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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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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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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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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

... Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’ s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change The last two years have ... in conservation, climate modeling, and economists from a variety of global institutions...

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New Study Funded By The Peterson Center On Healthcare Reveals Healthcare Spending Rose By Nearly $1 Trillion Between 1996 and 2013

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11/13/2017

... The research, conducted by the University of Washington’ s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and ... (variety and complexity) of services. Important takeaways from the study include:...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky

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11/20/2017

... with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant will kickstart ... proud to be a core supporter of SDSS-V." Under Kollmeier' s leadership, the...

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New York Women's Foundation Joins Female-Led Investor Groups Targeting Weinstein Co. Acquisition

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11/21/2017

New York Women' s Foundation Joins Female-Led Investor Groups Targeting ... including Abigail Disney and the New York Women’ s Foundation, who are prepared to field a bid for some of ... is under pressure to...

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Mario Luis Small Joins Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees

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11/27/2017

... Charter School. He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology in 2001 from Harvard University. Mario Luis Small Joins Russell Sage ...

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Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers

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11/29/2017

... students Quill.org aims to help, the writing assistant’ s algorithms get smarter the more they practice. The nonprofit’ s Quill Connect tool, designed to improve students’ writing ... series of algorithms that...

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Wallace Foundation Commissioned Report Shows How ESSA Supports Social-Emotional Learning

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12/05/2017

... programs that fit ESSA requirements. The report comes from the RAND Corp.’ s evidence review of how ESSA supports social-emotional ... phrase ‘social and emotional learning,’ but there’ s a...

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New Research Supported By Simons Foundation Points to Cellular Roots of Autism

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12/05/2017

... genetic model of autism, using neurons created in the lab from patients’ own skin cells. Their experiments suggest ...

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Open Society Foundations Seek Clarification on Pakistan NGO Ruling

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12/14/2017

... national foundation in Pakistan is seeking clarification from the government, after the Ministry of the Interior ... $3m of emergency relief aid for victims of that year’ s devastating earthquake. The...

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Report Shows Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States

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12/14/2017

... the first three years following the Affordable Care Act’ s major health coverage expansions, according to a new ... scorecard assessing access to health care. New Mexico’ s rate dropped the most between 2013...

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SeaChange Capital Partners to Help Facilitate Merger of Chicago Non-Profits

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12/18/2017

... business that requires a defined set of conditions from both organizations to ensure success. Two Chicago-based ...

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Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry

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12/18/2017

... The News Industry Women will lead the news industry’ s revolution. This will be a year of reckoning, the year a ... are at the agitation of women and men who demand better from our colleagues. When the dust...

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The New York Community Trust Awards $600K Grant for NYC Creative Aging Initiative

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01/05/2018

... Arts, Inc. announced today the receipt of a $600,000 grant from The New York Community Trust (NYCT) in support of a ... Hunter College, efforts will focus on SU-CASA, the city’ s community arts engagement...

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Report Funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Finds That California Traffic Fines Prey on Poor

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01/08/2018

... in crippling debt for the least fortunate Californians, from whom traffic courts have difficulty collecting any fees ... for a ticket. That can be followed by a suspended driver’ s license or jail time, even...

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