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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College

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01/29/2015

... Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College The class is a pilot course, part of an interdisciplinary food studies program that has been ... two years and will enroll students this fall for the first ...

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Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids

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08/29/2017

... pain to systemic issues such as fibromyalgia. By the time patients enroll, many have tried just about everything ... during their time at Mayo. Still, more than 80 percent of the patients who...

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09 Jan 2014

Generation Next - Young Donors Inspiring a New Generation of Philanthropists

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11:00am to 1:30pm

The dream of many family foundation donors is to instill a lifelong ... of philanthropy and giving back to future generations of one ’s family. In some cases,...

Laboratory Announces $50 Million Gift To Establish Simons Center for Quantitative Biology

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07/07/2014

... The Center will support research and education programs at one of the world’s leading independent biomedical research ... Marilyn Simons’ longtime support for scientific research is...

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Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline in Women in Workforce

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07/28/2014

Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline Of Women in Workforce As economists search for an ... to work has been declining, new evidence suggests that one way to stem the dip would to be mandate policies like .....

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William T. Grant Foundation Announces Scholars Finalists

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11/09/2014

... Applicants are nominated by their institutions and only one applicant can be named from any one major division (e.g., College of Arts and Sciences, medical school, etc.). Nominating ...

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Weinberg Foundation Matching Grant Initiaitive Raises More than $9 Million for Workforce Development

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08/20/2015

... Development The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, in ... for both the Jewish and nonJewish communities. Sixty- one...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region

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09/25/2015

... on track while you work step-by-step through a sequence of tasks, you aren’t far off. In new research, Brown ... report evidence that a particular part of the brain is responsible for exactly...

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JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices

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11/04/2015

... Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices To parents of picky eaters across the country, the idea that simply ... in the November issue of Health Affairs, customers at one restaurant chain...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Tech Companies Lead the Way on Paid Family Leave, and the Rest of the Country Should Catch Up - Century Foundation Study

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11/13/2015

... Companies Lead the Way on Paid Family Leave, and the Rest of the Country Should Catch Up - Century Foundation Study ... policies on paid paternity or paid sick leave, it is one of...

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Despite Legacy Connections, Rockefeller Family Fund Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments

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04/04/2016

... Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments One by one , the descendants of John D Rockefeller, the Gilded Age oil baron, are ...

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... in the Field Another Big STEM Diversity Give, This One Backed By Hedge Fund Wealth Diversifying the pool of STEM students and workers across the country is an especially hot funding area...

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... Criminalizing Our Students? It’s been said that a budget is a statement of policy, the surest way to determine the values and ... 2.2 million since 1982. As of 2013, 8 million Americans—...

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United Hospital Fund, NYSHealth Foundation Give $400K to Integrate Mental Health Care into Primary Care Practices

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03/02/2017

... and the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine have been awarded grants that they hope will lead ... conditions like anxiety and depression. The two grants, one for $188,320 from the...

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New York Health Foundation

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Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

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04/03/2017

... Summit in New York on April 3 and 4, celebrating ten years of a transformative program that has developed nearly 3,000 nonprofit and social purpose leaders. Fifty- one distinguished program alumni, from around...

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Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

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07/11/2017

Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign In honor of all that fathers do to help ... with autism, the study is...

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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

Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big ... predicted by theorists 43 years ago but never seen. “The one - of -a-kind particle physics experiment at...

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