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Report Commissioned by NY Women's Foundation Provides In-Depth Exploration of Women in the Justice System

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03/08/2017

Report Commissioned by NY Women' s Foundation Provides In-Depth Exploration of Women in the ... grown exponentially in recent decades, by more than 700% from 1980 to 2014, as the rate of imprisonment for...

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Alliance for Charitable Reform Hosts Annual Summit for Leaders

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04/11/2017

... for Leaders Nonprofit leaders who attended got to hear from congressional staff, administration officials and other ... panel discussion on "A New IRS and the Tax-Exempt Sector" from the ACR Summit...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Addresses Technology Gap in Rural Healthcare

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04/28/2017

... at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center will soon benefit from access to the latest computed tomography (CT) diagnostic technology made possible through a grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley...

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Ford Foundation Hires Detroit Native, Kevin Ryan, as Program Officer for its New Detroit Office

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05/31/2017

... announced Wednesday it has hired Detroit native Kevin Ryan from the New York Foundation to be its new Detroit-based program officer. “[Ryan] will be working from Detroit and working with grantee partners there...

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NY State Health Foundation: An Actual Pathway to Better Health in Albany

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06/28/2017

... in Boston, New Orleans, and Albany. When I’m away from home, I enjoy getting outside and wandering around, ... a sense of the place. What features shape the city? What’ s the vibe? What are the neighborhoods...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy

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06/30/2017

Ford Foundation' s Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy American culture ... a combination of dogged work and stubborn will, rose from a mis-remembering of The Surprising Adventures of Baron .....

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Giving Back: 4 Ways Your Company Can Do Good

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08/31/2017

Giving Back: 4 Ways Your Company Can Do Good Today' s consumers, particularly millennials, are looking for more than just a product from the brands they support. They also want social ... of smaller...

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Ex-Googlers Stir Up Controversy With Bodega Pantry Concept

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09/18/2017

... 100,000 Bodegas spread out, with one always 100 feet away from you.” Needless to say, this has caught the attention ... but also the urban independent mom-and-pop retailers from which Bodega derives its name...

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

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10/02/2017

... Our Food System The food movement has a problem: It’ s right about what’ s wrong with our system, but wrong about ... a great idea; local agriculture brings a host of benefits, from delicious...

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Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way

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10/02/2017

... portfolio of low-cost, passively invested index funds from Vanguard, with 70 percent invested in stocks and the ... foundation averages. What that means is that as a group, U. S . foundations, which have a...

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Ms. Foundation Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Changes to Obama Era Contraceptive Rules

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10/11/2017

... statement in response to the Trump Administration’ s decision to roll back Obama Administration requirements for ... the LGBTQ community, and people with low incomes. “Far from providing ‘religious freedom,’...

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Simons Foundation Releases The Eternal Sky, Part 2: The Hunt for Inflation

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10/05/2017

... releases The Eternal Sky, Part 2: The Hunt for Inflation From an observatory perched high in the Chilean mountains, ... the Simons Observatory. The film traverses the globe, from the barren Atacama Desert in...

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New Report Supported By The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Addresses The Future Of Undergraduate Education

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12/01/2017

... institution, but only 60 percent earn a bachelor’ s degree, and far too many are saddled with student loans ... as quality, affordability, and completion. With support from Carnegie Corporation of New York,...

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Michael J. Fox Foundation and Simons Foundation Making Waves in Basic Science

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12/01/2017

... more than $700 million to understanding Parkinson’ s disease. Others, like the CZI, have much broader goals. But ... research will be “transformative.” This push comes from continued fiscal belt-tightening...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Named One of Nation’s Top Funders Addressing Aging America

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12/15/2017

John A. Hartford Foundation Named One of Nation’ s Top Funders Addressing Aging America Recent grants from the John A. Hartford Foundation are one of the few ... over 65 has ballooned to 49.2 million this year, up...

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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... step in the development of new pain medications. A release from the university notes that the research, published in ... severe pain but also trigger a wide range of side effects from nausea, numbness, and...

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

... neurons are active in both encoding and remembering, it’ s unknown what neural events control whether hippocampal ... experience into memory or recollecting information from memory. This dynamic is one of the...

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JPMorgan Chase & Co., Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway To Partner on U.S. Employee Healthcare

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01/30/2018

... Chase & Co., Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway To Partner on U. S . Employee Healthcare Health care costs are "a hungry ... employees at a lower cost. The new company will be "free from profit-making...

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OSF Report Finds That Women Are Vastly Outnumbered at Europe’s Top Policy Events

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03/08/2018

... Finds That Women Are Vastly Outnumbered at Europe’ s Top Policy Events Europe’ s top 23 policy events feature ... heads of state, business, and think tank leaders learn from each other’...

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Research Co-Sponsored by The JPB Foundation Examines Quality of Abortion Care

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03/16/2018

... research on safety and quality of abortion care in the U. S . While legal abortions in the U. S . are safe, the likelihood ... depending on where they live, says a new report from the National...

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