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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley

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04/16/2014

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, housed on the campus of the ... scientific disciplines study. The institute’s activities center on semester-long programs, which attract large groups ... areas...

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CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high

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05/30/2014

... outbreaks were eliminated in 2000, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The confirmed case count for 2014, as of May 23, was 288 and growing, the CDC says. ... Health...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

11 Leading Philanthropies Respond to White House Report on Young Men of Color

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05/30/2014

... and programs that have the potential to expand opportunity for boys and young men of color. In response, 11 of ... Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Kapor Center for Social...

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Individual Market Insurance Premiums Grew 10 Percent Yearly Prior to Affordable Care Act

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06/05/2014

... Prior to Affordable Care Act Health insurance premiums for people buying coverage on their own grew an average of 10 ... collected in 2012 by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to look at...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

... around the world,” says a report calledOutsourcing for Social Good from Telus International, a Canadian ...

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Barbara Picower Is Back In Business As One Of The Nation's Top Philanthropists

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09/09/2014

... by asset size in the nation, according to Foundation Center ’s list of the largest grant-making foundations.... ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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NYCT Supports South Bronx Culture Trail

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10/03/2014

... South Bronx Culture Trail An arts and education center and what's believed to be the first Puerto Rican-owned ... borough's rich cultural history, organizers said. Money for the project comes from...

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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... the cause of U.S. debt reduction, is now taking aim at some $800 billion in annual waste in the nation’s ... announce a $200 million offshoot next month, the Peterson Center on Healthcare. The new organization...

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Why Are the Rockefellers Moving From 30 Rock?

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11/24/2014

... sold off 30 Rock and nine other landmark Rockefeller Center office buildings in the 22-acre Art Deco complex to ...

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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

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01/07/2015

... World Innovation Challenge With chronic disease rates at an all-time high among underserved communities, the Aetna Foundation is looking for new ways to accelerate innovation and reach people ... of those who...

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

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01/16/2015

... Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World— For Free Cybersecurity isn’t just an issue for the feds and big companies like Google and Facebook. ... by the Rockefeller Foundation. “We’ll lead...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... from Bloomberg Philanthropies to enable the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct tobacco-usage ... Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) and the Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS), both components...

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Sloan Foundation Awards $3 Million for Minority PhDs in STEM Fields

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03/27/2015

Sloan Foundation Awards $3 Million for Minority PhDs in STEM Fields The Alfred P. Sloan ... initiative, each institution will create a University Center of Exemplary Mentoring that will provide scholarships .....

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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research

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04/10/2015

... Glaucoma Research Currently, there is no cure for the disease, and once vision is lost, it cannot be ... of the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics at the University of Tennessee Health Science...

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Inside the Russell Sage Foundation

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04/15/2015

... grants going to scholars across the country who've looked at today's inequality and its consequences from every ... a crucial, if subtle role in moving inequality to the center of politics and policy...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

... that drive cancer drug resistance in tumor cells and, at the same time, will work with researchers at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer to launch the largest...

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

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06/05/2015

'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits The first investment by a group of New York ... will use the loan to finish building an Urban Development Center , where local residents will get...

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