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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

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NY Stem Cell Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science

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03/06/2015

... career ladder compared to those of men. The 2015 IWISE Working Group Meeting was supported by a grant from the Doris Duke ...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Backs Panel to Explore Ways to Keep Women in STEM Fields

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03/23/2015

... engineering and math. The 28-member Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering Working Group hopes to “ensure that women not just enter science, ...

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

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06/05/2015

... Pays Off for Nonprofits The first investment by a group of New York Foundations that decided to pool their ... at Doran Jones, a business that will place an office on the site.... 'Investment Club'...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Carnegie Launches Great Immigrants: The Pride of America

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07/02/2015

... every July 4th. Join us by exploring an inspiring group of well known naturalized citizens from all walks of ... read the latest news from our grantees and other partners working to foster citizenship and...

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Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley

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08/03/2016

... to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley The non-profit group Scenic Hudson has been working to preserve land for decades, but a new grant from ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Fast Company Names James Anderson of Bloomberg Philanthropies 'The Most Creative Person of 2017'

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05/16/2017

... at Bloomberg Philanthropies, where he oversees a group of programs dedicated to helping city leaders around ...

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Robert Sterling Clark Adopts Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and Garners Thousands of Positive Comments from Nonprofit Community

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08/22/2017

... of feeling weary and hopeless, I read and re-read this on a grant application . . . Robert Sterling Clark Adopts ...

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

... MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group shows that nearly 50% of companies have changed their ... a combination of innovation in the value chain and a focus on target customer segments that...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

... President of OxFam America. Maxman was among a diverse group of people working on poverty eradication who contributed to a recent roundtable ...

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... thorniest policy issues in the food system. The diverse group came from 12 states, one U.S. territory and Washington, ...

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Food Systems

The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

... bells. WNYC and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom focused on guns in America, took a look at the growth of law enforcement DNA databases. Click on the audio above to hear our story, and click here to read ...

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Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... program. The press was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review ...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Rising Rate of Uninsured People

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05/02/2018

... Rising Rate of Uninsured People The Commonwealth Fund on Tuesday released a survey of working -age Americans that found that 15.5 percent were ... and March 2018. That’s up from 12.7 percent of that ...

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Ford Foundation Provides Initial Funding for Black Feminist Fund

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03/25/2021

... for Black Feminist Fund The Ford Foundation announced on Thursday that it’s providing US$15 million to help ... each other,” McHarris says. There is also no comparable group looking at connecting this kind of...

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Eight Cities Receive Grants To Reduce Number of Uninsured Children and Families

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07/14/2014

... Pa. Providence, R.I. Savannah, Ga. NLC's Institute for Youth , Education and Families is coordinating the Cities Expanding .....

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Children, Youth and Families

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Russell Sage Foundation Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives To Four-Year College Degrees

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10/23/2017

... mania, as if tests were the key to success.The nation’s education system has become an SAT rat race in which youth are judged on where they fall on the bell curve of test...

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William T. Grant Foundation Awards Three Year Grant to Cornell University to Study Opioid Use in Rural Upstate New York

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04/11/2018

... that may reduce the risk of opioid abuse for low-income youth and families, according to the Cornell University Media ... "We will not only generate cutting-edge research on this important topic, we will...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New Study Commissioned By Staten Island Foundation Reveals Disparity on North Shore

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09/18/2018

... Commissioned By Staten Island Foundation Reveals Disparity on North Shore The North Shore of Staten Island faces disparities in housing, income, education and access to essential services when compared to .....

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The Staten Island Foundation

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McNulty Foundation & Aspen Institute Announce the 2018 McNulty Prize Winner, Mehrdad Baghai and High Resolves

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11/01/2018

... Resolves is bringing immersive, experiential citizenship education to thousands of youth across Australia, North America, Asia and South ... “High Resolves is tackling these pressing issues head on...

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