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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

Research initiative to address urgent needs in understanding and treating low vision.

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Stonewall Foundation's Jarrett Lucas Loves Seeing LGBTQ Youth Publicly #ExpressLove

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06/21/2016

... For the past six years, Jarrett Lucas has been making his way, as he says, "up the non-profit stepping .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App

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06/29/2016

... a result, are providing more information in some places or making changes to displays in other locations... Bloomberg ...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Launched First Program to Accelerate Reforms in Education For Health Professionals

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06/30/2016

Rarely do we hear of funders bankrolling innovation of education and curricula for future nurses, doctors and other health workers.

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014

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07/20/2016

... Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014 It was hard to make money selling Obamacare health insurance in ...

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NY Community Trust Updates Grant Strategies for Behavioral Health and Special Needs Programs

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07/25/2016

... your taking time to have the conversation. Your feedback was critical in helping develop the strategies. These two ...

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Scientists Supported by Simons Foundation Determine How Birds Soar to Great Heights

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08/12/2016

... known as thermal soaring that requires complex decision- making within the turbulent environment of a rising column of ... environment to optimize their thermal soaring was unknown until a team of physicists...

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UJA-Federation Names New Chief Program Officer

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08/16/2016

... Rabbi Joselow will lead all UJA program strategy and grant- making , which totaled more than $140M in the last fiscal ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Papers Help Explain the Growing Wage Gap

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08/22/2016

A new essay from researchers Martha J. Bailey and Thomas A. DiPrete, which is part of a newly released collection of papers from the Russell Sage Foundation, helps to explain why women are no longer catching up to men when it comes to pay.

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Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures

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08/22/2016

Sara Collins, vice president for healthcare coverage and access at The Commonwealth Fund, said she believes the Obamacare markets are maturing rather than dying.

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Mellon Foundation Supports Festival That Will Show Sneak Preview of PBS "Hamilton" Documentary

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09/06/2016

... that delves into the life of Alexander Hamilton and the making of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer Prize and Tony .....

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Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities

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09/12/2016

... close look at Ford’s hiring practices, leadership, grant- making priorities, and the physical accessibility of its New ...

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William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans

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09/19/2016

A new study of 150 black youths from some of Baltimore’s lowest-income neighborhoods shows that young people who attended for-profit institutions ended up in more debt and with fewer job prospects.

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the selection of eighty-four faculty scholars, early-career scientists at forty-three institutions who have great potential to...

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Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated

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09/26/2016

The research marks a step forward in the quest to develop personalized brain stimulation as a treatment for disease.

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18 Nov 2016

Philanthropy 101 - Module 3: Fundamentals of Grantmaking

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8:30am to 11:00am

... be able to: Discuss where implicit bias plays a role in making a grant Identify examples of how foundations give ...

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United Way of New York City Helps Distribute More Than 100 Backpacks to Brownsville Students

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10/04/2016

On September 8, FedEx volunteers teamed up with United Way of New York City (UWNYC) to make this first day of school possible.

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Zegar Family Foundation Supports 'Sunday in the Park' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal at City Center

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10/04/2016

City Center thanks Gala Performance Underwriters Luigi Caiola and Sean McGill and is grateful for additional support from the Zegar Family Foundation.

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Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative

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10/13/2016

Universities to redesign programs in collaboration with their states and local school districts.

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