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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab ... much the same way that physicists team up in mega- projects to hunt for new particles. The International...

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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

In a new study, researchers found no evidence of early onset dementia in a small sample of retired professional hockey and football players.

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Open Road Alliance - Roadblock Analysis Report

Roadblock Analysis Report In 2017, Open Road conducted an analysis of 102 applications from the past five years to assess trends in its portfolio. The analysis looked at multiple variables, including the size of the organization, project type, sector focus, geographic focus, legal status, and type of original funder. The analysis also coded each application under a taxonomy of “roadblocks” that describe 22 specific challenges that these organizations faced, divided into three broad categories: Organization Misfortune, Acts of God/Market Economics, and Funder-Created...

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New York State Census Equity Fund in the New York Community Trust Awards Grants for Census 2020

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09/17/2020

New York State Census Equity Fund in the New York Community Trust Awards Grants for Census ... undercounted in the census.” Diverse array of projects The Fund , which is housed at The New York...

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WES Mariam Assefa Fund Announces Grants to Support Immigrant and Refugee Employment Initiatives

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09/04/2019

WES Mariam Assefa Fund Announces Grants to Support Immigrant and Refugee ... Sept. 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The WES Mariam Assefa Fund today announced the award of USD$1.2 million in grants ... said Monica...

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Commonwealth Fund Research Cited in NYTimes Piece on 'Fake Freedom' of GOP Health Plan

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03/20/2017

Commonwealth Fund Research Cited in NYTimes Piece on 'Fake Freedom' of GOP ... is an exercise of individual free will... Commonwealth Fund Research Cited in NYTimes Piece on 'Fake Freedom' of...

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New York State Health Foundation Funds Suicide Prevention Study in Four New York Counties

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06/17/2019

Erie County is one of four New York counties participating in a suicide prevention study that researchers hope will identify new strategies to stop individuals from killing themselves.

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Joan Guzik Joins United Hospital Fund as Director, Quality Improvement of the Quality Institute

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01/19/2017

Joan Guzik Joins United Hospital Fund as Director, Quality Improvement of the Quality ... New York, NY - Joan Guzik has joined the United Hospital Fund as director of quality improvement for the Fund...

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Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?

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09/14/2017

Research partnerships between business and academia have been happening for decades, but we’re seeing a lot of them crop up these days due in part to struggles for funding, with AI in particular driving some serious dollars to universities.

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Rockefeller Family Fund Names Julie Fernandes Associate Director for Institutional Accountability and Individual Liberty

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07/02/2018

Rockefeller Family Fund Names Julie Fernandes Associate Director for ... and Individual Liberty The Rockefeller Family Fund is pleased to announce that Julie Fernandes has joined ... with my new colleagues to...

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Simons Foundation Gifts UC San Diego Funds to Operate Simons Observatory in Chile to Explore Early Universe

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07/09/2019

Astrophysicists are trying to zoom in on massive clusters of galaxies which are difficult to see.

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Students with Influence Over Peers Reduce School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations

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01/06/2016

Curbing school bullying has been a focal point for educators, administrators, policymakers and parents, but the answer may not lie within rules set by adults, according to new research led by Princeton University.

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Arcus Foundation Funds a New Partnership to Reduce Poverty and to Protect the Endangered Bonobo Population In the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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05/21/2018

Village Enterprise and the African Wildlife Foundation announced a new partnership funded by the Arcus Foundation to reduce poverty and to protect the endangered Bonobo population in the biodiverse Lomako region of the Democratic Republic of the...

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Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Field Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments

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06/18/2018

A new field study called HOMEChem (House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry), funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in its Chemistry of Indoor Environments program, will analyze these chemical interactions with the...

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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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New York State Health Foundation-Funded Research Aims to Reduce Gun Violence in Rochester, New York

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11/06/2018

With more than $194,000 from the New York State Health Foundation, RIT’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts will form a program — Community Engagement to Reduce Victimization — to determine whether a victim of street...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Increases Investment in Funding Prison Education and Re-entry Programs

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06/13/2019

... Grants will be awarded to support the following projects ... Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Increases Investment ...

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Elon University Joins Multi-campus Collaborative Initiative Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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06/20/2019

Elon University has been selected to participate in a collaborative, community-based humanities and civic engagement initiative launched by the Bringing Theory to Practice project.