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William T. Grant Foundation

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Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

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02/18/2016

... gene, neuromedin U (Nmu), also seems to serve as nature' s stimulant--fish lacking the gene take longer to wake up in ... term, the results suggest Nmu as a potential candidate for new therapies to...

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Health

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Revson Foundation Supports Steinem Program to Address Underrepresentation of Women In Media & Technology

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03/28/2016

... the sounding board she never had through the university’ s new Gloria Steinem Media Mentoring Program. The program ... the creative and complex ways information technology and new media are...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

Gender Justice

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PhilTV This Week: March 3, 2017

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03/03/2017

... Foundations Supports Climate Change Glossary NY Women’ s Foundation’ s Oliveira Offers Blueprint for Investing in Vulnerable Young ... Do You See Yourself In the First Nations Struggle? Name A New...

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Phil TV This Week April 14

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04/14/2017

... Countries Funded by the Educational Foundation of America, New Study Finds Potential for High-Impact Philanthropy ...

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What' s Needed Now? It is well known that one of the keys to a ... funders have spent many millions of dollars supporting new teacher preparation programs...

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

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11/01/2017

... Bard Prison Initiative. Now Bard College is launching a new satellite in another site that bucks tradition: the ... “The way we go about college access in the U. S . is a catastrophic failure,” said Max Kenner...

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15 Mar 2018

Imagining the Future: Pursuing Excellence in Family Philanthropy - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, March 15, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... only.* We invite you to participate in an exciting new program. NCFP is using the opportunity of this ... landscape, how do you see the field changing? What new tools, strategies and collaborative initiatives...

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Tools & Strategies

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Family Foundation

Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry

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12/18/2017

... The News Industry Women will lead the news industry’ s revolution. This will be a year of reckoning, the year a new wave of diverse news leaders shapes American journalism ... with the audience. The departures...

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Gender Justice

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Ford Foundation

Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... bound to a morphine derivative. They then created a new drug-like compound that activates only that receptor, a key step in the development of new pain medications. A release from the university notes .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Publishes Results of Largest Survey of American Mayors

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04/05/2018

... survey of mayors to date. The survey reveals that America' s mayors increasingly feel on the hook for addressing major ... time, more mayors say that their relationship with the new administration has...

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Community Development

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

... Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be ... Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor in the UW’ s Paul G. Allen School of Computer...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Technology

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Aetna Foundation and Newman’s Own Foundation Earn CyberGrants Ovation Awards

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06/27/2018

Aetna Foundation and Newman’ s Own Foundation Earn CyberGrants Ovation Awards ... Ovation Awards at the 2018 CyberGrants User Conference in New Orleans. The Aetna Foundation and Newman’ s Own...

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Salesforce Staff Ask CEO to Revisit Ties With Border Agency

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06/28/2018

... Executive Officer Marc Benioff criticizing the company’ s contracts with the U. S . Customs and Border Protection agency, the latest in a ... enforce Trump administration immigration policies at the U. ...

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Immigration

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Arabella Advisors Report Calls on Philanthropy to Catalyze Inclusive Investment

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03/04/2019

... color and women, a report from Arabella Advisors and the New Venture Fund argues. According to the report, An ... women, who represent 38 percent and 50.8 percent of the U. S . population, respectively, but...

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Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night

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04/05/2019

... Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night The new analysis of a 40-year record of more than 70,000 ... in light pollution in Chicago in recent years, the new findings show that more needs to be done,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Animal Welfare

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Leon Levy Foundation

Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Helps Fund Research to Find Personalized Treatment for Crohn's Disease

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05/03/2019

... Fund Research to Find Personalized Treatment for Crohn' s Disease To model human health and disease, organ-on-a-chip ... upstream initiator of gut inflammation. Now, thanks to a new $1.8 million grant...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research of Human Impact on Indoor Climate

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06/04/2019

... chemical processes that occur in the indoor climate. But new advanced equipment and new analysis methods enable us to map how emissions from ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

03 Mar 2021

DACA—Seizing the Moment - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 -

9:00am to 10:00am

... What are the updates on DACA protection proposed by the new administration What it will take to ensure that there ... and organizing infrastructure in place to respond to new and expanded DACA opportunities...

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