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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2016 Scholars

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06/30/2016

... science whose research holds great promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health. The selected Scholars ...

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Video: Rockefeller's Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star and Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

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07/05/2016

Rockefeller' s Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star And Creator ... cast and ingenious composition but also for attracting new audiences to the stage and changing how we think about American history. The...

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Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley

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08/03/2016

... has been working to preserve land for decades, but a new grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is ...

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Ford and #ReasonsforHope Foundations Want You To Know They Make A Difference—Not Just Write Checks

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08/10/2016

... Make A Difference—Not Just Write Checks "HOPE." That’ s the one-word message at the center of a new awareness campaign backed by 39 charitable groups in ... concern that we all have in philanthropy...

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Russell Sage Foundation Papers Help Explain the Growing Wage Gap

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08/22/2016

... relative increase in womens' wages in previous years, that' s tiny. A new essay from researchers Martha J. Bailey and Thomas A. .....

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to University of Michigan to Endow Postdoctoral Humanities Positions

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09/12/2016

... Foundation funded these positions for six years. The new gift ensures the future of the fellows, providing the opportunity for recent Ph.D.' s with the time and financial support to prepare the major .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Contributes Funds for Online Tool to Reveal Commercial Fishing Activity Worldwide

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09/15/2016

... today launched the public Beta of Global Fishing Watch, a new online technology platform that allows anyone in the ... access to monitor and track the activities of the world’ s largest commercial fishing...

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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

... themselves to protect against attack by other people, a new survey of U. S . gun ownership by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern ... that there are an estimated 265 million firearms in U. S...

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

... MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’ s Farmers As a first-of-its-kind human-digital platform, ... Inclusive Innovation Competition (IIC) under the ‘ new models’ category, has reached 70,000...

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Food Systems

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Century Foundation Report Criticizes Student Loan Guaranty Agencies

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09/29/2016

... Agencies When the federal government stopped guaranteeing new bank-based student loans on June 30, 2010, it left behind ...

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Markle Foundation Study Finds Women in Sweet Spot of U.S. Economy

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10/07/2016

Markle Foundation Study Finds Women in Sweet Spot of U. S . Economy Women still earn less than men, but they've ... in jobs that require more social and analytical skills, a new study from the Pew Research...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative

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10/13/2016

... and their state and district partners to participate in a new $47-million initiative to develop models over the next ...

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Food Bank of South Jersey Receives $50,000 Child Hunger Impact Grant from Morgan Stanley Foundation

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10/13/2016

... services to low-income children in two Burlington County, New Jersey towns. The funding will permit FBSJ to provide ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500K to Support Solar Energy in Developing Countries

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10/20/2016

... million in grant funding in the past year. Funds from the new grant will support GivePower' s expansion into seven strategic sectors – education, .....

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Funded by Russell Sage, Study Finds Childhood Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year

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11/02/2016

... summer vacations, not during the school year, according to new research from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The ...

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Finding Common Ground on International Tax Reform

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11/17/2016

... broken. As a result, over $2.5 trillion in profits from U. S . companies are sitting overseas untaxed and underinvested. Reforming America' s international tax policies would help create a corporate .....

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Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust

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11/22/2016

... a renewal of the largest research gift in the Institute’ s 56-year history — that will be used to continue exploring ... Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine, which enables Salk’ s leading scientists to delve...

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Ms. Foundation President Writes in 'The Hill' About Protecting Water in Flint, Standing Rock

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12/08/2016

... Congress is poised to leave Washington, D.C. until the new year and has not yet approved funding to address the ... pipeline, the threat to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’ s access to clean water remains... Ms...

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Rockefeller's Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star and Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

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06/29/2016

... cast and ingenious composition but also for attracting new audiences to the stage and changing how we think about American history. On June 23rd, the production’ s creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda joined...

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