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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation , MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti ... for why the sticks refused to snap in two. Feynman’ s kitchen experiment remained unresolved until 2005, when ... be...

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Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change

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09/10/2018

Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next ... of Farmers for Climate Change Many of the world 039 ; s future farmers will likely be farming oceans, as ... its...

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Rita Allen Foundation Supports UC Berkley Research Findings that Could Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of Depression

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10/29/2019

Rita Allen Foundation Supports UC Berkley Research Findings that Could ... of motivation. The finding could guide research to find new ways to diagnose and potentially treat individuals ... anhedonia, the...

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William T. Grant Foundation Announces Support for Research on Reparations for Black American Descendants of Enslaved Persons

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07/27/2021

William T. Grant Foundation Announces Support for Research on Reparations for ... but they possess less than three percent of the nation’ s wealth. At the mean, the average level of Black family ... us to move...

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Eight Cities Selected to Participate in National League of Cities Project to Build Financial Inclusion for Families (MetLife Foundation)

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01/20/2016

... Project to Build Financial Inclusion for Families (MetLife Foundation ) The National League of Cities (NLC) today ... build assets. In addition to the Mayors 039 ; Institute, NLC 039 ;...

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Teagle Foundation Releases Report on Their Initiative to Encourage Liberal Arts Colleges to Create Online Courses

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01/30/2018

Teagle Foundation Releases Report on Their Initiative to Encourage ... translate to high student enrollment, a report by Ithaka S &R suggests. The report, published today , looked at the ... experience,...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Foundation Honored with Distinguished Service Award by American Academy of Ophthalmology

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11/13/2015

Research to Prevent Blindness Foundation Honored with Distinguished Service Award by ... The honorees will be recognized AAO 2015, the Academy 039 ; s 119th annual meeting in Las Vegas. Each...

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The Other 95 Percent: How Foundations Can Give All They’ve Got

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05/09/2016

... Got By Melissa Beck, Executive Director of The Educational Foundation of America As private foundations, we usually ... There is also an ethical argument for divestment. Let’ s face it - climate change is the...

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Leaders of the Ford, Open Society, MacArthur, Hewlett, and Packard Foundations Pledge to Do More to Help Charities Pay Overhead

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09/04/2019

... Pay Overhead In an unusual move, five of America’ s wealthiest foundations have joined forces to do more to ... other overhead. In making their announcement today, the foundation leaders said they were...

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In collaboration with the North Star Fund, New York Foundation , Scherman Foundation , and the New York ... followed by Q&A. How do you...

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Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp

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05/14/2019

Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence ... could solve a transitive...

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Research Funded by William T. Grant Foundation Aims to Show Why Some Veterans Go Hungry

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05/30/2019

Research Funded by William T. Grant Foundation Aims to Show Why Some Veterans Go Hungry A new study seeks to understand why some veterans experience ... Kamdar, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Houston...

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Ford, Mellon, Doris Duke, Kellogg, and MacArthur Foundations Pledge to Give More, Hoping to Upend Philanthropy

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06/11/2020

... More, Hoping to Upend Philanthropy The week after the U. S . economy shut down in March, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation , fielded a stream of phone calls from the heads of ... issued bonds...

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The Wallace Foundation and SMU DataArts Release Report - "The Alchemy of High-Performing Arts Organizations"

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08/13/2020

The Wallace Foundation and SMU DataArts Release Report - The Alchemy of ... own set of challenges, we hope this report will inspire new thinking about possible ways forward, while providing ... crises such as a...

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases Report: The Road Ahead for Smart Covid-19 Testing and Tracing in India

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05/20/2021

Rockefeller Foundation Releases Report: The Road Ahead for Smart Covid-19 Testing and Tracing in India In view of India’ s current crisis, our strategic testing and tracing report ... a critical moment. With a...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Joins More Than 80 Philanthropic Leaders to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

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02/15/2018

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Joins More Than 80 Philanthropic Leaders to ... change. During the event, partners also launched the new report Local Leadership, Global Impact: Community ... of the Charles...

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Giving While Living

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09/2017

... What are grantee organizations accomplishing? What’ s working… what’ s not? Or, as Chuck Feeney, founder of ... Philanthropies, never hesitated to ask, starting with the foundation ’ s first grants in 1982: What will we have to ... projects and initiatives, we’ve asked journalists and program evaluators to assemble information, reflections, and ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Invests to Prevent Future Pandemics and Calls for Greater Collaboration to Build a Global Early Warning System

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10/25/2021

The Rockefeller Foundation Invests to Prevent Future Pandemics and Calls for ... next one. At The Rockefeller Foundation , we believe it’ s now possible to say ‘never again’ and mean it, which is...

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