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Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative

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10/01/2014

... of the Brain Initiative, which the president started in 2013 . Tom Kalil, deputy director for technology and innovation, in the White House Office of ...

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New York State Health Foundation Breaks Down Diabetes Prevention

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03/26/2015

... of the medical, diabetes, and public health literature for evaluation studies of interventions published between 2002 and 2013 . The search was undertaken using medical subject ...

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New York Health Foundation

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The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows

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04/15/2015

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for .....

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Commonwealth Fund Blasts Digital Data Breaches

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04/15/2015

... health records were supposed to make life better for patients and doctors – getting rid of bulky and messy ... use it to make discoveries. But those benefits could be for naught if digital medical data aren’t...

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Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

... the winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research. Established in 2013 as part of a $25 million partnership between the ... year's prize-winners will each...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation, OSF and New York Foundation Accept National Impact Awards

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05/20/2015

... watchdog of foundations, NCRP inaugurated the awards in 2013 to honor foundations that embody the ideals of ...

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NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal

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07/06/2015

... and as a result the city will not have to foot the bill for it, the Bond Buyer reports. The nation's first social impact bond — a pay- for -performance vehicle that leverages private funding to .....

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Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds

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04/28/2016

... Program, which supported graduate-level education for more than forty-three hundred emerging social justice leaders from twenty-two countries between 2001 and 2013 , with the goal of giving emerging leaders the...

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Jonas Scholar Finds First Zika Case in the U.S.

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06/02/2016

... he might have a disease called “Zika Fever” in 2013 , she was dubious. In her 15 years as a certified nurse ...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City

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06/10/2016

Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City When he was in his ... to them growing up. Now, as head of the foundation since 2013 , he's directing its $12.4 billion...

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NYS Health Foundation President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic

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07/18/2016

... one knew the magnitude of what was coming. From 1981 to 2013 , an estimated 1,194,039 people in the United States had ...

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Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth

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09/23/2016

... Excelencia in Education analysis of federal data. In 2013 , Latinos made up 17 percent of all students in higher ...

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Funded by Russell Sage, Study Finds Childhood Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year

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11/02/2016

... of kindergarten in 2010 through the end of second grade in 2013 . The results, published in the journal Obesity, provide ...

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New Study Examines How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities

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11/04/2016

... to grow, a new study released today, Setting the Stage for Community Change: Reflecting on Creative Placemaking Outcomes, offers insights for the field of "creative placemaking" and is a working .....

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Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust

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11/22/2016

... Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received a $25 million grant — a ... $42 million Helmsley gift made to the Salk Institute in 2013 . That gift established the...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Uninsured Rates Have Dropped in All States

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12/21/2016

... Finds Uninsured Rates Have Dropped in All States Between 2013 and 2015, uninsured rates for adults ages 19 to 64 declined in all states and by at ... points in 48 states and the District of Columbia. ...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not-for-Profit

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12/21/2016

... Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not- for -Profit The Modern Language Assocation (MLA) Commons launched in early 2013 as a platform for communication among MLA members, enabling...

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The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/11/2017

... underperforming U.S. environmental movement. Starting in 2013 , Overbrook embarked on an effort to address some of the ...

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