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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

... Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project The general public's help is being enlisted in what's thought to be the biggest study of the...

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‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?

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09/15/2017

... Democrats embrace Senator Bernie Sanders’s proposal to vastly expand Medicare to cover all Americans, Republicans ... Sanders argued for his “Medicare for all” legislation in an Op-Ed...

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

... getting the sex education required by the state, according to a report released on Thursday by New York City Comptroller ... among city teenagers is slightly rising, especially in the city's poorest...

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How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India

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09/18/2017

How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India As of 2017, 1.3 billion ... Of those, 290 million men, women, and children are in India, unable to...

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Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees

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09/19/2017

... officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees ... States next year, rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that...

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Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down

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09/20/2017

... Census Bureau last week, shows continued healthy gains in median family incomes and significant drops in poverty, ... Advances: Seven Indicators of New York’s Economic Health .” The Census...

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Gates Foundation Pledges $220 Million for Women, Children, Adolescents

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09/22/2017

... Foundation has announced commitments totaling $220 million in support of efforts to empower women and save the lives of thirty-eight million ... Child initiative, launched in 2010 to...

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7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week

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09/25/2017

7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week No single story can ... consumer goods company might unveil its commitment to use digital payments, just as a minister of health announces new...

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Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

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10/02/2017

... for several years as a result of family issues and poor health . She now has a home in East Flatbush and is dedicated to ensuring others don’t have to undergo what she ...

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Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts ... a Smoke-Free World, Derek Yach, a former senior official at the WHO, said collaboration was necessary to win the war .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria

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10/05/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria Two new strategies show promise in ... involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria parasites,...

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How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings from the Wallace Foundation

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10/06/2017

... Foundation Sometimes, when one reads the phrase “getting to scale,” it feels a little bit like the nonprofit ... Partnerships and Fidelity,” is the latest entry in what the Wallace Foundation itself calls the...

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Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots Sen. ... Agency to resume cleanup efforts of radioactive locations in Lewiston and Niagara Falls, warning...

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As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

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10/18/2017

As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving? After ... Bloomberg Philanthropies recently gave another $64 million to a campaign that’s closing down coal plants in...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

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11/28/2017

... the NAACP Socially conscious investors can look forward to two new exchange-traded funds that aim to direct capital ... ETF, with the ticker symbol "NACP," will invest in companies...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education Releases Recommendations For Helping Native American Youth Live Healthier Lives

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01/18/2018

... For Helping Native American Youth Live Healthier Lives In recent years, philanthropy has experienced a surge of ... trend, but our sector has a great deal of work ahead of us to counter a long history of...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria

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02/16/2018

... Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria In separate studies, researchers test bacteria that ... mosquito immune systems. Two new papers by researchers at the Malaria Research Institute at...

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William Randolph Hearst Foundations Provides Hefty Grant to SOPAC to Partner with School District

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04/26/2018

William Randolph Hearst Foundations Provides Hefty Grant to SOPAC to Partner with School District The South Orange ... its arts education program. The funds will be used both at the center and...

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Arcus Foundation, Casey Family Programs and Other Funders Support Voices of Youth Count

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04/27/2018

... research by Chapin Hall, which provides new insights to the challenges faced by America’s youth who experience ... “Our study reveals the vulnerability of LGBTQ youth in our country today. They are at...

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