017

... campaign, which aims to drive awareness and donations to a diverse cohort of 20 local nonprofits. The Foundation will match up to $100,000 in donations to the 20 participating organizations on Giving ... year...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Discovers Smart Artificial Beta Cells Could Lead To New Diabetes Treatment

Release Date:

10/30/2017

... long required painful and frequent insulin injections or a mechanical insulin pump for insulin infusion. But researchers from the University of North Carolina and NC State have now ... and disposable skin...

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06 Mar 2018

Making Inclusion More Inclusive – Join This Interactive Session!

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

View the program resources here. As funders we talk a lot about inclusive philanthropy. But how often these days do we get to experience – from the grantee perspective – what inclusion looks and ... join us for...

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Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico

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11/16/2017

... pledged an initial $5 million to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria, including the creation of an advisory ... rebuild," said Miguel Soto-Class, founder and president of a local think tank,...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

Release Date:

11/28/2017

... or NAACP, and the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago -- and with a $300,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation -- the not-for-profit Impact ... ETF, with the ticker symbol "NACP," will invest in...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Exploration Into Labor and Civil Rights History at National Park Service

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11/28/2017

... Park Service The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides a nearly $1 million grant to the National Park Foundation to ... grant will fund one fellow to work under a leading expert in one of...

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‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism

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12/08/2017

... Carol Anderson said as she kicked off the first talk in Georgetown 039 ;s Mellon Lecture Series last week. The Mellon ... continue into the spring semester, is made possible by a $1.5...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

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12/11/2017

... How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have A survey, produced by the Commonwealth Fund, included more than 23,000 people from 11 developed countries, and revealed that American seniors were sicker...

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Jim Simons, the Numbers King

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12/13/2017

... King Jim and Marilyn Simons became major charitable donors in the nineteen-nineties, when they launched their foundation. They have funded a math center at Stony Brook, and a center for...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

Release Date:

12/15/2017

... has awarded the Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, a $750,000 grant, to fund a five-year project to build empathy in order to affect positive social change. MIA will launch ... of art made...

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