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Research To Prevent Blindness-Backed Project Identifies Potential Biomarkers Of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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09/12/2017

... macular degeneration (AMD) carry signs of the disease in their blood that may be found through special laboratory ... These potential lipid biomarkers in human blood plasma may lead to...

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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side

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09/13/2017

... plan that officials hope will spur more economic diversity in Lower East Side elementary schools. It is the first effort ... basis, and follows years of lobbying by parent advocates in District 1, which also...

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Education

Trump Denies He Made A Deal With Democrats On DREAMer Protections

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09/14/2017

... Action for Childhood Arrivals program is scheduled to end in March. "No deal was made last night on DACA," he tweeted ... "Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for...

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Immigration

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

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09/15/2017

... Sanders argued for his “Medicare for all” legislation in an Op-Ed published in The New York Times on Wednesday, while his Republican colleagues dismissed the idea in a news conference. Here’s...

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The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough

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09/19/2017

The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough From the moment that the first streetcars ... started rumbling along New York City’s streets in the 19th century, people have sought ways to make it ... and...

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Community Development

These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... anyway, PayPal and Western Union countered “We are still in .” These corporate titans and at least 22 others were ... those who sought to preserve the United States’ role in the landmark Paris agreement...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain— in much the same way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The ... 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories...

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Science

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors Rhea Wong never felt comfortable using elevator ... donors. One woman offered internships for the young people in the program. One man persuaded...

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Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board

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09/22/2017

... for Public Education, to its board. For the first time in the history of the Andrus Family Fund, AFF has invited ... leadership roles on various boards and advisory committees in the philanthropic sector...

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Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change

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09/26/2017

... academic medical center to join the GCCHE. Faculty members in the Climate and Health Program at Columbia University's ... School of Public Health, the first academic program in climate and health ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disparities in Health of NYC Latino Populations

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09/28/2017

Disparities in Health of NYC Latino Populations Latinos, who make up ... Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Mexicans. . . Disparities in Health of NYC Latino Populations ...

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David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall

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10/05/2017

... institutions to downsize their ambitions. Mr. Geffen, in a telephone interview, was searing and candid about ... has as many wealthy individuals who’ve made a fortune in New York — that they couldn’t show up...

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A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

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10/06/2017

... Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration? In addition to supporting artists in the many fields in which Rauschenberg worked, the foundation has taken the lead...

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The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

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10/06/2017

... for removal. The Pew Research Center reports that, in 2016, 32 percent of all refugees that came to the United ... leading countries of origin. This number is even higher in 2017, with the New York Times...

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so little growth created so many jobs. The unemployment rate in the developed world is down to 5.5 percent and approaching ... of...

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Rockefeller Foundation Research Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children

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10/10/2017

... Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children A University of Vermont-led study of 300,000 children in 35 nations says kids whose watersheds have greater tree ... of death for children...

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Atlantic Philanthropies and Ford Foundation Funded Lynching Memorial and Slavery Museum Sets April Opening

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11/14/2017

... victims and a new museum dedicated to slavery on April 26 in Montgomery. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice recognizing 4,000 blacks lynched and tortured in America is under construction between...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Social Justice

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Encourages Donors to Give Where They Live with $100,000 Match

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11/20/2017

... Community Foundation, which is matching up to $100,000 in donations made that day to select nonprofits at www.BrooklynGives.org . #BrooklynGives is presented in partnership with the Office of the Brooklyn...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Exploration Into Labor and Civil Rights History at National Park Service

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11/28/2017

... grant will fund one fellow to work under a leading expert in one of three fields: gender and sexual equality, the ... Movement, and the history of labor and productivity. In addition to conducting original...

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