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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

... Preparation. What's Needed Now? It is well known that one of the keys to a high-quality education system are excellent ... Research has consistently identified effective teachers as the most important...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

... global advancement on climate action, with hundreds of global businesses and national and sub-national leaders ... on the momentum of the Paris Agreement to initiate new climate pledges,...

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Report Shows Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States

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12/14/2017

... Act’s major health coverage expansions, according to a new Commonwealth Fund scorecard assessing access to health care. New Mexico’s rate dropped the most between 2013 and 2016, ... insurance on their own...

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Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database

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01/09/2018

... the website will allow people to search millions of pieces of slave data to identify enslaved individuals and their ... grant from the Mellon Foundation. ''Enslaved' brings new...

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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... Opioid For the first time, scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and collaborators solved ... bound to a morphine derivative. They then created a new drug-like...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Publishes Results of Largest Survey of American Mayors

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04/05/2018

Bloomberg Philanthropies Publishes Results of Largest Survey of American Mayors Bloomberg Philanthropies ... time, more mayors say that their relationship with the new administration has gotten...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

... Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method...

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ASPCA Opens Permanent, State-of-the-Art Behavioral Rehabilitation Center

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05/10/2018

ASPCA Opens Permanent, State- of -the-Art Behavioral Rehabilitation Center The ASPCA ® t oday announces the official opening of its Behavioral Rehabilitation Center in Weaverville, N.C, ... are victims of...

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Commonwealth Funded Study Shows Impacts State-based Individual Mandates Would Have in 2019

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07/25/2018

... to the penalty structure under the ACA before the passage of The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. Currently only three states have implemented ... mandates. Massachusetts implemented its mandate in 2006. ...

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Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players

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08/09/2018

... Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players In a new study, researchers found no evidence of early onset dementia in a small sample of retired professional hockey and football players...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group Announce Joint Project to Increase Economic Mobility in Local Communities

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11/15/2018

... Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group announced today a new $12 million project that will help communities analyze ... barriers to economic mobility, understand the impact of potential interventions, and share...

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Arabella Advisors Report Calls on Philanthropy to Catalyze Inclusive Investment

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03/04/2019

... that ensure equitable access to capital for people of color and women, a report from Arabella Advisors and the New Venture Fund argues. According to the report, An ... Unlock Capital for Women Entrepreneurs...

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OpEd: CEO Lori Bezahler on Edward W. Hazen Foundation’s Decision to Empty Its Coffers

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03/06/2019

... an increase in philanthropic support for a diverse range of nonprofits advancing a progressive agenda. Grant makers ... who have just started awarding money to these causes, as well as...

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JPMorgan Chase Gives $350M to Workforce Training, Community Colleges

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03/19/2019

... to provide the training panacea for the current skills gap as well as affordable ways for people to refresh or add to ... public institutions at scale" rather than rolling out " new...

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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

... Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night The new analysis of a 40-year record of more than 70,000 nighttime songbird collisions in Chicago ...

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Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Helps Fund Research to Find Personalized Treatment for Crohn's Disease

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05/03/2019

... environment. These miniature systems, which serve as accurate models of various organs from the heart and lungs to the gut and the ... upstream initiator of gut inflammation. Now, thanks to a...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research of Human Impact on Indoor Climate

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06/04/2019

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research of Human Impact on Indoor Climate Human impact on the indoor ... that have previously been used for measurements of the atmospheric climate and registration of...

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Milbank Memorial Fund, John A. Hartford Foundation, Commonwealth Fund Support Study That Reveals How ACOs Use Home Visits to Improve Care and Reduce Hospital Use

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06/21/2019

... Use Home Visits to Improve Care and Reduce Hospital Use A new Dartmouth-led study, published this week in the June issue of Health Affairs, offers new details about how one key ... while...

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Open Society University Network Launches to Transform Higher Education

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01/23/2020

... Soros announced today that he is creating a new university network to better prepare students for current ... students who need it the most and to promote the values of open society—including free expression...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Increases Spending to Seize ‘Hinge Moment in History’

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06/30/2020

... justice crisis. The funds, approved with unanimous support of the board, will work to advance racial justice, strengthen U.S. democracy, and generate new economic thinking to address global climate change and...

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