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Jonas Center Support For Online Tutorials Helps Healthcare Students

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06/17/2014

... Nursing have made available a new series of online lessons to supplement the learning of healthcare students, ... launched an international competition last fall to identify content creators interested in...

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Barnard Receives Mellon Grant for Digital Access Initiative

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07/09/2014

... next four years, this program will allow Barnard faculty to collaborate with curators, archivists, and collection ... at New York City cultural and scientific institutions to co- develop...

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Three Named Winners For Best Green Business Ideas In Western Balkans

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07/31/2014

... for Green Ideas competition, a program it co-sponsors to encourage business ideas that will contribute to a better, more sustainable life for people in the Western ... Each of the three winners will be awarded...

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GIH Elects Jacqueline Martinez Garcel to Board of Directors

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12/04/2014

GIH Elects Jacqueline Martinez Garcel to Board of Directors Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to announce that Antony Chiang, Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, Garth Graham, and Brenda Sharpe have been elected...

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Rauch Foundation Study Shows Lack of Housing Options in Long Island

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01/09/2015

... for a region whose future economic strength will depend to a large degree on developing that mix. Long Island has ... recipe of single-family homes on which the region rose to global prominence, but 21st-...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College

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01/29/2015

... the traditional culinary classes offered at many schools to provide students with a broad overview of food policy, ... environment, health, science and business. It aims to prepare them for jobs as technicians...

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Metlife Launches ‘The Financial Inclusion Challenge’ to Improve Financial Access in Asia

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03/20/2015

Metlife Launches ‘The Financial Inclusion Challenge’ to Improve Financial Access in Asia One of the key impediments to more equitable economic development in Asia is inadequate access to formal...

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HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

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05/05/2015

... Have we unconsciously consigned the American Dream to the proverbial dustbin? Many of us might be too preoccupied with incidental, even trivial issues to notice what's happened. Even so, most of us --...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Overcome Cancer Drug Resistance

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05/19/2015

Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Overcome Cancer Drug Resistance The Gerstner Family Foundation gift will support a two-pronged approach to the problem of cancer drug resistance: one based in the...

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State Authority Wants $1.5 Billion for Renewable Energy Boost

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06/04/2015

... would go toward funding major renewable projects meant to increase the state’s production. The proposal now heads to the state Public Service Commission, which has the ability to require a...

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MetLife Foundation Partners with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to Help Financial Service Providers Better Serve Low-Income Clients

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06/05/2015

... Foundation Partners with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to Help Financial Service Providers Better Serve Low-Income ... Advisors (RPA) and Bankable Frontier Associates, LLC (BFA) to develop...

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Rockefeller Foundation Commits $64 Million to 100 Resilient Cities

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07/29/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Commits $64 Million to 100 Resilient Cities The Rockefeller Foundation has announced an additional commitment of $64 million to the 100 Resilient Cities network and the launch of its .....

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Carnegie-Backed Study Explores Adolescent Girls' Knowledge of HPV and Sexuality in Western Uganda

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09/02/2015

... new cases of cervical cancer and about 274,000 deaths due to the disease occur annually. More than 80% of these deaths ... of cancer deaths among adult women. This is projected to increase to...

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Finds Possible New Target for Glaucoma Therapy

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09/11/2015

Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Finds Possible New Target ... have elucidated a genetic interaction that may prove key to the development and progression of glaucoma, a blinding ... optic nerve damage...

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NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability

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11/09/2015

... of this remarkable place. My colleagues and I traveled to Bristol Bay in 2008 to encounter firsthand the land and people put in harm’s ... of such indescribable beauty. Beyond pledging not to...

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Surdna-Funded Report Suggests Better Language, New Approaches to Community Wealth Building

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11/11/2015

... Report Suggests Better Language, New Approaches to Community Wealth Building When it comes to economic development, what images and feelings come to mind when you hear the phrase, “attract...

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Ford and Luce Foundations Support Scholars Bringing Fresh Eyes to Well-worn Topics in SE Asia

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11/23/2015

... and Luce Foundations Support Scholars Bringing Fresh Eyes to Well-worn Topics in Southeast Asia When it comes to writing about the long-contentious issue of hydropower ... and anti-dammers engage and make...

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MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab

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12/08/2015

... an initiative that will apply behavioral economics to identify new ways to help millions of Americans improve their saving and ... colleges, employers and other nonprofit organizations to...

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Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research

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12/09/2015

... Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research Simons Foundation and Autism ... into an agreement with the National Institutes of Health to align two of the world’s largest...

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