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Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night

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04/05/2019

... Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night The new analysis of a 40-year record of more than 70,000 nighttime songbird ... send out flight calls that may lure other nearby birds to their death...

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Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Shows Glimpse of How Moisture and Humidity Affect Mold Growth

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06/10/2019

Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Shows Glimpse of How Moisture and Humidity Affect Mold Growth Brent ... civil, architectural, and environmental engineering department chair, associate professor...

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Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for Programs and Melinda Abrams Promoted to Senior Vice President

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07/16/2019

Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for ... Economic Council, and occupied key positions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she...

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Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

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08/02/2019

... construct in nature can help prospect for new classes of antibiotics through DNA sequencing and genome mining. Scientists used this knowledge to help solve the X-ray crystal structure of the...

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... simplest form, is learning from your peers and listening to their experienced voices. Through working groups, ... lasting connections that improve their own work and that of the larger sector. Connect with the...

Martha Matsuoka Elected New Board Chair for Noyes Foundation

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02/01/2013

Martha Matsuoka, an Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College, was ... Board for 2013. She focuses her teaching and research on issues such as metropolitan regionalism,...

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Beyond Health: A Win-Win Scenario

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In an era of lawsuits and litigation, is it possible to get doctors, ... and lawyers to work as team to help patients resolve legal issues that arise during a...

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What’s Strategy Got to Do With It?

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08/27/2013

TCC Group Director of Philanthropy Chris Cardona analyzes a recent discussion ... for the Stanford Social Innovation Review. In a speech to the staff of the Hewlett Foundation, William Schambra...

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Governance

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Open Society Foundations Award Fellowships to 14 Visionaries Working to Reform Criminal Justice in the United States

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05/14/2014

... Open Society Foundations today awarded $1.25 million to the newest class of Soros Justice Fellows working on a range of criminal justice issues , from solitary confinement...

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Justice Reform

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Michael Bloomberg to Return to Lead Bloomberg L.P.

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09/03/2014

Michael Bloomberg to Return to Lead Bloomberg L.P. Michael R. Bloomberg has decided to reassume the leadership of his business empire only eight months after ending his ... $32...

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Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

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10/19/2014

Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change "Easy" is a word rarely used to ... which required real physical and moral courage, or issues of...

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Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps

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11/03/2014

Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps The Arcus Foundation’s latest effort in support of gay and lesbian issues began with an ominous question: "Is there a future for .....

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

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01/16/2015

Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free Cybersecurity ... feds and big companies like Google and Facebook. Cities of all sizes around the world are increasingly reliant on...

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Technology

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TCC Group Exlpores a New Approach to Capacity Building

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02/03/2015

TCC Group Exlpores a New Approach to Capacity Building The way a funder defines a problem, a field, an issue or a set of stakeholders can have a powerful effect on the impact it ... and mocked as a placebo. But...

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Ford Foundation Funded Study Examines Priorities for Latino Millennials

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03/27/2015

... their white, black and Asian counterparts, but similar to them, have little moral dilemma about using contraception ... and believe it should be widely accessible. A survey of adults ages 18 to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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New JPB-Backed Collaborative Aims to Make Affordable Housing Healthier

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05/21/2015

New JPB-Backed Collaborative Aims to Make Affordable Housing Healthier Co-founded by The New School's Parsons School of Design, Healthy Building Network, Green Science Policy ... will actively influence how...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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Are Too Many Seniors Taking Antidepressants?

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07/31/2015

... that younger adults do, a new study finds. The worry of previous decades—that America’s seniors weren’t receiving attention for mental health issues —may now need to shift, says Donovan Maust...

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Health

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Newman's Own Foundation Launches Fellowship Program

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08/04/2015

... Newman's Own Foundation announced its first formal class of Fellows. The innovative Newman's Own Foundation Fellowship ... philanthropic sector. In addition, the program is designed to expand,...

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