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Edna McConnell Clark and Others Launch $1B Initiative Providing Long-Term, Unrestricted Funding

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02/02/2016

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and nine other donors announced a new investment inititative to put at least $1 billion to work in high-performance nonprofits that are poised to have truly national impact for economically disadvantaged children...

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New Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds Americans Suffering Health Coverage Insecurity Along with Job Losses

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04/21/2020

New Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds Americans Suffering Health Coverage ... A new survey of U.S. adults by SSRS and the Commonwealth Fund provides some answers. About a third (32%) of adults ... been affected by...

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United Hospital Fund Co-Designs Digital Prototype to Facilitate Patient-Provider Interactions

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06/23/2021

United Hospital Fund Co-Designs Digital Prototype to Facilitate ... patients and their health care providers, United Hospital Fund (UHF) released a report today describing the development ... once it had been...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation-Funded Study Shows Younger Women Delay Seeking Help for Heart Attacks

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02/25/2015

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women under age 55.

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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

The study looked at more than 500 Black and Latino college students who entered college in the fall of 2013.

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Economic Security

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky

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11/20/2017

The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Science

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Tow Foundation Funded CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Announces First-Ever Endowed Chair, Professor Jeff Jarvis

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11/21/2017

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is excited to announce its first-ever endowed chair, in journalism innovation, and the first designee will be Professor Jeff Jarvis, a world-renowned thought leader on the future of the news business.

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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

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11/30/2017

If current trends in child obesity continue, more than 57% of today’s children in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Freedom Together Foundation

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David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care

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12/21/2017

David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care The ... Maine... David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will...

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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

Supported by The Mayday Fund , Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better ... that the structure is available... Supported by The Mayday Fund , Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better ...

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Research Funded By The Russell Sage Foundation Shows Why Paid Family Leave Laws Could Hurt SNF Census

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01/11/2018

Research shows that statewide paid family leave laws have a slew of benefits for both employees and employers across industries, from higher worker morale to health improvements among children.

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

Mice with the genetic defect that causes Fragile X syndrome (FXS) learn and remember normally, but show an inability to learn new information that contradicts what they initially learned, a new study shows. FXS is the most common genetic cause of...

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Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser

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02/21/2018

Although mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones let us communicate, work and access information wirelessly, their batteries must still be charged by plugging them into an outlet. But engineers at the University of Washington have for the...

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Ford, Hilton Foundation, and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability

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02/23/2018

... and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability Understanding that stable ... and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability ...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Housing and Homelessness

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New York State Health Foundation Funded Study Finds Most NY Health Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans

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03/01/2018

Only about 2 percent of the physicians and other health care providers in New York State are equipped to provide timely and quality care to veterans in the community, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology ... Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free...

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With Support from The Andrus Family Fund, Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 Cohort

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06/21/2018

With Support from The Andrus Family Fund , Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 ... ... With Support from The Andrus Family Fund , Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 ...

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Funded by the Carnegie Corporation, New Digital Tool Gives Parents a Gut Check on Their Childs Readiness for the New School Year

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08/07/2018

Funded by the Carnegie Corporation, New Digital Tool Gives Parents a Gut Check on Their Childs Readiness for the New School Year Today Learning Heroes announces the launch of its Readiness Check , an innovative, digital tool to...

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Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players

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08/09/2018

In a new study, researchers found no evidence of early onset dementia in a small sample of retired professional hockey and football players.

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