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Seven Bridges Brings The Simons Foundation’s Genome Diversity Project Dataset to the Cloud

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04/12/2017

Seven Bridges Brings The Simons Foundation’ s Genome Diversity Project Dataset to the Cloud Seven ... genetic variation ever collected, including whole genomes from 300 individuals representing 142 diverse...

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Science

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Two Weeks Left to Apply to The J.M.K. Innovation Prize

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04/14/2017

... Innovation Prize is April 28th, 2017 -- just two weeks from today. The Prize is an exciting initiative of The J.M. ... ten Prizes will be awarded to those tackling our country' s most pressing needs...

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Calls for Nominations for 2018 Casey Excellence for Children Awards

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06/08/2017

... a copy of a video about their work and a framed photo from the event. They will also be featured in a press ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund

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06/12/2017

... emerita — will start with $100 million of the proceeds from the Lichtenstein (which was sold to the collector Steven ...

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Justice Reform

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NY Women’s Foundation: $2.4 Million in Grants to Address Needs of Women & Families in New York City

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07/24/2017

NY Women’ s Foundation: $2.4 Million in Grants to Address Needs of Women & Families in New York City The New York Women’ s Foundation (The Foundation) announced a total of $2,400,000 ... and social wellbeing...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

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Doris Duke Foundation Awards 17 Physician Scientists DDCF’s 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

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07/27/2017

Doris Duke Foundation Awards 17 Physician Scientists DDCF’ s 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards The Doris Duke ... Awards of $495,000 each over three years. Selected from a highly competitive pool of 196...

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NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars

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08/14/2017

... a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars Following last month’ s contentious congressional debate over repealing the ... is the pending reauthorization of the State Children’ s Health Insurance program (SCHIP), which...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Mayor de Blasio Signs Sweeping Legislation to Curb Smoking, Tobacco Usage

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08/29/2017

... 2020. While smoking rates in New York City have declined from 21.5 percent in 2002 to 14.3 percent in 2015, the city ...

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In the Eye of the Storm: How Federal Funding Rescues Arts and Culture in Times of Disaster

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09/07/2017

... Western Louisiana, surpassing records for total rainfall from a single hurricane in the continental US, and displacing thousands of families. It’ s too soon to tell exactly how much damage the storm has caused...

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Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector

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09/08/2017

... tradeoffs leaders wrestle with every day. 2016 research from Bridgespan sought to understand: what really are the ... nonprofit organizations as if they are all the same? It’ s time, as a nonprofit sector, to...

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Down to the Wire: Indecision on ACA Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Creates Confusion for States

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09/08/2017

... Confusion for States Among the Trump administration’ s first promises was to give states more flexibility and ... This projection is consistent with similar estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation and...

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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... intelligence technology– trained by some of the nation’ s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states – ... teaching strategies, and videos -- all powered by...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults

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09/15/2017

... Their study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, compared data from a national survey taken in 2001 and 2002 and again in ...

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Iceberg That Broke Off Antarctica Was 4 Times the Size of Manhattan

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09/27/2017

... size of Manhattan broke off Antarctica on Saturday, the U. S . National Ice Center confirmed to CBS News. The iceberg ... is being tracked measured 71.5 square miles. It drifted from Pine Island Glacier -- one...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

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09/28/2017

... today on the published release of a tax reform framework from leaders in Congress and the administration: “A ... question is how tax reform will affect our nation’ s unsustainable fiscal outlook, and that...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Economic Security

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/29/2017

... refugees; approximately 1 in 4 persons of the country’ s 4.4 million is now a refugee. The result is a major ... and are still living on the margins, neither benefiting from nor contributing to the local...

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What' s Needed Now? It is well known that one of the keys to a ... and trying to strengthen existing ones. A new report from the Center for American...

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Ford Foundation Awards 25 Fellowships to US Artists Driving Social Change

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10/02/2017

... diversity of experiences and creative voices. Drawn from a wide range of artistic fields, the fellows span ... beautiful," said Elizabeth Alexander, the Ford Foundation' s director of Creativity and...

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Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country

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10/06/2017

... are some of the top reasons women enter the state' s criminal justice system. And, they're staying longer. ... Stephens County, a mostly rural area where Allen is from , had the third-highest rate of...

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