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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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Immigration

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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.

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Initial Funding From Ford Foundation, New York Community Trust Supports New Council on Criminal Justice

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07/23/2019

New justice group aims to provide ‘Center of Gravity’ for reform.

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Americans’ Salaries Can’t Keep Up With Rising Medical Costs

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10/26/2016

Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Americans’ Salaries Can’t Keep Up With ... . A report being issued Wednesday by The Commonwealth Fund , a nonpartisan research foundation, found that premiums ... doctors’ visits and...

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WES Mariam Assefa Fund and the Tarsadia Foundation Announce the Opportunity Challenge: $1 Million to Uplift Immigrant Communities

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03/10/2020

WES Mariam Assefa Fund and the Tarsadia Foundation Announce the Opportunity ... -- The World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund and the Tarsadia Foundation today announced a ... said Monica Munn, Senior...

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Immigration

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.

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