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Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

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07/17/2014

Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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Food Systems

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Primary Care Doctors on the Front Lines of Medicine Are Burning Out

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10/20/2014

Commonwealth Fund reports that the lack of primary care doctors is detrimental to creating an efficient health care system.

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Simons-Funded Study Finds Connection Between Genes That Contribute to Autism

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03/11/2015

... are very likely to have an autism diagnosis. CHD8 is thought to regulate gene expression by modifying the way DNA ...

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Ford Foundation Funded Study Examines Priorities for Latino Millennials

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03/27/2015

... be illegal in most or all cases. However, only 27 percent thought abortion was a critical issue compared to 55 percent ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ford Foundation

William T. Grant Foundation-Funded Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying

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05/01/2015

... impact on mental health in adulthood than originally thought . What’s more, the impact may even be worse ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases New Report On Women in Leadership & Why It Matters

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05/16/2016

... positions at their current employer and only 34% thought that their employers were placing a high priority on ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Details its Mission-Aligned and Impact Investment Strategy

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09/16/2016

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund launches the Mission-Aligned Investing section on its website, detailing how the Fund's investments align with its mission, and how these documents and specific investment information can serve as resources for other...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Impact Investing

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NYSHealth Supports Survey That Unveils Strong Appetite For Health Insurance Info—As Early As High School

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10/13/2016

... before or during high school or college. Forty-one percent thought the skill should begin to be acquired in high school ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Supported by Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Story Explores Trump's Immigration Policies on Turkish Communities

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01/05/2017

... N.J., for 40 years, voted for Trump. He said that he thought the immigration policies of Trump during the election ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Immigration

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Commonwealth Fund President Writes About Keeping Perspective During Turbulent Times

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02/07/2017

At times of dramatic change in a nation’s history, fear and anxiety can become pervasive and overwhelming. Troubling visions of authoritarianism or chaos, of political persecution, and even civil war disturb our waking thoughts and nightly dreams.

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‘I Consider Myself American.’ A New York City Dreamer Reflects on What Losing DACA Would Mean For Him

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09/11/2017

... school and they could afford to send for him. “My thought of coming to America was getting a chance to see what ...

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Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids

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09/12/2017

... comes along that is so darn good you wonder why no one had thought of it before. Such is the case with Peconic Care, a ...

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New Study Shows Organic Farming Traps Carbon in Soil to Combat Climate Change

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09/12/2017

... health of our planet. One of the best ways to do that is thought to be locking more of that carbon into the soil that ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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A Deadly Disease Threatens To Regain Ground Deep In The African Jungle

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09/14/2017

... traditional healer, and he didn’t solve it.” “People thought that I must have been cursed,” the father of nine ...

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How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political

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09/28/2017

... to the DeVos Family Went Political Patricia Constantine thought hard about whether to use an image of the education ...

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