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Capital One to Invest $150 Million to Help Close Digital Skills Gap

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03/10/2015

... designed to help them invest for the future. According to new research released by Capital One and Burning Glass ... seeking advanced digital skills. Recipients of the new Capital One Fellowship will have full...

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06 May 2015

Executive Assistants Network - Tech Trends

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... staff . Technology is always evolving, whether it’s a new program or updated software— new becomes old fairly quickly. Come and learn from your ...

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NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color

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10/23/2015

... of color not an equal priority? The fact is that few new philanthropic efforts are aimed specifically at improving ... Foundation’s Executive Director Pamela Shifman about the new Grantmakers for Girls of...

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Russell Sage Foundation-Supported Study Details How The System Fails Grandmothers Raising Kids

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01/06/2016

... system not designed to meet their needs. For a new study, researchers interviewed 77 African-American ... they’re also child care consumers.” . . . The new paper, published in the Russell Sage Foundation...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

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02/17/2016

... the media. The goal of the fellowship program is to foster new discourse about arts and culture that reflects the ... Bomb, a website dedicated to sustaining the visual arts in New Orleans. These writers,...

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PhilTV This Week: March 3, 2017

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03/03/2017

... Do You See Yourself In the First Nations Struggle? Name A New Kind of Funder Action Meeting PhilTV This Week: March 3, ...

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Inside Game: A Foundation Supports LGBTQ Leaders in the Halls of Power

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09/11/2017

... to gains at the federal level, these funders were focusing new attention and resources at the state and local level, ... both legal and common. This push has been helped along by new funders who've...

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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

... bound to a morphine derivative. They then created a new drug-like compound that activates only that receptor, a key step in the development of new pain medications. A release from the university notes ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Publishes Results of Largest Survey of American Mayors

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04/05/2018

... time, more mayors say that their relationship with the new administration has gotten worse over the past year. The ... a program designed to empower city leaders to generate new ideas and advance policy that...

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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

... Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be ... source has been out of reach. The UW team developed a new system that eliminates all of...

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The Pfizer Foundation Announces $5 Million in Grants to Support Women and Families

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05/30/2018

... Women and Families The Pfizer Foundation announced today a new $5 million grant commitment to initiatives in low- and ... at the same time children are routinely vaccinated. These new grants build on The...

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The Pfizer Foundation Announces $5 Million in Grants to Support Women and Families

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05/30/2018

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Salesforce Staff Ask CEO to Revisit Ties With Border Agency

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06/28/2018

Hundreds of Salesforce.com Inc. employees signed a letter to Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff criticizing the company’s contracts with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, the latest in a series of staff protests at technology firms...

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

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07/25/2018

... mandates. Massachusetts implemented its mandate in 2006. New Jersey, Vermont, and the District of Columbia passed ... state-based individual mandates were implemented in 2019, New Mexico would see the largest...

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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 ... of retired professional hockey and football players. The new research adds important...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Names More Organizations to Join Cohort of 200 Participating in $43 Million Arts Innovation and Management Training Program

Release Date:

09/05/2018

... seven U.S. cities: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Denver, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. More than 200 ... the country’s most exciting cultural organizations reach new audiences and expand their...

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Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis

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02/13/2019

... an estimated 1.8 million lives and preventing 12 million new TB infections in the next decade, Johnson & Johnson will ... everything we can to create a world free from TB. This new initiative will unleash...

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Arabella Advisors Report Calls on Philanthropy to Catalyze Inclusive Investment

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03/04/2019

... color and women, a report from Arabella Advisors and the New Venture Fund argues. According to the report, An ... minority-owned businesses created 72.3 percent of all new jobs in the United States, while...

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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 ... in light pollution in Chicago in recent years, the new findings show that more needs to be done,...