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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

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08/15/2017

... against disease, and they confer health benefits and are used in the food and drug industries. A new study ... properties and commonly used as food dyes. Betalains are made by cactus fruit, flowers such as...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/29/2017

... now spent the better part of a decade in the country, and are still living on the margins, neither benefiting from nor ...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards $26 Million in Grants

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10/05/2017

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in Agoura Hills, California, has announced fourteen third-quarter grants totaling $26 millio n.

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Housing and Homelessness

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Simons Foundation Releases The Eternal Sky, Part 2: The Hunt for Inflation

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10/05/2017

... inflation of the newborn universe. The gravitational waves are the “ultimate message in a bottle,” says ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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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

... 30 percent higher than previously projected. These results are described in “Natural climate solutions,” published ... analyses show that natural climate solutions—the proven ways of storing and reducing...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Russell Sage Foundation Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives To Four-Year College Degrees

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10/23/2017

... education system has become an SAT rat race in which youth are judged on where they fall on the bell curve of test ... reputation and funding, high schools sometimes find ways to exclude low achieving students...

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JPMorgan Chase & Co., Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway To Partner on U.S. Employee Healthcare

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01/30/2018

... To Partner on U.S. Employee Healthcare Health care costs are "a hungry tapeworm on the American economy," Berkshire ... incentives and constraints" as it tries to find ways to cut costs and...

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Schott Foundation President on How to Keep our Schools Safe

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03/09/2018

... show up.” We need no clearer evidence that hurt people are more likely to hurt people. For educators, that carries ... who teach more than 90 percent of America’s children, are charged with teaching students...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Salesforce.org Join Other Techies to Help Aid Groups Tackle the Global Refugee Crisis

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03/16/2018

... and overhaul the way they operate. “At the moment, there are about 65 million people displaced as result of conflict, and typically, they are displaced for a decade,” says Ravi Gurumurthy, chief ... must start...

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Salesforce.org Continues Its Commitment to Public Schools

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04/09/2018

... moved to Indianapolis only last year, and in a lot of ways , this grant can be seen as a continuation of the work ...

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Mac Aids Fund Lends Its Support to Some of the Most Beautiful Moments in Angels in America

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04/17/2018

How Angels in America comes to life on Broadway.

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

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Markle Foundation Initiative, Skillful, Is Going Coast-to-Coast

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07/03/2018

... of workers without college degrees and now more states are joining in this effort to transform hiring practices and ...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

It’s nearly impossible to break a dry spaghetti noodle into only two pieces. A new MIT study shows how and why it can be done.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Researchers Find Alzheimer's One Day May Be Predicted During Eye Exam

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08/23/2018

... onset of symptoms, so researchers have been looking for ways to detect the disease sooner. Supported by Research to ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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New Study Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation Shows Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering

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11/13/2018

... vehicle for anchoring student learning in contexts that are meaningful to them, the report says. Interacting with ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Black Girls Play Secures Three-Year Funding from Novo Foundation

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03/06/2019

... and adults alike. All of the conservatory's music programs are available to Black Girls Play participants at no cost. ... of Black Girls in Schools, which details the ways that educational institutions...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

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08/02/2019

New insight about a broad spectrum antibiotic agent, obafluorin, made from a fluorescent strain of soil bacteria might offer a powerful antidote to antibiotic resistance, researchers say.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Cambia Health Foundation and The John A. Hartford Foundation Unite to Improve Awareness and Access to Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care

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08/29/2019

Today, the Cambia Health Foundation and The John A. Hartford Foundation announced their partnership to co-fund seven national organizations working to improve care for older adults and other people facing serious illness and the end of life.

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