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Novo Foundation Partners With Southern Black Girls & Women’s Consortium to Support Growing Movement for Black Girls in the Southeastern U.S.

Release Date:

10/16/2018

... Southeastern U.S. The NoVo Foundation today announced a new partnership with the Southern Black Girls & Women’s Consortium, a new collective of funders, activists and community leaders...

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

Release Date:

08/02/2019

... scaffolds construct in nature can help prospect for new classes of antibiotics through DNA sequencing and genome mining. ... classes.” Scientists could use these chemicals as next-generation...

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The Burke Foundation Awards Support to Help Young Children and Families Thrive

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01/21/2021

... Burke Foundation awarded $2 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 to non-profit organizations in New Jersey working to improve prenatal and child health. New ... of Social...

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10 Nov 2020

Strengthening the Economic Foundation for Youth During COVID & Beyond - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... While COVID 19 has had dramatic impacts on all segments of society, Generation Z will likely bear the greatest financial brunt of this crisis. Inheriting a society filled ... not only during...

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Children, Youth and Families

Economic Security

Community-based Wildlife Carcass Surveillance Is Key for Early Detection of Ebola Virus, Study Supported By Arcus Foundation Finds

Release Date:

08/28/2019

... Wildlife Carcass Surveillance Is Key for Early Detection of Ebola Virus, Study Supported By Arcus Foundation Finds ... percent. In fact the western lowland gorilla is classified as critically endangered and...

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Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline in Women in Workforce

Release Date:

07/28/2014

Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline Of Women in Workforce As ... States who are working or want to work has been declining, new evidence suggests that one way to stem the dip...

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Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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01/13/2016

Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness) A large new study reveals previously unknown risk factors associated ... The findings, made...

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Rauch Foundation and Others Publish Report that Quantifies Long Island’s Housing Needs

Release Date:

02/05/2016

... HR&A Advisors Inc., and the Rauch Foundation released new research this week highlighting the high demand for ... on Long Island. The report, funded by the Rauch Foundation as part of the...

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

Release Date:

08/14/2017

... Online Archive It is always a cause for celebration when new archival history resources go online — especially for the enthusiastic digger of sometimes obscure history. Brooklyn history buffs have a .....

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Novo Foundation's Push For Bottom-Up Power

Release Date:

06/26/2018

... eye on the NoVo Foundation, both for the deep pockets of the Buffett family to which it’s connected, and for its ... to social justice, particularly for young women and girls of color. It’s unusual to find a...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Report Finds Gaps, Opportunities in Impact Investment Field

Release Date:

06/26/2018

... search for a mission-driven investment advisor as part of an effort to better align its endowment with its ... impact investing strategies could match or exceed the financial performance...

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CollegePoint, An Initiative Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Makes A Hard Decision Less Lonely

Release Date:

08/15/2018

... Hard Decision Less Lonely Some high school students think of applying to colleges as a full-time job. There are essays and tests, loads of financial documents to assemble...

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How the Art For Justice Fund Hopes to Reduce Mass Incarceration

Release Date:

08/16/2018

... marked a rare and possibly portentous example of a patron wielding her philanthropic and financial leverage to tackle a vexing social challenge. Late ... phase one focused on literary organizations such...

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Russell Sage Foundation Author/Grantee Edward Wolff Cited in NY Times Article About Record-setting Bull Market and Uneven Wealth Distribution

Release Date:

08/23/2018

... The party has been going for more than a decade. But a lot of Americans haven’t been celebrating. Stocks crossed a ... than 320 percent since emerging from the rubble of the financial crisis...

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Arabella Advisors Launch "Good Food Ventures III" to Transform Food System

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09/24/2019

... and its food-system investment team announced the launch of “Good Food Ventures III.” Good Food Ventures (GFV) is ... the gap. Private investors see opportunity for impact and financial success in this sector...

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Food Systems

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Arabella Advisors

Rockefeller Foundation Commits $3 Million to Help Cities Build Resilient Infrastructure Systems

Release Date:

01/22/2013

... cities with seed funding and technical support to create new Community Investment Vehicles (CIVics) that can leverage hundreds of millions of dollars of private investment...

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Kiva City Launches in Washington, D.C.

Release Date:

01/11/2013

... Center and Capital One Bank have announced the launch of Kiva City D.C., a website that will provide small business ... D.C., area with access to crowdfunded microloans. A new partnership between Capital One...

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Salk Institute Receives $42 Million From Helmsley Charitable Trust to Create Research Center for Genomic Medicine

Release Date:

01/24/2013

... for Genomic Medicine will enable scientists in a range of fields to explore how certain cellular pathways serve as lynchpins for chronic diseases, which could lead to new therapy targets. The...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

AARP, Weinberg Foundations Commit $10.5 Million for Skilled Nursing Care Model

Release Date:

07/17/2013

... nursing care to low-income seniors got a boost recently as both AARP Foundation and The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced new investments in The Green House Project. The new...

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Cost of Health Care a Burden for Most U.S. Households

Release Date:

04/15/2014

A new study published by the Milbank Memorial Fund's Milbank Quarterly finds the cost of health care to be a burden for most U.S. households. Since ... said that she and her colleagues conducted the study...

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