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Sloan Foundation-Supported Poll Finds Blacks Less Likely to Have Enough for Retirement

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05/18/2017

Sloan Foundation-Supported Poll Finds Blacks Less Likely to Have Enough for Retirement Older white Americans are nearly twice as likely as African-Americans to say they've saved enough for retirement, a...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation

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05/23/2017

... that had been voluntarily adopted by some school districts to address rising segregation. Now, a Penn State researcher ... Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, the new generation of school...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions

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05/26/2017

... Consequences of Recessions The Great Recession, as a new collection of research papers from the Russell Sage ... Foundation shows, generated a great deal of sadness. In 2010, one year after the official end of...

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Economic Security

With Support from the Simons Foundation, Researchers Uncover Clues About How HIV Virus Mutates

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06/02/2017

... Researchers Uncover Clues About How HIV Virus Mutates A new study published in Cell Host Microbe led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson ... neutralizing antibodies are immune molecules that bind to...

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Science

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Casey Family Programs Publishes Report on How Positive Factors Change Child Trauma

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06/09/2017

... Trauma Casey Family Programs partners with think tanks to understand health outcomes that children and families experience in midst of trauma. By now, the link between adverse ... of children with many adverse...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Furthering Conflict with George Soros, Hungary Tightens Rules on Foreign-Funded NGOs

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06/13/2017

... NGOs Hungary's parliament approved on Tuesday strict new rules for non-government organisations with foreign funding in a further escalation of the government's conflict with ... calls from the...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations

Century Foundation: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Worth Saving

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06/15/2017

... Manufacturing Is Having a Moment,” declared CNN in a recent headline. During his reelection campaign, ... that had been lost after the recession, and supported bold new investments in the...

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Workforce Development

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Staten Island Foundation Supports Worker-Owned Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island

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06/20/2017

... together final details, before the official launch of two new businesses. “Exciting because we're going to be our own bosses we have our own business and we're going to run it the...

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Gender Justice

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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

... Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy The tool, which is publicly available ... year to a record $123 billion,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

... Prisoners of Time Despite the enactment of justice reforms in many states, the nation’s prison and jail population has ... been criticized by many on both the left and the right. A new report from the Urban...

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Justice Reform

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Rockefeller Survey Finds Male Attitudes Are Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business

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08/03/2017

... Finds Male Attitudes Are Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business When it comes to explaining why there are so few female CEOs, a lot of ... or interested females out there. But an intriguing new...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

... international expansion, is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in the face of industrywide revenue problems: philanthropy. ... a nonprofit venture in the United States, theguardian...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School

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08/31/2017

Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School A dispute over who ... next week. The dispute centered on who would become the new principal of the Onondaga Nation School, which sits on ... wanted a nation...

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After Blasting Success’s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School

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09/05/2017

After Blasting Success’s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School To ring in the new school year, Chancellor Betty Rosa picked a seemingly ...

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A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis

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09/11/2017

A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis The opioid crisis is so complex ... drug monitoring programs, an approach highlighted in the draft report from President Trump’s Commission on ... controlled substances...

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Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids

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09/12/2017

Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids Every so often, an idea comes along that is ... facility that promises to deal with the opioid crisis in a way that exists nowhere else in...

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Major Gifts Follow When Fundraisers Adhere to a Research Plan Consistently, Study Says

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09/12/2017

Major Gifts Follow When Fundraisers Adhere to a Research Plan Consistently, Study Says When seeking ... using a system erratically or not at all, according to a new survey. While that may seem...

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Patrick Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society Foundations

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09/13/2017

Patrick Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society ... a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa will become the new acting...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... return for its most recent fiscal year. The endowment’s 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...

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