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Ms. Foundation Returns to Martha’s Vineyard

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08/07/2017

The Ms. Foundation for Women, the country’s first women’s fund, returns to Martha’s Vineyard for its fourth annual summer celebration of feminism.

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Gender Justice

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Provides New Funding for Latinx Artists

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08/11/2017

... artists and arts organizations. In this capacity, Mellon joins a diverse cohort of catalytic benefactors supporting ...

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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Kicks Off Next Week, Supported by Capital One Bank, Doris Duke and Gilman Foundations

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08/17/2017

... late saxophonist, featuring storied veteran players as well as young jazz musicians who continue to shape and drive the ...

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Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement

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08/31/2017

... proves its value to supporters and detractors alike as it partners with local youth and community stakeholders to ...

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Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities

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09/05/2017

Immigrant youth like me are fighting to defend DACA at the national level. But we also need New York lawmakers to step up by passing the Liberty and DREAM Acts.

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Executive Director of the Staten Island Foundation to be Honored by City & State NY Media Company

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09/05/2017

... Dubovsky, executive director, Staten Island Foundation, as one of the most influential individals living or working in Staten Island. As City & State visits Staten Island for the last stop of its ...

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Congress Rejects Trump Proposals to Cut Health Research Funds

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09/12/2017

Congress has not only rejected the president’s N.I.H. proposal; lawmakers from both parties have joined forces to increase spending on biomedical research.

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain -- The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will...

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Nursing Home Evacuations Should Not Be “All or Nothing,” Says GSA Member in Senate Testimony

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09/21/2017

... of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and serves as director of the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging at ... our data indicate that exposure to natural disasters such as Hurricanes Harvey or...

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/28/2017

... the help of others. Meanwhile, a mother becomes tearful as she laments the fact that her children must work and have ...

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Assemblyman Peter Lopez Picked as New EPA Regional Administrator

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09/29/2017

Assemblyman Peter Lopez Picked as New EPA Regional Administrator ALBANY — State Assemblyman Peter Lopez will take over this weekend as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's top official in ... The...

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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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10/02/2017

Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC. After finishing ... decade, buoyed by offshore oil. . . Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC. ...

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ASPCA Launches New Social Media Campaign

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10/02/2017

... in the city. ASPCA hopes people share photos of Fido as well as dogs available for adoption at their local shelters with ... NYPD and FDNY plan to join in on the social media fun as well. “We...

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Disabled Parents Sue New York City Over Child Removals

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10/10/2017

... her eyes until she smiled. Then, she locked her long arms as if to make a swing and swayed the toddler back and forth. ...

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Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving

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10/10/2017

... tax incentive for charitable giving — to 5 percent, as compared to the current 33 percent. . . Opinion: Tax ...

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ArtNet News Details Joan Mitchell Foundation 2017 Grant Recipients

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11/15/2017

... Alaska. Of the 25 artists selected, 80 percent identify as non-white—a substantial increase from last year’s group, 56 percent of whom identified as non-white. The recipients also join an impressive list of ...

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Funded by the Carnegie Corporation and OSF, The New Americans Campaign Program Expands To Philadelphia

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03/20/2018

Philadelphia is the latest U.S. city to join in the New Americans Campaign (NAC), a multi-organizational collaborative network supporting eligible immigrants in the naturalization process in over 20 metropolitan areas across the country.

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Aetna Foundation’s Healthiest Communities Initiative Provides Insight into Social Determinants of Health

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03/26/2018

... in their health and wellness. The project also joins a field that includes the Robert Wood Johnson ... on the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program, as well as the foundation-backed...

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Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook Launch Coding for Employment Program

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06/07/2018

The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook have launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda which aims to put Africa’s youth on a path to prosperity

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