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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $1.3 Million in Support of Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Theatre Fields

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10/09/2013

The grants to nine national arts organizations were awarded through DDCF 039 ; s Fund for National Projects and are designed to strengthen ... artists across the country. The...

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Arts

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New York City’s Community Foundation Announces $6.5 Million in Grants to 81 Nonprofits

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10/16/2013

New York City’ s Community Foundation awards $6.5 Million in grants to 81 New York City nonprofits. October, 16, 2013, New York ...

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Community Development

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Biological Clocks Orchestrate Behavioral Rhythms by Sending Signals Downstream, Scientists Find (Revson Foundation)

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03/01/2016

... by Sending Signals Downstream, Scientists Find (Revson Foundation ) Different groups of neurons program biological clocks to orchestrate our behaviors by sending messages in a ...

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Citi Foundation and Americas Promise Alliance Announce the Launch of the 2016 Youth Opportunity Fund

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04/06/2016

Citi Foundation and Americas Promise Alliance Announce the Launch ... first launched in 2015, will award one-year grants up to $250,000 to a new group of grantees in 10 U...

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Backed By Long Island Community Foundation, Town Hall Meetings Identify Issues Facing Trans Community

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06/07/2016

Backed By Long Island Community Foundation , Town Hall Meetings Identify Issues Facing Trans Community The journey from transitioning from male to female was a struggle for Kelly Leigh Metzgar. The ... resident...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Helps 104 Graduate from NJ SEEDS Scholars and Young Scholars Program

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08/12/2016

Heckscher Foundation for Children Helps 104 Graduate from NJ SEEDS ... New Jersey SEEDS, a nonprofit providing education access to high-achieving, low-income students, celebrated the ... Young Scholars Programs...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Education

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Supported by Simons Foundation, Super-Resolution Microscope Builds 3-D Images By Mapping Negative Space

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09/06/2016

Supported by Simons Foundation , Super-Resolution Microscope Builds 3-D Images By Mapping Negative Space Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a method for making ... and provide...

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Diversity in New York City’s Universal Pre-K Classrooms

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09/20/2016

Century Foundation Releases Report on Diversity in New York City’ s Universal Pre-K Classrooms New York City 039 ; s universal pre-K ... Halley Potter says, some simple policy...

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New York Foundation Releases New Report Showcasing Strategies and Case Examples by Grantees

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10/31/2016

New York Foundation Releases New Report Showcasing Strategies and Case ... Service organizations are meeting the immediate needs of their constituents and provide essential supports. At the ... on their services,...

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Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Forest Restoration Gets a Tiny Fraction of the Money it Needs

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11/09/2016

Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , Forest Restoration Gets a Tiny Fraction of the Money it Needs Research shows that only 13 percent to 17 percent of the total...

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New York Women’s Foundation President Says Trans Women Need More Than Victim Remembrance

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11/21/2016

New York Women’ s Foundation President Says Trans Women Need More Than Victim ... America. And now the 2016 presidential election has served to compound the anxiety of the LGBTQ...

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Simons Foundation Launches Flatiron Institute to Explore Galaxy Formation, Genomics, Neuroscience and Other Fields

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11/23/2016

Simons Foundation Launches Flatiron Institute to Explore Galaxy Formation, Genomics, Neuroscience and Other Fields Each year thousands of genomes are sequenced, millions of...

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Simons Foundation Supports Study That Finds Bacteria Can Survive In Oxygen-Free Marine Environments

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12/19/2016

Simons Foundation Supports Study That Finds Bacteria Can Survive In ... species don’t survive in low oxygen except some hardiest of organisms. Recently, some MIT oceanographers have ... who can survive even in low...

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Long Island Community Foundation Provides At-Risk Seniors With Fresh Produce And Nutrition Education

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01/25/2017

Long Island Community Foundation Provides At-Risk Seniors With Fresh Produce And ... living below the federal poverty line have limited access to fresh food at a reasonable price. EAC Network’ s...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Food Systems

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes School Choice for Inner-City Students

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02/10/2017

William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes ... Inner-City Students High school choice policies attempt to improve the educational outcomes of poor and minority...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Simons Foundation Supports Brain Scans That Identify If Baby Sibling Also Has Autism

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02/16/2017

Simons Foundation Supports Brain Scans That Identify If Baby Sibling ... Also Has Autism By using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of infants who have older siblings with...

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William T. Grant and Sloan Foundations Support Study That Finds Good Sleep Promotes Postive Experiences, Less Conflict

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02/17/2017

... Experiences, Less Conflict Researchers in the Department of Biobehavioral Health (BBH) at Penn State found that sleep ... quality and quantity at night is affected by that day 039 ; s...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Ford, Warhol and Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition of Black Women Artists at Brooklyn Museum

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03/02/2017

Ford, Warhol and Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition of Black Women Artists at Brooklyn Museum Focusing on the ... of second-wave feminism. It is the first exhibition ...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Why Ford Foundation’s $1B Announcement Matters More Than You Think, and the Blind Spot of Two-Pocket Thinking

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04/07/2017

Why Ford Foundation ’ s $1B Announcement Matters More Than You Think, ... spheres. Two-pocket thinking is everywhere, it’ s easy to understand, and it’ s wrong...

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