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Susan G. Komen Names Dr. Judith Salerno as President and Chief Executive Officer

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07/01/2013

... and is widely regarded for her expertise in medical research and healthcare policy, and for developing and ... years of proven leadership in public policy and research make her the right choice to lead all...

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Evan Michelson Joins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as Program Officer

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02/12/2014

... will also help manage the foundation’s support for basic research in the natural sciences, collaborating with the ... program supports original, high-quality, policy-relevant research that expands our...

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Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science

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03/15/2014

... Times article on billionaires privatizing American science research . Last April, President Obama assembled some of the ... rebuttal to deep cuts in federal financing for scientific research …. Billionaires With...

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Learning Forward Launches Free, Online Learning Guide to Enrich Principal Preparation Programs

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05/06/2014

... – based on PBS documentary and more than a decade of research , commissioned by The Wallace Foundation.“ Dallas ... from 13 years of work with school districts and from research on education leadership funded...

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Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions

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06/03/2014

... with enhanced coursework and training in objects-based research . To that end, COSI will work to increase student ... they need for positions in museums, libraries, and other research settings involving...

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NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods

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06/11/2014

[Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund] New York City's Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food in otherwise underserved high-density and low-income neighborhoods, influenced customers' consumption of fruits and vegetables, and...

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Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever

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06/16/2014

... kind the university has ever received— or marine life research . UH Manoa Professors Edward DeLongand David Karl, ... Division of Life Sciences that aims to advance basic research in life sciences. SCOPE hopes...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Elects Dr. Francine Berman to Board of Trustees

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01/22/2015

... Engineers. She is the Chair of the U.S. branch of the Research Data Alliance, a community-driven, international consortium working to accelerate research data-sharing and exchange. Dr. Berman is also Chair...

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Inside the Russell Sage Foundation

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04/15/2015

... dig into the inequities of the second Gilded Age, with research grants going to scholars across the country who've ... by academics, and it doesn't support advocacy. But its research has played a...

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William T. Grant Foundation-Funded Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying

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05/01/2015

... Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying New research suggests that the consequences from being bullied by ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Recognizes Pioneers for Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture in Rwanda

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10/05/2015

... as the winner of the 2015 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller ... with the $10,000 “Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the...

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The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

In more than a decade of research on nonprofit leadership, The Bridgespan Group has ... twice as often as the next concern. Our most recent research provides a clue as to why. Only 30 percent of ...

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Mellon Foundation Contributes to 'THATcamp' on Humanities and Technology

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04/21/2016

... – broadly defined as the use of technology in the research and teaching of humanities. The Central New York ... brief presentations on their technology-based teaching or research projects... Mellon Foundation...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2016 Scholars

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06/30/2016

... seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research holds great promise for revealing new pathways to ... annually for a maximum of five years to pursue innovative research on the development and...

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Simons Foundation Continues Quest to Understand and Treat Autism on Both Ends of the Spectrum

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07/19/2016

... autism in the U.S., the Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge (SPARK). The goal is to gather DNA ...

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Russell Sage Survey Finds Fear of Other People Is Now Primary Motivation for American Gun Ownership

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09/19/2016

A momentous shift in what kinds of firearms Americans are owning — and why — has huge implications for public health.

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

... 50 percent of their total effort to the direct conduct of research ... Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty ...

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Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel

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11/29/2016

... was funded by the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned ...

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UJA-Federation of New York Convenes Panel on Growing Poverty on Long Island

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01/30/2017

... Social Services. The Keynote was given by Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Social policy at the Hebrew ...

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NYCT's Kerry McCarthy: Trump Cuts that Hit Arts Will Also Hurt Health in NYC Neighborhoods

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04/04/2017

... studios improve the well-being of young and old. Now, new research by the University of Pennsylvania has analyzed and ... social impact of New York’s cultural organizations. The research shows that a...

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