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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/29/2017

... to Refugee Settings Humanitarian assistance relies on a charity model of providing immediate relief in emergency ... part of a decade in the country, and are still living on the margins, neither benefiting...

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Simons Foundation Releases The Eternal Sky, Part 2: The Hunt for Inflation

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10/05/2017

A new short film, the second installment in a series produced by the Simons Foundation, chronicles the work of scientists developing the Simons Observatory. The film traverses the globe, from the barren Atacama Desert in Chile to the sunny beaches...

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Environment and Climate Change

Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times

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11/02/2017

... degree from Columbia University and spent a year on Broadway in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the ... black sheep,” she said during a pre-rehearsal breakfast on a recent weekday. She discovered theater...

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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... Currently, most opioids bind to several opioid receptors on the surface of cells, and this is one of the main reasons ...

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Newman's Own Foundation Reaches Milestone of $500 Million to Charity

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02/01/2018

... these core values as an anchor and inspiration to carry on his philanthropic work." In the first full year when .....

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Rauch Foundation Releases Report, Minding the Gaps, On Early Childhood Development

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02/01/2018

Rauch Foundation Releases Report, Minding the Gaps, On Early Childhood Development That waiting-room ... Docs for Tots. Lombardy says it has helped her pick up on several cases warranting closer attention. Like...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces the 2018 Sloan Research Fellows

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02/15/2018

... mark them as among the very best scientific minds working today. A full list of the 2018 Fellows is available ...

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NYCT's Patricia Swann and Kerry Mccarthy Write About the Power and Possibility of the ‘Black Panther’ Moment

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03/06/2018

... have the opportunity to see themselves and their potential on the big screen. But to truly make the most of the Black ...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2018 Award in Pain Scholars

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03/07/2018

... period of up to three years to pursue innovative research on mechanisms that initiate and propagate pain in the nervous ... investigators to conduct research specifically focused on pain. Scholars have gone...

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Online Data Journalism Hub Funded by OSF Is Set To Launch

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03/12/2018

... and media innovation — but oftentimes, people working in the field find themselves spread across different ... Pecquerie, GEN’s CEO, “Collaboration, or what we call on the platform ‘matchmaking,’ is the core...

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Communications/Media

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces Move to 100 Percent Mission-Aligned Investing

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03/13/2018

... their mission. The Nathan Cummings Foundation is focused on creating a more just, vibrant, sustainable and democratic ... said NCF President Sharon Alpert. “The problems we are working on –...

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Propel Capital’s Sarah Williams Honored by The Center for Court Innovation

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03/19/2018

... honorees were: MaryAnne Gilmartin of L&L MAG, who served on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform ... He noted that the Center has “many identities” based...

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How to Improve Health Care for Veterans - Letter to the NYT Editor from New York State Health Foundation's David Sandman

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04/04/2018

... veterans get their health care, policymakers should focus on improving the quality of care for veterans, wherever they ...

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Elizabeth Good Christopherson of the Rita Allen Foundation and Adam Falk of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Join the Alliance Board of Directors

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04/06/2018

... members. As members, the foundations will be represented on the Alliance’s board of directors. Elizabeth Good ... as president of the Sloan Foundation at the end of 2017, on the Alliance board. The complete...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards Critical Path Institute a Grant to Focus on Crohn's disease

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04/16/2018

... Trust Awards Critical Path Institute a Grant to Focus on Crohn's Disease he Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ... Crohn's disease patients. The pre-consortium will focus on identifying Crohn's...

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Mac Aids Fund Lends Its Support to Some of the Most Beautiful Moments in Angels in America

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04/17/2018

... of the Most Beautiful Moments in Angels in America Early on in Angels in America, Prior Walter, a young man dying of ...

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

New Study Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Identifies Nature's Strongholds

Release Date:

04/23/2018

... Hall, a Conservancy climate change ecologist who worked on the study. New Study Funded by the Doris Duke ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

Release Date:

04/27/2018

Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.

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08 Nov 2018

Tech Tools: Virtual Site Visits, Data Analysis, and Board Activities - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, November 8, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Family philanthropies in 2018 have the opportunity to leverage a wide and growing variety of technology to improve our philanthropic work. Every day there are new inventions that you can use to engage further with your community, track success, and...

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Family Foundation

Salesforce.org Launches Philanthropy Cloud That Could Transform Corporate Giving

Release Date:

05/31/2018

... , companies can manage all their philanthropic efforts on one network, easily connecting with employees about CSR ... to bring those same principles to philanthropy.” Work on Philanthropy Cloud started in...

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