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Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President

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03/08/2017

... she has also served as inaugural director of the program in African American history at the Library Company of ... and the Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave in February 2017. It is an account of a...

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With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

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04/25/2017

... may be the earliest identity and social category to emerge in development, research suggests, and acquiring knowledge ... considered a critical part of early childhood development. In one of the first...

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NY Women’s Foundation Points Out Gender Issues that Need Addressing in Rikers’ Reform

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05/11/2017

... Foundation Points Out Gender Issues that Need Addressing in Rikers’ Reform With the welcome news that the jail ... about the people who end up there. The number of women in the American justice system...

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The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced

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06/05/2017

... Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research holds exceptional ... to conduct innovative research on the role of microbes in intestinal health, the prevention...

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NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality

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07/19/2017

... mission is to build more healthy partnerships in the world, what better place to start than with their own internal partnerships? In fact, for Peter and Jennifer Buffett of the NoVo ... tendency, the Buffetts...

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NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars

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08/14/2017

NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars Following last month’s contentious ... repealing the Affordable Care Act, the next major battle in the health care wars may already be...

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The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced

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09/05/2017

... for bold peer organizing This community foundation based in Baton Rouge is being honored for using its influence and expertise to address critical issues in the state, particularly its efforts around criminal...

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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... strategies that help students improve their proficiency in math, a linchpin academic subject. Teacher Advisor With ...

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As Incident Reports Rise, City Officials Seek New Answers to Combat Domestic Violence

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09/18/2017

... Seek New Answers to Combat Domestic Violence Increases in reports of domestic violence have gotten the attention New ... more; while new legislation is expected to soon pass in the City Council. On Monday, the...

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Commonwealth Fund: What Are the Potential Effects of the Graham-Cassidy ACA Repeal-and-Replace Bill? Past Estimates Provide Some Clues

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09/21/2017

... estimates, it is likely that the bill, if enacted, would lead to a loss of health insurance for at least 32 million ... subsidies and federal funding for the Medicaid expansion in 2020. Creates temporary block...

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Five Foundation Leaders Join National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Board

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09/28/2017

... Starsky Wilson, president and CEO of Deaconess Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, was elected unanimously as the new ...

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

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09/29/2017

Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed ... to be done. The report's conclusions are summarized in the title: " America Needs More Teachers of Color and a ... admissions...

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Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation

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10/04/2017

... leading progressive public policy think tank with offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Jen Mishory will serve as a ... to help improve the lives of young people across America. In this extraordinary...

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The Tinker Foundation Announces Next President, Caroline Boyd Kronley

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10/12/2017

... as its next President. Renate is retiring after 45 years in a variety of roles at the Foundation. Caroline, who is ... to make Tinker’s work even more impactful and innovative in a rapidly changing Latin...

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

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11/01/2017

Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to ... maximum-security inmates who beat a Harvard College team in a debate two years ago put a national spotlight on the ... Initiative. Now Bard...

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Arcus Funds LGBTQ Capacity Building Grants In An Under-Resourced Region

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11/02/2017

Arcus Funds LGBTQ Capacity Building Grants In An Under-Resourced Region When Funders for LGBTQ Issues released its first Out in the South report in 2014, it found that per capita, LGBTQ .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Cities of Service Announces Engaged Cities Award

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11/06/2017

... Service Announces Engaged Cities Award On a sunny Sunday in February, dozens of citizens in the greater Phoenix area descend on Hu-O-Te Park, a shabby community space in downtown that has...

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Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound Essential to Formation of Life on Earth

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11/07/2017

... on Earth Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla announced Monday that they may have found a ... been crucial for the assembly of three key ingredients in early life forms — short strands of...

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Ms. Foundation For Women and New York Women's Foundation Take A Stand With Prosperity Together

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11/14/2017

... million collective commitment over five years to invest in innovative programs and strategies in communities across the country that are creating pathways ... president and CEO of The New York Women’s...

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