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Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations

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09/09/2016

... the myriad responses that animals, including humans, use to lower their temperature—from “automatic” ... physiological processes such as sweating and panting, to complex behaviors, such as moving to...

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Klingenstein Philanthropies

Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition

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01/10/2017

... Charles F. Feeney '56, has made a $7 million grant to The Cornell Tradition, a fellowship program offering ... distinctive service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the university's most...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Philanthropy 101: Re-Thinking Power Beyond the Grantmaking Role

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02/14/2017

... Philanthropy 101 series was designed for an audience new to the philanthropic sector. For the fifth module on power, the facilitators pushed participants to think beyond power in a grantmaking role. The...

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Laura Walker Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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03/28/2017

Laura Walker Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors Laura Walker, ... and CEO of New York Public Radio, has been elected to The Commonwealth Fund’s Board of Directors, effective ... York Public Radio’s...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair

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06/02/2017

... term that concluded May 31, 2017. "It is my privilege to serve the Weinberg Foundation in this new capacity," said ... Chair of the Board Robert T. Kelly, Jr. "Since my election to the Board of...

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Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting

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06/05/2017

... Enter The GroundTruth Project, a non-profit with a mission to support emerging journalists in pursuit of stories all ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Ford Foundation

Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders

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07/25/2017

Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders Just as ... blamed for complex brain disorders like autism, according to a Keck School of Medicine of USC...

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

... Physics Fingerprint After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, ... interact only weakly with matter. The research, performed at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron...

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

... big data initiatives and the efforts of market leaders to derive critical business insights faster. Less has been written about initiatives by some of these same firms to apply big data and analytics ...

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Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion

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08/21/2017

... resources and expertise from across its operations to address income inequality "through the lens of financial ... system — no bank accounts, no credit, no access to loans and other financial instruments...

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Economic Security

Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Unemployment’s Steady Fall Could Signal Trouble—or a Broader Structural Shift

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08/28/2017

... Broader Structural Shift The unemployment rate has fallen to a 16-year low of 4.3% and may not be done falling. The ... that is good news because it means the economy is still operating below capacity and has...

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks ... the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity each year; in 2016, $50 million went to organizations and...

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No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes

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08/29/2017

... bikes that would rent for as little as $1 and did not have to be picked up or returned to fixed locations. But before it could even start, the ... from city transportation officials. A news conference ...

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Community Development

The New York Times Is Looking for Nonprofit Funding. Will It Succeed Where Others Have Failed?

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09/05/2017

... Janet Elder, a respected newsroom executive and editor at the paper, would "build an operation" to seek philanthropic funding. The Times' move is predictable ... more than 2 million digital-only...

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Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

... in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion ... Citi Bike will also add seven “infill” stations to fill out thin parts of the bike-...

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Community Development

NYN Media Homeless Shelter Tracker

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09/11/2017

... With the number of New Yorkers lacking permanent housing at an all-time high, New York City Mayor de Blasio announced an ambitious effort to open 90 homeless shelters across the city. The effort, "Turning...

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Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches

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09/13/2017

... then Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent universities scrambling to win a competition for a new city-incubated research campus. During the run-up to the opening, officials have stressed the campus's capacity...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

... Pam Omidyar also have LLCs —and there are good reasons to look beyond the traditional foundation structure. The LLC ... much better vehicle for the kind of multi-faceted approach to big problems that Chan and...

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