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New York State Health Foundation Publishes Study on Doctor-Drugmaker Relationship

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06/13/2018

... gifts and meals from the makers of addictive opioid drugs in 2014 and 2015 prescribed more opioids than their peers who ... they are paid or are they paid after they prescribe more? In this case, we wanted to...

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Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Named a National Treasure by National Trust

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06/19/2018

Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’s Childhood ... Trust Nina Simone is truly one of my great inspirations in life. Through grace, beauty, hard work, and perseverance ... from Tyron, North Carolina...

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Through Its Piper Fund Initiative, The Proteus Fund Works to Educate Communities About Judicial Independence

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06/21/2018

... negative impact, the general public is often unaware of how crucial an independent court system is to their own ...

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Research Funded By The Commonwealth Fund Shows Overdose Risk Quintuples With Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use

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06/22/2018

... Risk Quintuples With Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use In the first 90 days of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine ... of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, published today in JAMA Network Open. The U.S. Centers for...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Funds Research for Eye Implant

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07/09/2018

... developed an implantable pressure sensor that can reside in the human eye for years at a time while wirelessly sending ... novel packaging and microelectronic technologies, and in close collaborations with...

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06 Aug 2018

The Supreme Court Nominee and the 2018 Elections - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, August 6, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... voting rights (including partisan gerrymandering), money in politics, executive power issues, partisan the ... of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Explore: How this nomination relates to various issues...

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Funded by the Carnegie Corporation, New Digital Tool Gives Parents a Gut Check on Their Childs Readiness for the New School Year

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08/07/2018

... help parents and guardians have a better understanding of how well their child has learned foundational skills that they need to succeed in the next grade. The Readiness Check was designed in...

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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 ... and hold it at both ends. Now bend it until it breaks. How many fragments did you make? If...

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Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Announce Grants for US 2050 Initiative

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08/21/2018

... fiscal trends that will shape the nation at mid-century. In the coming decades, a transformational wave of foreseeable ... will look very different by 2050. What isn 039 ;t clear is how...

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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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01 Oct 2018

Capturing Election Momentum for Building Power - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, October 1, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... solutions to help bridge the post-election bust How to retain grantee capacities Presenters DaMareo Cooper , ... Please click on the & quot ;Register Now& quot ; link above. Dial- in...

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National Braille Press to Honor the Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation with its Hands-On! Award

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09/25/2018

... Gala on November 7, 2018, at historic Fenway Park in Boston. The Hands On! award is given to an organization or individual who has made a difference in the world of braille literacy and whose accomplishments...

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McNulty Foundation & Aspen Institute Announce the 2018 McNulty Prize Winner, Mehrdad Baghai and High Resolves

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11/01/2018

... students against hatred and galvanize them to take action in their communities. Co-founded with his wife Roya, High ... South America. “Around the world, we are seeing a rise in hateful discourse in...

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JPMorgan Chase Commits $6 Million to Prepare Greater Washington Area Students for Local, In-Demand Jobs

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12/06/2018

... to Prepare Greater Washington Area Students for Local, In -Demand Jobs JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced $6 ... and help meet the growing demand for skilled workers in the Greater Washington region. As...

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Scientists Develop a New Tool to Boost Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Research with Support from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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12/06/2018

... Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new tool described as a ... guide the skin cells along a known path that will result in a new liver. Without this cellular...

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09 Apr 2019

Service for Impact - Effective Strategies in Aligning Employee Engagement and Business Priorities

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 -

8:45am to 11:00am

The Service for Impact Working Group, rooted in the principles of Reimagining Service , provides an ... and explore new opportunities to make a difference in society while supporting business objectives through...

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New Paper From Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Perella Weinberg Partners Finds Investors Can Pursue Impact Without Sacrificing Returns

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02/20/2019

... for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which features heavily in the new publication, It’s More Than Just Talk . This ... aligned investing that PWP is working to demystify. In debunking the misconception that...

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Century Foundation Launches New Public Policy Pop Up Think Tank - Next 100

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02/21/2019

... are the most diverse, engaged, and progressive generation in history. Whether organizing online, protesting in the streets, or running for office, they are joining ... center, or a high school teacher with...

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Research Funded by Leon Levy Foundation Finds Climate Change Is Leading to Unpredictable Ecosystem Disruption for Migratory Birds

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03/06/2019

... scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology say that, in as little as four decades, it may be very difficult to predict how climate change will affect migratory bird populations and ... ecosystems they...

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Zegar Family Foundation Supported Research Uncovers Genome-Wide Responses That Limit Crop Growth

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03/26/2019

... That Limit Crop Growth A team of researchers has tested how each gene within the genome of rice--one of the world 039 ;s ... of water and nutrients. Its findings, published in the journal...

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