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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

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04/27/2017

The program is designed to give select nursing and medical students exposure to strategies, skills and programs that are being successfully implemented in settings they are likely to encounter in the field.

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Carnegie Grant Helps Princeton Team to Use Virtual Reality to Help With Real-World Arms Control

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08/28/2017

Efforts to reduce nuclear stockpiles soon may get a boost from a team of Princeton University researchers and a socially responsible gaming company that are seeking to use virtual reality to help improve systems to discover and monitor nuclear...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Scientist Asked To Remove ‘Climate Change’ From Grant Blames ‘The Ongoing Politicization Of Science’

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08/29/2017

A Northeastern University researcher who was asked to remove any reference to climate change from her Energy Department grant proposal said Monday that she had posted the letter publicly “because I found it to be a stark reminder of the ongoing...

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Advancing The Mental Health And Well-Being Movement Through Grant Making: Engaged Philanthropy

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10/02/2017

Investing in the health of a nation requires thoughtful deliberation and vision. Grantmakers, especially those with a focus on health, play a unique role in helping support community innovation that can advance health.

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Mellon Foundation Grant to USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to Support Digital Collection for Dance Heritage

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06/08/2018

Thanks to a $560,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation under its Arts and Cultural Heritage program area, the USC Libraries and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance will create a new home for a rich collection of recordings of more than 1...

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes School Choice for Inner-City Students

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02/10/2017

High school choice policies attempt to improve the educational outcomes of poor and minority students by allowing access to high schools beyond neighborhood boundaries.

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William T. Grant and Sloan Foundations Support Study That Finds Good Sleep Promotes Postive Experiences, Less Conflict

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02/17/2017

Researchers in the Department of Biobehavioral Health (BBH) at Penn State found that sleep quality and quantity at night is affected by that day's stressors, and sleep hours and quality affect daily stressors the next day.

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UJA-Federation Has Launched A Grant-Making Contest, Asking New Yorkers to Vote on “Big Ideas”

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06/26/2017

UJA is awarding $250,000 to advance one “big idea” to transform how people in NYC live together as a Jewish community — one that’s welcoming, inclusive, and brings our city closer together.

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Social Innovation Fund Awards $11.3 Million Grant to LISC to Expand Education, Career Services for Low-Income Individuals

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08/04/2015

Citi Foundation, MetLife Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Capital One are funders of the initiative.

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Public-Private Partnership With Ford, Surdna, Niarchos, Bloomberg, Mellon, and Rockefeller Award Placemaking Grants Totaling $11 Million

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12/09/2016

... Bloomberg, Mellon, and Rockefeller Award Placemaking Grants Totaling $11 Million ArtPlace America, a ... community planning and development, has announced grants totaling $11 million to twenty-nine creative...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant Helps Launch AGU Ethics and Equity Antiharassment Initiative

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07/12/2019

AGU has been awarded a 3-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch the AGU Ethics and Equity Initiative: Catalyzing Cultural Change in the Sciences with New Resources and Tracking Tools.

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William T. Grant Foundation Welcomes New Program Officer, Anupreet Sidhu, Ph. D

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02/02/2023

... review letters of inquiry and full proposals for research grants , enhance the Foundation’s existing research ...

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Making NY Fairer for Black Families: New York Community Trust grants back school, health, and housing reforms

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11/06/2019

... NY Fairer for Black Families: New York Community Trust grants back school, health, and housing reforms Compared to ... NY Fairer for Black Families: New York Community Trust grants back school, health, and...

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William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans

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09/19/2016

A new study of 150 black youths from some of Baltimore’s lowest-income neighborhoods shows that young people who attended for-profit institutions ended up in more debt and with fewer job prospects.

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W.T. Grant Funds Research on How Technology Use Affects At-Risk Youth

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05/03/2017

More use of technology can lead to increases in attention, behavior and self-regulation problems for adolescents already at risk for mental health issues, new study finds.

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Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation

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05/23/2017

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation. The new generation of school choice policies adopted in response to legal decisions may actually be increasing school inequalities,...

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Toshiba America Foundation Awards High School Students Grant to Support Yeast Experiment

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02/16/2018

A science experiment by Stamford High School students is getting ready to launch into space.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces More Than $8 Million in Grants to Strengthen the Clinical Research Pipeline

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08/19/2014

... Charitable Foundation Announces More Than $8 Million in Grants to Strengthen the Clinical Research Pipeline The ... announced the recipients of more than $8 million in grants through the Clinical Scientist...

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Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants Program

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03/27/2015

... of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants Program The Aetna Foundation is pleased to announce ... of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities grants program. In recent years, the...

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