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Podcast: Mellon Foundation Remains a Bulwark for the Humanities

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04/10/2017

... to the liberal arts. Today, with funding for NEA and NEH in jeopardy, the Mellon Foundation’s website prominently ... article on why America needs the federal culture bodies. In this edition of the Business of...

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Supported by Sloan Foundation, Study Finds New Quantum Liquid Crystals May Play Role in Future of Computers

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04/21/2017

... Study Finds New Quantum Liquid Crystals May Play Role in Future of Computers Physicists at the Institute for ... crystal—a new state of matter that may have applications in ultrafast quantum computers of the...

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Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

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06/23/2017

... to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy The tool, which is publicly available ... legally impossible to enforce -- and boost confidence in a market where sales will surge 30 percent...

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Environment and Climate Change

USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals

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09/06/2017

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $12.6 million to support the training of 55 doctoral candidates and 52 postdoctoral scholars. Funding is made through NIFA’s Agriculture...

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Democrats Look To Trump On DREAM Act After He Puts Expiration Date On DACA Program

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09/11/2017

... Date On DACA Program President Trump appears to be in the mood to make deals with Democrats — and Democrats ... to pair hurricane relief aid to a short-term hike in the debt ceiling along with a measure to...

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The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs

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09/12/2017

The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs Pressed for workers, a New Jersey-based ... for a U.S. city with a surplus of talented employees stuck in dead-end jobs. Brian Brown, chief operating...

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Workforce Development

The Questionable Ethic of an Opt-Out for Recurring Donations: A Caution for Nonprofits

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09/15/2017

... Caution for Nonprofits Forget the fact that the nonprofit in question here is the Committee to Defend the President; ... donations has, according to BuzzFeed News, landed it in trouble with its donors, who are...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Northeast Needs Trump Commitment to Gateway Project

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09/15/2017

... Trump Commitment to Gateway Project After decades working in New York City real estate, Trump likely knows the two ... include a new train tunnel to replace one badly damaged in superstorm Sandy, repairs to...

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Community Development

Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September

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09/18/2017

... spending to states. The Congressional Budget Office is in the process of estimating the cost and coverage impact of ...

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Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... new chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was in the middle of a major revamping and that problems in the endowment would “require time to overcome.” That ...

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JCOPE Commissioners Again Rule Civil Liberties Group Must Disclose Donors

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09/21/2017

... could potentially lead to reprisals against people who fund the organization. The group has received a number of ... donors whose names are disclosed on the agency’s website in lobbying disclosures. . . JCOPE...

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Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum

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09/27/2017

... Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum In a rare example of high-level cultural philanthropy from ... Asian Art Museum here. It marks the largest financial gift in the history of the museum,...

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MTA May Cut Back On $836M Emergency Subway Repair Work If De Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up

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09/28/2017

... If De Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up The big subway fix may be in a bit of a fix. An ambitious MTA plan to rescue the subway ...

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Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

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09/28/2017

Archivists, librarians and TV news professionals will make the journey to Vanderbilt University next year to discuss the future of preserving broadcast television news.

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Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

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10/02/2017

... lunch plan isn’t kosher — and that’s left many in the city’s Jewish community bellyaching about a program ... city students. But Jewish advocates say 30,000 students in yeshivas aren’t getting the free meals...

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‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City

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10/02/2017

‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City They have prior criminal records but now aim ... and their tactics helped to drive down crime in East New York and the South Bronx, two neighborhoods analyzed...

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9 Million Kids Get Health Insurance Under CHIP. Congress Just Let It Expire.

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10/02/2017

... to restore the funding, the effects will become obvious in schools across the country, with many of the children in the program unable to see a doctor for routine checkups, ... of President Bill Clinton,...

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Children, Youth and Families

Collector’s Heirs Praise Deal to Recover Art Seized in WWII

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10/03/2017

Collector’s Heirs Praise Deal to Recover Art Seized in WWII The Geneva lawyer for the heirs of a Jewish woman ... art collection was seized by France’s pro-Nazi regime in World War II says they are “absolutely...

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Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash

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10/06/2017

... Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash Nonprofit lenders in the U.S. with a mission to make capital meet the needs of poor communities have a foothold in the bond market. There are $92 trillion in...

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New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"

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11/20/2017

... NYSHealth is supporting through its Healthy Neighborhoods Fund initiative to become healthier, more active places. Urban in density but rural in its disconnectedness from the rest of New York...

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