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Doris Duke Supports Research That Discovered New T-Cell Subtype

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02/07/2017

... That Discovered New T-Cell Subtype A distinguished subset of T cells that combine with other defence cells to expostulate inflammation in marginal tissues has been found in dungeon samples...

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Health

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Atlantic Philanthropies, Commonwealth Fund and Other Foundations Take a Stand — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan

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03/20/2017

... on the GOP Health Plan Foundations that were instrumental in building the case for the Affordable Care Act seven years ... debate, is spending down its endowment on a variety of domestic and international...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Health

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Caroline Anstey Named COO of the Open Society Foundations

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04/21/2017

Caroline Anstey Named COO of the Open Society Foundations The Open Society ... announced that Caroline Anstey , formerly of UBS Group and the World Bank, will assume the role of...

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Russell Sage Foundation Invites LOIs for Immigration Research

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05/12/2017

... advance this mission, the foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for its Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie ... on Immigration and Immigrant Integration. Grants of up to $150,000 over one or two years will...

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Sloan Foundation-Supported Poll Finds Blacks Less Likely to Have Enough for Retirement

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05/18/2017

... security than whites and will rely on fewer sources of income during retirement. The retirement savings gap ... money from their families or receive income from the sale of a home or other physical assets...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center

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05/24/2017

... The ambitious new arts center known as the Shed, rising in Hudson Yards, has received $75 million from Michael R. ... much the Far West Side continues to be shaped by a small group of...

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Arts

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With Bloomberg Support, Rice University Researcher Maps “How to Succeed in College”

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05/31/2017

... Support, Rice University Researcher Maps “How to Succeed in College” What are common characteristics of student success in college? A team of researchers narrowed .....

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Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017

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07/06/2017

... Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017 High-achieving high schoolers will enjoy another season of study at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, thanks .....

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup

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08/01/2017

... the profits back to their causes, officials from the group said with a plan to announce the initiative later on ... public. ETFs give investors the ability to buy a basket of stocks or other assets with a...

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Fatherhood After 40? It's Becoming A Lot More Common

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08/31/2017

... If you've put off starting a family, you're not alone. In the U.S., the average age a woman gives birth to her first ... dads are getting older, too. In 1972, the average age of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting

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09/05/2017

Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting Scores of the nation’s major philanthropists will gather in New York next month to coincide with the United...

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Off-Broadway’s Golden Age Faces Financial Hurdles

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09/12/2017

... artists who try to make their living off-Broadway in New York City say this is a golden age for their small-scale brand of theater. But that doesn’t mean they are reaping ... seats, according to the Off-...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals

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09/25/2017

... NGOs or social entrepreneurs should do. But this week a group of foundations turned the lens on themselves to see what they can do to accelerate the scale of solutions to critical problems...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Buffett Says Government Should Do More to Combat Poverty

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10/04/2017

... a barrier success. "The American dream has succeeded in aggregate. We have failed, in my view, to create the equality of opportunity," Buffett said Tuesday at the national Purpose...

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Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site

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10/10/2017

... ethnic disputes and litigation have defined the trajectory of development in a section of Brooklyn that borders Hasidic Jewish, ... far promise a healthy fight. The project developer, Rabsky...

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Community Development

Open Society Foundations Funds the Mayor Exchange to Offer Help to Puerto Rico

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03/02/2018

... Mayor Exchange to Offer Help to Puerto Rico A new network of local leaders is stepping in to provide aid and support from cities on the mainland to ... backed by funding from the Open Society Foundations, the...

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Disaster Relief

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Funded by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Scientists Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching

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03/27/2018

... Scientists Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching A group of scientists developed a "sun shield" that they hope can ... bleaching, which spread across the Great Barrier Reef in...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Closing Space for Open Society

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05/17/2018

... Society, which gave $3.6 million to 46 different groups in Hungary in 2016, that the foundation announced this week ... and visible statement, but it is only one small part of a more complex...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Gene Editing Research to Identify Gene that Controls Butterfly Wing Color

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10/26/2018

... Color Heliconius butterflies are a diverse and colorful group of species that live throughout tropical regions of Central ... by scientists from the University of Chicago...

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