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Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock

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Community Development

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Role of Older Workers in Small Business

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04/23/2015

... workers can most benefit the workforce. It’s important to our nation’s well being and the public’s health that older Americans have the opportunity to stay engaged, playing active roles – at work or in their...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Aging

Workforce Development

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Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

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05/18/2015

Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation The grant will be used to establish an integrated knowledge platform called IBD ... a professor of medicine and clinical epidemiology at...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Two Views on the Failure of Policing

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07/16/2015

... Failure of Policing Long before Eric Garner was choked to death by a police officer on Staten Island, or Michael ... departments in jurisdictions across the country, has begun to explore potential reforms. As...

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William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

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09/10/2015

... money and being concerned that they would not be able to afford to complete their degree.” The report is the first of a ... enrolled knowing there was an unmet need that would have to be paid...

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Economic Security

William T. Grant Foundation

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The Century Foundation Welcomes New Trustees Sonal Shah and Damon Silvers

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09/25/2015

... Damon Silvers TCF President Mark Zuckerman is pleased to announce Sonal Shah and Damon Silvers will be joining The ... in public service, social innovation, and economics to TCF. Sonal Shah is professor and...

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Community Development

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Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science

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10/16/2015

... in the Oct. 9 edition of Science. The study from University of Chicago psychologists Sian Beilock and Susan ... engaging math story problems for parents and children to solve together. Bedtime Math was founded...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Overdeck Family Foundation

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In Memoriam: James McConnell Clark of Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

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11/04/2015

... Foundation The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is sad to report that its Trustee Emeritus, James “Jim” ... its first board members. Jim graduated from Cornell University in 1944. He had a long and successful...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Simons Foundation Creates Center for Computational Astrophysics, Appoints David Spergel Director

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11/16/2015

... Spergel Director The Simons Foundation is delighted to announce the creation of the Center for Computational ... physics and large astronomical datasets. CCA plans to develop the computational tools needed for...

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Science

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Duke & Mellon Foundations Sponsor Provocative Dance Work on the Legacy of Confederate Symbolism

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11/19/2015

... of Wideman/Davis Dance and Assistant Professors in the University of South Carolina Dance Program, Ruptured Silence ... professors and dance makers, Wideman-Davis and Davis seek to illuminate and challenge the...

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Arts

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Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida

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12/10/2015

... prevent skin wounds and other complications, according to a pilot study of the interactive Mobitle Health & ... for use by young patients with spina bifida, according to the research by Brad E. Dicianno,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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International Genome Research Partnership Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation)

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02/03/2016

... Genome Research Partnership Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation) The very thought of them ... are endemic in every major city, and they’re very hard to get rid of. A massive...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Pershing Square Foundation-Supported Study: 5% Weight Loss Can Make A Difference for Obese People

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02/23/2016

... Losing as little as 5% of your body weight is enough to reap significant health benefits, according to a study published February 22 in Cell Metabolism. The ... loss," says senior study author Samuel...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Sloan-Supported Study Shows Whales Dine With Their Own Kind

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03/03/2016

... teems with billions of herring that take over the region to spawn. The seasonal arrival of the herring also attracts predators to the shallow banks, including many species of whales. Now researchers from MIT,...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Animal Welfare

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Artstor President James Shulman Joins Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow in Residence

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05/02/2016

... digital technologies can support institutional imperatives to be inclusive and effective. Shulman has served as the ... in the arts, architecture, and the humanities available to nearly 2,000 colleges,...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Welcomes New Trustees to its Board

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07/15/2016

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Welcomes New Trustees to its Board Four candidates were elected at the Fund’s ... Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University , where he holds the Edward and...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Longtime Director June Makela Steps Down as Lorraine Marasigan Promoted to Lead the Norman Foundation

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12/12/2016

... June Makela Steps Down as Lorraine Marasigan Promoted to Lead the Norman Foundation June Makela, who has led the ... her years of experience in philanthropy and activism to help shape the family foundation’s...

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New York Foundation Welcomes Altaf Rahamatulla as Program Officer

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08/04/2017

... This week New York Foundation welcomed Altaf Rahamatulla to the New York Foundation program team. We couldn’t be more excited. Mr. Rahamatulla comes to us from the Ford Foundation where he served as a program...

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Respected Anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford Steps Into New Role as President of Wenner-Gren Foundation

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08/09/2017

... of the Department of Anthropology and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose research and ... record of accomplishment, and the creativity and drive to lead Wenner-Gren,” said Lorraine...

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The Wenner-Gren Foundation

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Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?

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09/14/2017

... seeing a lot of them crop up these days due in part to struggles for funding, with AI in particular driving some serious dollars to universities. The latest such agreement is between IBM and ... announced a $...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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