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House Gives Approval to $36.5 Billion Disaster Aid Package

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10/13/2017

... a $36.5 billion disaster aid package Thursday to help states and U.S. territories rebuild in the wake of ... federal disaster funds and jump start recovery efforts in states like Florida and Texas and U.S...

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Sloan Scholar Says Funding will Open Doors in Materials Science Field

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11/09/2017

The Sloan Scholars program, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, provides funding for underrepresented students to pursue doctorates in mathematics, science and engineering.

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund Announces 2017 J.M.K. Innovation Prize Winners

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11/17/2017

... J.M. Kaplan Fund put out a call to anyone in the United States with a promising solution to a social problem. The ... selected from 1,193 applications representing 49 of 50 states . At a time of profound...

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Why Bloomberg Philanthropies Focuses on Teacher Salaries as A Key Component to Education Reform

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04/30/2018

... with median pay at only $45,000. Teachers in some other states — including Oklahoma, where teachers are now ...

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Findings from Century Foundation Report Lead Higher Education Advocacy Charge in California

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06/01/2018

Among the recommendations of an April report from the progressive think-tank The Century Foundation was a call to shift the focus of the Cal Grant program from covering tuition costs to helping students meet the full cost of attending college.

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19 Feb 2019

True or False Solutions to Climate Change

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... initiatives are in play nationally and in the states that respond to the dramatic change called for by the ...

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Macquarie Group Announces Winners of the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award

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08/27/2019

... of social need. The winners are: Last Mile Health (United States ) Monash University (Australia) Murdoch Children’s ... Research Institute (Australia) Social Finance (United States ) The Ocean Cleanup (...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants More than $26.4M to Fund Nearly 200 Ultrasound Imaging Devices Across Minnesota and Train Sonography Workforce

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03/21/2023

... as point of care ultrasound (POCUS) began in the United States . Ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to produce ...

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Jayson Jarushewsky Returns to Stonewall Community Foundation Board

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07/02/2012

The Stonewall Community Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Jayson Jarushewsky has rejoined the board. Jarushewsky first became involved with Stonewall in 1999, joining the Board of Directors shortly thereafter.

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A New Agenda for a Post–Health Reform Landscape

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09/12/2013

Learn about The Commonwealth Fund's new grantmaking and research agenda.

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Rockefeller Foundation Leverages Federal Spending for Disaster Relief

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12/04/2014

... and what they can do is very tightly controlled by laws and appropriations from Congress and by oversight of the ...

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Valerie S. Peltier Elected Chairman of The New York Community Trust

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12/04/2014

NYCT has appointed Valerie S. Peltier Chairman of the Distribution Committee.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Addresses Road Safety Issues in Mumbai

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02/23/2015

... five years and technical support to strengthen road safety laws and other measures. The organisation spent as much in ...

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OSF Grants $8 Million to Immigrant Advocacy Programs

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06/09/2015

President Obama's undocumented immigration initiative has been halted in the face of legal issues.

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NoVo Foundation Picked by Cuomo to Create New York City Women's Center

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10/27/2015

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration picked the NoVo Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, to redevelop a former prison in New York City into a building for groups that advocate women’s equality.

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David Berg Foundation Supports New York Historical Society Exhibition that Traces the Rise of Anti-Semitism in Germany

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02/17/2016

... the “Jewish Question,” and a printing of the Nuremberg Laws denying Jews the basic rights of citizens that laid the ... After consolidating its rule, it passed the Nuremberg Laws , systematically codifying anti...

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Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers

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04/13/2016

A bill would compel the city to enforce labor rules for nannies and home health aides.

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Poll Supported by Ford Foundation Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence

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08/08/2016

... groups. Stiffer penalties for violating existing gun laws are supported by 9 in 10 young adults, including about 9 ...

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Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration

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02/03/2017

For weeks, Donald Trump ran his presidential transition out of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. Now that he has been sworn in as president, he has made the move to the White House – and he’s taking part of New York with him.

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NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing

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04/17/2017

Last week, the foundation announced that it would commit $1 billion to investments that “earn not only attractive financial returns but concrete social returns as well,” as it said in a news release.

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