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Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

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07/17/2014

... Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of...

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Advisory Board Picked to Help Move Community Schools Plan Forward

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07/17/2014

... to Help Move Community Schools Plan Forward As part of his promise launch 100 community schools by ... the first 40 in partnership with the United Way of New York City--Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday...

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Education

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Michael Bloomberg to Return to Lead Bloomberg L.P.

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09/03/2014

... R. Bloomberg has decided to reassume the leadership of his business empire only eight months after ending his final term as mayor of New York. For years, Mr. Bloomberg had insisted that he ... — on issues like...

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Century Foundation Releases New Report on Labor Market Recovery

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11/06/2014

... report released today, TCF’s Mike Cassidy says that part of the problem may be that the unemployment rate is not actually a good measure of the health of the labor market...

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Data is Needed to Address Worldwide Women's Issues

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12/16/2014

... to Address Worldwide Women's Issues Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former New York City ... Mayor Michael Bloomberg teamed up to highlight the power of information in helping women...

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Foundations Should Push for Disclosure of Corporate ‘Welfare’ Deals

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12/18/2014

Foundations Should Push for Disclosure of Corporate ‘Welfare’ Deals For the first time ever, ... they lose to business tax breaks granted in the name of economic development. While many foundations and ... instead...

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Finance & Asset Management

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New Report Offers Framework to Analyze Effects of Potential Changes to the US Food System

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01/14/2015

New Report Offers Framework to Analyze Effects of Potential Changes to the US Food System To aid U.S. ... the nation's food system, a new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Food Systems

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To Frack or Not To Frack in New York: Observations from a Donor Briefing

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08/16/2012

... The New York Community Trust On July 19th, a group of funders met at Philanthropy New York and learned about the ... fracturing raises a number of environmental and public health concerns. To...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries. Part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the grant will support implementation of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) and the Tobacco...

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Ford Foundation Funded Study Examines Priorities for Latino Millennials

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03/27/2015

... and believe it should be widely accessible. A survey of adults ages 18 to 35 released Friday by the Public Religion Research Institute found 54 percent of Latino millennials said abortion should be illegal in...

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Johnson & Johnson Makes $30 Million Commitment to USAID to Fight Tuberculosis

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04/01/2015

... Johnson & Johnson have pledged to donate $30 million worth of the drug Sirturo (bedaquiline) to USAID over the next four ... program. Bedaquiline was among the first new classes of antibiotics approved by...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research

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04/10/2015

... be regained. However, Robert. W. Williams, PhD, chair of the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC),...

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Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta

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04/13/2015

Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta The Ford Foundation has ... challenges facing young women, which makes a lot of sense, especially in Nigeria. Women in that country now...

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Commonwealth Fund Blasts Digital Data Breaches

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04/15/2015

... Fund Blasts Digital Data Breaches Electronic health records were supposed to make life better for patients and doctors – getting rid of bulky and messy paper files, streamlining delivery of...

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Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research

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06/02/2015

... projects and game-changing discoveries to improve human health . We are grateful to have Bill and Karen Ackman and The ...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Mixed Views of PCPs Towards New Payment Models

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08/14/2015

Commonwealth Fund Finds Mixed Views of PCPs Towards New Payment Models On August 5, The ... issue brief, entitled “Primary Care Providers’ Views of Recent Trends in Health Care Delivery and...

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Public Policy

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Prudential Seeks New York's Top Youth Volunteers of 2016

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09/09/2015

Prudential Seeks New York's Top Youth Volunteers of 2016 Now through November 3, students in grades 5-12 are invited to apply for Prudential Spirit of Community Awards if they have made meaningful ... high...

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A New Lens for Disaster Recovery

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09/16/2015

... Physical destruction, displacement, homelessness, poor health , and economic instability further fracture communities ...

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

... a new report found their well-being declines in the areas of health , crime and family patterns. Co-sponsored by the ... Services, the Sept. 21 report from the National Academies of Sciences,...

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