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Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case

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12/11/2015

... Action Case In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’ s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on ... the automatic admission of top-ranking students from all high schools across the state with the use...

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Josiah Macy Foundation Supports Project in Integrated Care for Psychologists & Doctors

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02/03/2016

... families and each other. "My role is different from that of anyone else I know in psychology," says ... who earned her clinical psychology doctorate from the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 2011...

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Joan Guzik Joins United Hospital Fund as Director, Quality Improvement of the Quality Institute

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01/19/2017

... Fund as director of quality improvement for the Fund’ s Quality Institute, effective January 3. She has extensive ... program development and planning. She holds an MBA from Boston University and a BS in...

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Rona Sheramy Appointed Executive Director of the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women

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03/01/2017

... effective February 15, 2017. Dr. Sheramy joins JFEW from the Association of Jewish Studies (AJS). In her capacity ... scholar and author, Rona graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan and...

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Carnegie Sponsors 9/11 Commemoration "Tribute in Light"

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09/07/2017

... times and have proven that nothing can break the city’ s spirit. Here are ten ways to commemorate 9/11 in New York ... Garage for the first time and then every year since from dusk to dawn on the anniversary...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Bank of America Announces Hurricane Irma Relief Efforts

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09/11/2017

... today announced that it is directing $1 million in funding from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to aid the ... the minimum amount eligible for matching lowered to $1 from the standard $25. To date,...

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Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times

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11/02/2017

... She ended up with “Happiness and Joe.” It’ s a rom-com. Ms. Bioh, a native New Yorker whose parents emigrated from Ghana in 1968, has made it her mission, theatrically and ... worker. So even though Ms. Bioh...

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New Menino Survey of Mayors, Supported By Citi and The Rockefeller Foundation Reveals Top Issues for Mayors

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01/23/2018

... Reveals Top Issues for Mayors Mayors nationwide, from cities large and small, agree that housing availability ... concerns and the top reasons why people are moving away from their cities. In addition, they...

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Annie E. Casey, Conrad N. Hilton, Ford and JPB Foundations Join FHO to Pledge $4.9 Million in New Affordable Housing Initiative

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02/20/2018

... charitable initiative wants to help address the nation’ s affordable housing crisis , leveraging funding from many of the nation’ s biggest foundations to help fill ... housing over three...

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Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser

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02/21/2018

... & Ubiquitous Technologies , a narrow, invisible beam from a laser emitter can deliver charge to a smartphone ... of a smartphone, which charges the smartphone using power from the laser. In addition, the...

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Annie E. Casey Foundation Funded Research Shows Close to Home is Worth Fighting For

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03/30/2018

... is Worth Fighting For Advocates are fighting to save C2H from budget cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would ... University Justice Lab, which has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Makes Water Purification Breakthrough

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04/03/2018

... to the United Nations, 30,000 people die each week from the consumption and use of unsanitary water. Although ... of these fatalities occur in developing nations, the U. S . is no stranger to unanticipated...

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Research Supported by The Helmsley Charitable Trust Grant Provides New Insight Into Neurological Disorders

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04/17/2018

... Disorders Many neurological disorders—Alzheimer’ s , schizophrenia, autism, even depression—have lagged ... change that with stem cell technology by taking skin cells from a patient and turning those cells into...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Michael Bloomberg Donates $4.5M to U.N.Climate Body After U.S. Cuts

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04/23/2018

... Bloomberg Donates $4.5M to U.N.Climate Body After U. S . Cuts Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ... also cut funding for the Bonn, Germany-based UNFCCC from $7.5 million in previous years to $3...

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Crain's New York Profiles Rockefeller Foundation President Rajiv Shah

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05/15/2018

Crain' s New York Profiles Rockefeller Foundation President Rajiv ... for the U. S . Agency for International Development from 2009 to 2015. He also founded private-equity firm ... of dollars...

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New York Community Trust Joins Redlich Horwitz Foundation and Tiger Foundation to Improve the Lives of Foster Children

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05/29/2018

... the Lives of Foster Children When children are removed from their parents due to safety concerns, New York City ... But this process does not always run smoothly. That’ s why a group of funders has come...

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Patrina Foundation Supports Adaptive Sports Foundation’s 2018 Warriors in Motion Program

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06/15/2018

Patrina Foundation Supports Adaptive Sports Foundation’ s 2018 Warriors in Motion Program The Adaptive Sports ... This extensive veteran program works with U. S . troops from all eras who’ve...

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Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Field Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments

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06/18/2018

... Microbial and Environmental Chemistry), funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in its Chemistry of ... health. The month-long project incorporates measurements from more than 15 research groups...

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Rockefeller Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announce Finalists in $10M Economic Opportunity Challenge

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09/17/2018

... today announced 20 finalists and 63 semi-finalists from across the country. Later this year, up to ten of the ... The other finalists will receive $5,000. Finalists range from organizations like the South...

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