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Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

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07/14/2015

Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban An upstate New York energy company has filed an application to drill a ... Partners filed an application for a natural-gas well with New York state regulators last week...

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Century Foundation Explores the 'Double Burden' of Poverty

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08/12/2015

... is stark in most major metropolitan areas, according to new data analyzed by Rutgers University's Paul Jargowsky in a new report for the Century Foundation.... Century .....

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Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow

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10/07/2015

Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow Legal scholar and author Michelle Alexander joins Ford as a senior fellow, contributing to the foundation’s work ... over the past two decades. Her best-...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

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11/17/2015

... on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study dementia. The new organization, the Global Brain Health Institute, will be ...

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Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

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03/03/2016

... process. Developers from all over the globe are hunting New York City, looking for deals that will allow them to ... by the Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The New York Community Trust, and the...

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Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper

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03/18/2016

... to distance itself from Cape Wind continued this week as the University of Delaware released a report showing offshore wind energy in New England would be far less costly under projects that are ... in...

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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

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03/30/2016

... million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new institute focused solely on the therapy and accelerated ... Bloomberg, the businessman, philanthropist and former New York mayor, has agreed to donate...

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Newly-Named Soros Fellows for 2016 Include Six Indian Americans

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04/14/2016

... The 18th annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans were announced April 12 and included six Indian ... the 30 recipients. The graduate school Fellowship for New Americans — for immigrants and...

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Ford Foundation"s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy

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05/12/2016

... Investing on Philanthropy Impact investing can lead to new strategies for entrepreneurs and mission-driven ... of impact investing is providing a reason to look inward as much as it is to...

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Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged

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06/28/2016

... Sage Foundation. Jones-Correa and McCann used a new survey, the Latino Immigrant National Election ... analysis from other leading scholars, are contained the new edition of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation...

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NYCT, Jonas Center, John A. Hartford and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Highlighted in Health Affairs

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07/20/2016

... the need to care for people with chronic conditions, such as arthritis and obesity, and educate them about their ... and the increased number of people with health insurance, as a result of the Affordable Care...

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

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09/12/2016

... priorities, and the physical accessibility of its New York headquarters. The foundation does not plan to start a new program on disabilities, wrote Darren Walker, president ...

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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

... to for-profit trade schools after high school, seeing them as the quickest route to jobs. A new study finds the streamlined, focused curriculum that ... is also the reason many poor students drop out, however...

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Carnegie Corporation Seeks Ideas to Reduce Nuclear Risks

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09/23/2016

... Ideas to Reduce Nuclear Risks The Carnegie Corporation of New York, in partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. ... governance, and culture; outline a research agenda, as well as a plan...

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Supported by Verizon Foundation, Three High School Students Graduate from 'Girls Who Code' Program at NJIT

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09/27/2016

... "Girls Who Code" summer Immersion program offered at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Makhdoom, Bryant, ... and Cohen were among 40 young women from throughout New Jersey who...

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Design High Schools for the 21st Century

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10/12/2016

... and Saskia Levy Thompson, Carnegie Corporation of New York This article was first published on The Hechinger ... described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new...

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Ford-Supported Survey Finds Black, Hispanic Youth Less Likely To Get Money From Parents

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10/06/2016

... smaller expenses, than do whites or Asians, according to a new GenForward poll. And more than half of millennials ... the poll released this week. This information comes from a new GenForward survey of young...

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Supported by Ford Foundation, GenForward Poll Shows Clinton’s Edge With Young People Crosses Racial Lines

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10/25/2016

... former secretary of state will help people like them, a new GenForward poll shows. Clinton’s largest advantage is ... how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of a new generation... Supported by Ford...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to Mayo Performing Arts Center 2016-2017 Season

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11/03/2016

... the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2016-2017 season is made possible, in part, ... a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Supports Report on Disconnect Between Docs and Patients On Advance Planning

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12/08/2016

... generally failed to do so effectively, according to a new report from a trio of healthcare foundations. Both ... online focus group described these starter conversations as "brief and transactional"...

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