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Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser

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02/21/2018

... a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. As the team reports in a paper published online in December in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing ...

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New York State Health Foundation Funded Study Finds Most NY Health Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans

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03/01/2018

... percent of the physicians and other health care providers in New York State are equipped to provide timely and quality care to veterans in the community, according to a new RAND Corporation study. ... more...

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

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03/13/2018

... said NCF President Sharon Alpert. “The problems we are working on – like the climate crisis and growing inequality ... a growing number of foundations aligning their investments in companies and strategies...

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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

... Foundation, will join the Alliance board of directors. In addition, Adam Falk, the new president of the Alfred P. ... force behind the conception and founding of the Alliance in 2012, and served actively on...

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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

... Lends Its Support to Some 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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New Study Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Identifies Nature's Strongholds

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04/23/2018

... provinces, Ontario and Manitoba, were also included in the analysis. Scientists used computerized geographic ... the entire Midwest region that extends from Lake Erie in the east to the edge of the Great...

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

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04/27/2018

... video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in . Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has ... said co-author Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor in the UW’s Paul G. Allen School of...

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Salesforce.org Launches Philanthropy Cloud That Could Transform Corporate Giving

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05/31/2018

... the dog-eared volunteer sign-up sheets that are posted in the breakroom. Or the email that mentions the Google Doc ... Cloud, a new social impact network built by Salesforce.org in partnership with United Way...

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NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund

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06/13/2018

... million—up from $20 million committed originally — in Radical Hope Fund grants to 19 organizations from among ... doing bold and transformative social justice work in the United States and around the world. “...

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UJA-Federation of New York Raises Record-breaking $249 Million in 2017-2018 Campaign Year

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07/27/2018

... of New York Raises Record-breaking $249 Million in 2017-2018 Campaign Year UJA-Federation of New York raised ... 2018, an increase of $11.2 million from the previous year. In addition to raising $156.1 million...

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United Way of New York City Names Gina Goodenow as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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08/15/2018

... organization's first female to take on this role in its 80-year history. Gina joined United Way of New York City in 2016 as the Vice President and Controller of Finance. As ... accounting and non-profit...

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

... Spaghetti Mystery If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a single ... out another stick and try again. Can you break the noodle in two? If not, you’re in...

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Former VP for Grants at the New York Community Trust and Beloved PNY Member, Joyce Bove, Has Passed Away

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08/16/2018

... 15, 2018 at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Joyce was born on August 27, 1950 in Medford, MA to the late Frank and Grace Bove. She...

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United Philanthropy #ForumCon18 Highlights

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09/07/2018

Watch videos from the Forum’s largest annual conference yet!

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Rockefeller Foundation Names Tariq Khokhar Managing Director and Senior Data Scientist

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09/13/2018

... 1,000 applicants and led to over $7 million of investment in early-stage and scale-up projects to improve the way data ... “Tariq brings a unique combination of expertise in data and tech, longstanding...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Rockefeller Brothers Fund Join Coalition of 29 Philanthropies to Pledge $4 billion To Combat Climate Change

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09/17/2018

... Announced during the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on Friday, the commitment represents a broad ... innovation, and support organizations around the world working to protect the planet. The...

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Michael R. Bloomberg and Ray Dalio’s OceanX Announce Over $185 Million for New Partnership to Increase Ocean Exploration and Protection

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10/29/2018

... Partnership to Increase Ocean Exploration and Protection In a video message at the 5 th Annual Our Ocean Conference in Indonesia, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action Michael R. ... drives towards the shared...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Funded Research Solves Genetic ‘Whodunnit’ for Cancer Gene

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11/09/2018

... the nutrients they need to grow. The work, which appeared in Cell Metabolism on November 8, 2018, suggests that blocking AMPK in some conditions could stop the growth of advanced tumors in...

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United Hospital Fund and New York State Health Foundation Release New Report: Difficult Decisions About Post-Acute Care and Why They Matter

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11/19/2018

... experience serious illness. Each year, approximately one in five hospital patients in the United States, including some 300,000 New Yorkers, require such care— in rehabilitation centers,...

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