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Library of Congress Enriches America’s Story by Connecting with Minority Communities, Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant

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01/27/2021

Multiyear Initiative to Share and Preserve Diverse Contemporary Culture and Provide Opportunities to the Next Generation of Knowledge Workers

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Arts

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United Hospital Fund Co-Designs Digital Prototype to Facilitate Patient-Provider Interactions

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06/23/2021

United Hospital Fund Co-Designs Digital Prototype to Facilitate ... patients and their health care providers, United Hospital Fund (UHF) released a report today describing the development ... once it had been...

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United Hospital Fund Announces Seven Health Care Professionals Chosen for Pediatric Fellowship Program

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05/25/2022

United Hospital Fund Announces Seven Health Care Professionals Chosen for ... Program NEW YORK, NY—May 25, 2021—United Hospital Fund (UHF) today announced its second class of PEDS Network ... by The Mother Cabrini...

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08 Jul 2024

Fearless Fund Next Steps: PSOs, Advocacy & Action - A Virtual Meeting Hosted by United Philanthropy Forum and ABFE

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2:00pm to 3:00pm

... With the ongoing legal challenge to the Fearless Fund ’s grantmaking supporting women entrepreneurs of color, ... that aim to advance racial equity, with the Fearless Fund case being a prime example. Many in...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation-Funded Study Shows Younger Women Delay Seeking Help for Heart Attacks

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02/25/2015

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women under age 55.

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William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

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09/10/2015

The study looked at more than 500 Black and Latino college students who entered college in the fall of 2013.

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As Schools Adopt Social-Emotional Programs, A New Guide Funded by the Wallace Foundation Offers Help

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05/17/2017

A new guide, Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out, published by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, aims to steer school districts through the thicket of social...

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Chief Of 100 Resilient Cities, A Rockefeller Funded Program, On How Cities Can Tackle Climate Change

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07/25/2017

Nearly five years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York to devastating effect, America’s most populated city is still rebuilding in some areas — and, with an office of recovery and resiliency and a city-wide strategy — is looking ahead to how best to...

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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

Bard College plans to launch a “microcollege” at the Brooklyn Public Library and will be free for students, aiming to attract talented low-income applicants who haven’t sought degrees due to the pricetag or personal hardships

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky

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11/20/2017

The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Tow Foundation Funded CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Announces First-Ever Endowed Chair, Professor Jeff Jarvis

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11/21/2017

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is excited to announce its first-ever endowed chair, in journalism innovation, and the first designee will be Professor Jeff Jarvis, a world-renowned thought leader on the future of the news business.

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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

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11/30/2017

If current trends in child obesity continue, more than 57% of today’s children in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care

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12/21/2017

David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care The ... Maine... David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will...

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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

Supported by The Mayday Fund , Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better ... that the structure is available... Supported by The Mayday Fund , Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better ...

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Research Funded By The Russell Sage Foundation Shows Why Paid Family Leave Laws Could Hurt SNF Census

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01/11/2018

Research shows that statewide paid family leave laws have a slew of benefits for both employees and employers across industries, from higher worker morale to health improvements among children.

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

Mice with the genetic defect that causes Fragile X syndrome (FXS) learn and remember normally, but show an inability to learn new information that contradicts what they initially learned, a new study shows. FXS is the most common genetic cause of...

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New Report Funded by JPB Foundation says u.S. Cities Can save Billions with Green, Resilient Design

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02/08/2018

A new report released yesterday stresses that making it a de facto policy for U.S. cities would be a cost-effective design solution that could save millions, and even billions, of dollars.

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Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser

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02/21/2018

Although mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones let us communicate, work and access information wirelessly, their batteries must still be charged by plugging them into an outlet. But engineers at the University of Washington have for the...

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Ford, Hilton Foundation, and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability

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02/23/2018

... and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability Understanding that stable ... and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability ...

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