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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

... 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 ... Ward, programmer/analyst at Harvard Chan School ’s Center...

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A New Study Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Reveals that Antioxidant Therapy Prevents Vision Loss in Rare Birth Defect

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02/07/2018

... in Rare Birth Defect A new study led by vision researchers at UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the VA Western ... School and the Ira G. Ross Eye Institute Vision...

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Research Funded By The Commonwealth Fund Shows Overdose Risk Quintuples With Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use

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06/22/2018

... according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, published today in JAMA Network Open. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends against ... Inmaculada...

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Long Game: Inside the Carnegie Corporation’s Quest to Improve Science Education

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02/20/2019

... put $4 million into the organization through the National Center for Civic Innovation at the Fund for the City of New York. “The quality of the ...

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Remembering Janet Kelley

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02/03/2020

... working with the Youth Funders Network and corralling us for more than 12 years. As the Founding Executive Director of ... stations throughout the US; Director of Career Development at the Court Employment...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help City Leaders Respond to Coronavirus in the United States

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03/10/2020

... Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies, working with partners at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Bloomberg Harvard City ... most up-to-date information on the virus from the Centers...

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PNY Joins Philanthropy Groups in Calling on Funders to Keep Equity at the Forefront of Philanthropy’s Response to COVID-19

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03/20/2020

... Philanthropy Groups in Calling on Funders to Keep Equity at the Forefront of Philanthropy’s Response to COVID-19 The ... outbreak may exacerbate inequities. In a recent op-ed for The Washington Post, Dr...

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15 Jan 2015

Getting Better at Getting Better: Using Data to Improve Student Social-Emotional Learning

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8:00am to 11:00am

... data and measurement tools to help young people set goals for themselves and build social-emotional competencies (SEL) ... President, Algorhythm Daniel Oscar , CEO, Center for Supportive...

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Dr. Renée Boynton-Jarrett Joins the Burke Foundation Board

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05/20/2021

... and families as a practicing primary care pediatrician at Boston Medical Center , a social epidemiologist, and founding director of the ... of visionary leadership and served as Chairman and CEO for...

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David Gracia Named New Executive Director at the Musicians Foundation

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04/21/2023

David Gracia Named New Executive Director at the Musicians Foundation David Gracia joins as new ... B.C. Vermeersch, who led the 108-year-old organization for 26 years NEW YORK CITY, NY – The Board of Directors of...

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12 Jul 2012

Education Working Group Lunch: 2013 Reform Review Project

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12:00pm to 2:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... been invested heavily. Mayor Bloomberg’s control of the school system, gained early in his tenure, provided ... to execute diverse and sweeping reforms. In 2013, for the first time since mayoral control of...

10 Mar 2014

The City Budget: Understanding a Vital Lifeline for New York’s Nonprofits

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8:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York

... How does the “budget dance” affect nonprofits? Join us for a conversation with four of the City’s leading budget ... can make foundations better grantmakers and agents of change in New York City communities...

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Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case

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12/11/2015

... Antonin Scalia hesitantly asked whether it might be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well” than to go to a highly selective ... G. Garre, the lawyer defending the...

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United Hospital Fund Works to Tackle Antibiotic Misuse in Outpatient Care

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02/22/2016

... community. Nationally, over 250 million prescriptions for antibiotics are written each year (in all settings), and ... experts. Those receiving grants are Interfaith Medical Center ($30,000), MediSys Health...

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

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05 Oct 2016

Urban Agriculture & Social Justice Activism

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5:30pm to 7:30pm

... have the greatest potential to achieve substantive social change . Join us for a wine and cheese reception with the authors and their ... 3rd . Members : To register yourself and/or a colleague at...

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If Elite Colleges Want to Address the College Admissions Bribery Scandal — Accept More Low- and Middle-Income Strivers

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03/18/2019

... of our top universities. If these institutions want to change their admission policies, they should double down on ... are doing what decent affluent and resourced families do for their children — guide and...

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The Latino Commission on AIDS and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Teams Win Morgan Stanley’s Annual Strategy Challenge Supporting Nonprofits in the U.S. and the UK

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05/19/2022

... Morgan Stanley employees worked with leadership teams at 15 nonprofit organizations to provide recommendations to ... are critical to bringing meaningful impact and long-term change to the organizations’...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Names Four Renowned Leaders in Global Service, Academia, and Management to its Board of Directors

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01/15/2014

... has also been deeply engaged in educational issues. For many years, she was a professor of history at Middlebury College, and served a term on the board of ... a Fellow, and then a trustee, of the National...

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Elliot Berger joins Arabella Advisors

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05/01/2013

... Merrill Lynch, Berger served as a Director of Development at New York University’s Stern School of Business and oversaw individual major gifts for all 13 divisions of NYU. He began his career...

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