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Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

... this new organization with a mission of reducing the harm from smoking. Angry responses to this announcement came from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other ...

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International/Global Affairs

Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... climate of crackdowns on immigration and increased raids from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Many ... to Houston Police Department data, sexual assault reports from the Latinx community dropped...

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Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... is so narrow that you could easily hurl a polished rock from one bank to the other. But ever since a century-old ... have required amending the State Constitution, with voters from Rochester to Ronkonkoma...

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Environment & Sustainability

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As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

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10/18/2017

... plants in the United States, one telling headline came from the Courier-Journal in Louisville: “New York City ... country and the climate movement by shifting emphasis away from shutting down coal plants and...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund

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10/27/2017

... 1 diabetes (T1D), has announced a $5 million commitment from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. ... January with $32 million in seed funding from JDRF, the fund manages more than $60 million...

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Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

Release Date:

11/02/2017

... to wear your password on your sleeve? Computer scientists from the University of Washington can make it so. A research ... digital data, including ID tags and security keys, into electrically conductive...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Encourages Donors to Give Where They Live with $100,000 Match

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11/20/2017

... Chamber of Commerce, and sponsored by TD Bank with support from National Grid. To encourage Brooklyn residents to ... on Giving Tuesday campaign raised nearly $275,000 from more than 900 donors... Brooklyn...

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... the resettlement of "at least a million immigrants from Africa and the Middle East annually on the territory of ... by EU member states; the redistribution of immigrants from Western Europe to Eastern...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

Release Date:

02/07/2018

... building and sustaining highly successful institutions – from the Poetry Center at Smith College, to a major ... African American Studies department at Yale University, from the poetry non-profit Cave Canem,...

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The United Hospital Fund Releases Report on Positive Impact of Home Health Care

Release Date:

04/30/2018

... refuse home health care services when they are discharged from inpatient care. Such refusals can lead to higher rates ... refused home health care services. Their reasons ranged from concerns about finances,...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty

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05/07/2018

... Faculty Duke University has landed a $3 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to grow its ... builds on a previous initiative – also funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation – known as...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Grantee Develops New Crowd-Sourced Initiative in the Disability Field

Release Date:

05/22/2018

... the images we see in the media. The images we see are far from real, and far from enough. Let’s change that. Oath, the National ...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes

Release Date:

11/07/2018

... of the study. “The microbial communities are seeded from microbes coming from the animals and their food in an aquarium that does not tap into the ocean. But these looked like natural marine...

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Environment & Sustainability

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Ford Foundation Gives $300,000 to Pérez Art Museum Miami’s New Latin American Latinx Art Fund

Release Date:

11/27/2018

... announced today that it has received a $300,000 gift from the Ford Foundation in support of its newly-launched ... of the Americas and this fund will ensure that artists from Latin American... Ford Foundation...

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12 Sep 2019

Exiting Responsibly: Making Wise Choices As You Wrap Up - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, September 12, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... this webinar will provide valuable ideas and tactics. Hear from field experience how to navigate this complex and challenging status. From determining whether your foundation should exist in ...

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New Research Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Finds New Biomarker for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Release Date:

01/29/2019

... Biomarker for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department ... and Visual Sciences , along with collaborators from the University of Iowa, have...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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New York State Health Foundation Publishes Review of NY State Laws Regarding Surprise Bills

Release Date:

02/26/2019

... emergency department services billed dropped from 20.1% in 2013 to 6.4% in 2015, according to a study from researchers at Yale University cited in the report... ...

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New York Health Foundation

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SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition

Release Date:

02/21/2019

... SIFMA Foundation’s Fall 2018 InvestWrite competition. From P/E ratios and ROIs to retirement planning and asset ... knowledge of investing enabled this impressive senior from Concord High School in Concord, to...

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Tribeca Film Institute Announces 2019 Sloan Filmmaker Fund Grantees

Release Date:

04/04/2019

... of compelling science, economics, and technology.” From filmmaker Andrew Reid, “Asia A” portrays a college basketball player who suffers from a spinal cord injury, and must either accept his life as ...

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