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Novo Foundation Partners With Southern Black Girls & Women’s Consortium to Support Growing Movement for Black Girls in the Southeastern U.S.

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10/16/2018

... Southeastern U.S. The NoVo Foundation today announced a new partnership with the Southern Black Girls & Women’s Consortium, a new collective of funders, activists and community leaders ... Black Girls...

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Gender Justice

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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

... scaffolds construct in nature can help prospect for new classes of antibiotics through DNA sequencing and genome ... in St. Louis. “In the long term, we really need new structural classes of antibiotics that...

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The Burke Foundation Awards Support to Help Young Children and Families Thrive

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01/21/2021

... the fourth quarter of 2020 to non-profit organizations in New Jersey working to improve prenatal and child health. New Jersey has one of the country’s worst records for child ... and resilience of children and...

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Education

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Investment in Light Rail Program Helps Create Jobs, Stimulate Economy

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06/17/2014

... Rail Program Helps Create Jobs, Stimulate Economy A new light rail line--called the "Green Line"-- that connects ... years ago, developers have announced over $2.5 billion in new construction and...

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Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline in Women in Workforce

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07/28/2014

... States who are working or want to work has been declining, new evidence suggests that one way to stem the dip would to be mandate policies like paid leave. A new report from the White House Council of Economic...

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Gender Justice

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The Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing President Obama's Executive Actions

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05/07/2015

... need.” This declaration represented the start of a new wave of policymaking through executive action by the ... In a report released today by The Century Foundation, The New Era of Executive Action: How...

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Terry Fulmer Takes the Helm as President of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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06/11/2015

... John A. Hartford Foundation and taken up her role as its new president, the Foundation announced today. Dr. Fulmer ... researcher, teacher, administrator, and innovator to her new position, and is deeply...

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Aging

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Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation

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08/17/2015

... of Wassaic to serve as the philanthropic foundation’s new Director of Programs. “Cecilia has worked for the ... said Foundation President Andrea Reynolds. In her new role, Ms. Stancell will work with the...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Supporting NJ Food Banks

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12/07/2015

... on food banks, equivalent to about 46.5 million people. In New Jersey, the ratio is smaller but still significant — ... with Bank of America, the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, the Food Bank of South Jersey...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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01/13/2016

... Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness) A large new study reveals previously unknown risk factors associated ... become cone-shaped over time. The last decade has brought new treatment options, but many...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Rauch Foundation and Others Publish Report that Quantifies Long Island’s Housing Needs

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02/05/2016

... HR&A Advisors Inc., and the Rauch Foundation released new research this week highlighting the high demand for ... possible strategies for creating an adequate supply of new housing. The study found that...

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Housing and Homelessness

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When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)

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02/29/2016

... fitness app. It's a grant proposed in President Obama's new budget, reviving an idea that hasn't gotten much policy ... intended to make their schools more diverse. As a new pair of reports from...

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Education

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

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07/25/2017

... Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second ... affects male and female children differently, according to new analysis of a decades-old study on...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... Online Archive It is always a cause for celebration when new archival history resources go online — especially for ... sometimes obscure history. Brooklyn history buffs have a new source of information (and...

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Arts

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Opinion: The Urban Revival Is Over

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09/05/2017

... two may be in danger. As it turns out, the much-ballyhooed new age of the city might be giving way to a great urban ... white flight. Unlike their parents and grandparents, these new urbanites embraced the...

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Community Development

JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth

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01/23/2018

... regulatory and business environment. Through this new investment, the firm will develop hundreds of new branches in several new U.S. markets, increase wages and benefits for hourly U.S. ...

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Nina Stack Joins Champlain Foundation as Executive Director

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04/17/2018

... Stack, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, has led the New Jersey Council of Grant Makers as its president for the ... remarks: “We are thrilled to have Nina joining us as our new executive director. … Her...

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Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300m

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04/16/2019

... Chief Executive Officer Rob Acker will head up a new nonprofit and educational business vertical at Salesforce ... company’s Customer Success Platform. In addition, the new business unit will also develop...

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Technology

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Basketball Legend Join Forces for Youth Empowerment and Establish Field of Life

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12/18/2019

... legend Panagiotis Giannakis introduced Field of Life, a new nonprofit organization and initiative anchored in ... potential, and enhancing their lives in an innovative new recreational, educational, and...

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