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Report Highlights 20 Urban Resilience Strategies In The Rockefeller Foundation-Supported Resilient Cities Network

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01/25/2017

... While cities committed to building resilience are actively working to boost their capacity to survive, adapt to, and ... HTML or 23 pages, PDF ), identifies four major areas of opportunity — water management,...

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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

... Opioid For the first time, scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and collaborators solved the crystal structure of the activated kappa opioid receptor bound to a...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2018 Award in Pain Scholars

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03/07/2018

... Scholars The Rita Allen Foundation has named Helen Lai of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Candice Paulsen of Yale University as 2018 Award in Pain Scholars, ...

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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

... The pre-consortium will identify unmet needs for the use of biomarkers in developing new treatments for people with Crohn's disease. Currently, a lack of regulatory-endorsed tools, such as biomarkers,...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

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02/14/2020

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture The University of ... W. Mellon Foundation . The four-year grant will support...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Don Chen New Director of Metropolitan Opportunity

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01/05/2015

Ford Foundation Appoints Don Chen New Director of Metropolitan Opportunity The Ford Foundation announced the appointment of Don Chen as director of Metropolitan Opportunity, which ... Studies...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Social Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announces New Vice Presidents

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09/11/2015

... and CEO Teresa C. Younger announced the appointment of two new vice presidents. Susan Wefald will join the Ms. ... for Women leadership team as the new vice president of programs. Josh Pushkin will join as the...

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Salesforce, Johnson & Johnson, and New York Women’s Foundation Harnessing Talent To Remake Workplace Giving

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04/02/2018

... with the quest for profit . Peeking under the hood, some of these projects are self-serving, and others just nibble at big problems that the funders themselves have had a hand in creating. But other ... funds...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Releases Global Research Reports on Strategic Time Horizons in Philanthropy

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01/22/2020

... time horizons are increasingly becoming the subject of thoughtful discussions within philanthropic organizations, ... and how they impact the overall approach and operations of donors and their institutions...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies 2020 Hindsights: Top 10 Lessons

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09/17/2020

... the foundation made. To create our “Top 10” list of hindsights and lessons, we looked back over 35 years of grantmaking, asking ourselves: What worked? What didn’t? ... often and that answer questions other...

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Changes to Philanthropy New York Staff: Nur Ibrahim and Katy Toolin Depart, Nicholas Collins Named New Executive Coordinator

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07/01/2013

... Financial Officer since 2008, has accepted the position of Director of Finance and Administration at Unbound Philanthropy . We ... meetings at the United Nations with UN staff, members of the...

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Debora L. Spar Joins the Board of the Markle Foundation

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09/03/2012

... has announced that Debora L. Spar has joined its Board of Directors. Dr. Spar is the current President of Barnard College, a private liberal arts college for women ... valuable as Markle continues to...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants Program

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03/27/2015

Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants ... The Aetna Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities grants...

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Farms in the Projects? (Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund)

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01/05/2016

... access to fresh produce in communities with high levels of poverty, food insecurity and diet-related diseases, while also serving as hubs for education , community engagement, and job training for ...

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Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)

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01/06/2016

Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford ... finances in the last 30 years: jobs, wages, benefits, education , technology, and financial products. We all know ... Diaries...

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Josiah Macy Foundation Supports Project in Integrated Care for Psychologists & Doctors

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02/03/2016

... Lauren N. DeCaporale-Ryan, PhD, works at the University of Rochester Medical Center, but her focus isn't on patients. ... and each other. "My role is different from that of anyone else I know in...

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As Schools Adopt Social-Emotional Programs, A New Guide Funded by the Wallace Foundation Offers Help

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05/17/2017

... Parents, teachers and students streamed into the library of Palo Alto’s Gunn High School on a warm evening this ... that calls for schools to do a better job for the hundreds of thousands of...

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Markle Foundation President and CEO Zoë Baird Writes About Where Amazon Should Build Their New Headquarters

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12/05/2017

... the digital economy. History has shown that the quality of a skilled local workforce and a state’s support for ... will help them gain a competitive advantage in the future of work, Amazon has a rare...

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Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts gifts University of Houston Rare Collection of Photos

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05/24/2018

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts gifts University of Houston Rare Collection of Photos Andy Warhol scholars and enthusiasts can now see and touch dozens of rare photographs by the...

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