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Feds Overrule New York's Natural Gas Pipeline Permit Denial

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09/18/2017

Federal regulators have overruled New York state's denial of a key permit for a pipeline expansion fueling a $900 million power plant under construction.

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Environment and Climate Change

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JCOPE Commissioners Again Rule Civil Liberties Group Must Disclose Donors

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09/21/2017

After a lengthy debate, a majority of the commissioners of the state’s lobbying and ethics watchdog panel again found on Tuesday that the New York Civil Liberties Union must disclose donors to its state lobbying efforts.

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Mellon Foundation Makes the Business Case for Humanities Education

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09/29/2017

Called the NH Humanities Collaborative, the effort is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant is the first of its kind pairing a community college system with a flagship public university and it explicitly recognizes and supports the...

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Economic Security

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Myanmar Rohingya Abuses May Be Crimes Against Humanity, UN Rights Experts Warn

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10/04/2017

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have called on the Myanmar authorities to immediately stop violence in northern Rakhine State, and to promptly...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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City Signs Exclusive Deal With Pharmaceutical Firm for Anti-Overdose Drug

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10/10/2017

The city and state announced Monday that they entered into an exclusive one-year deal with the makers of an anti-overdose drug to quicken the time it takes to get the medication into the hands of first responders.

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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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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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Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches Next Public Art Challenge for U.S. Cities

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02/15/2018

... paid off beautifully. According to Bloomberg’s math, the four winning projects based in Los Angeles; Gary, Indiana; ... and Troy in New York generated $13 million for those four places, both in terms of new...

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Arts

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5 Questions with PND and David Egner, President/CEO, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

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11/28/2018

... owner of the National Football League's Buffalo Bills. The four life trustees he appointed to lead the foundation ... within the lifetimes of the people who knew him best, our four life trustees, and that...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

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Rats Replay Memories Forward and Backwards to Make Decisions, Understanding the Memory Process Will Lead to Treatments for Diseases Where Memory is Impaired, Research Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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12/10/2019

... 8 hours, the rats formed separate memories of each of the four parts of a roundtrip journey—right to center, center ... sequence of brain cell firings from a memory of one of the four legs of their journey...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces Grants to NYC Health + Hospitals to Launch Virtual Behavioral Health Platform

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08/03/2022

... virtual urgent care platform, ExpressCare , and to test four new strategies to engage high-needs patients in ... the use of ExpressCare and plan, execute, and evaluate four behavioral health engagement...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Food Funders Working Group

... New Jersey, and Connecticut. We provide information, resources , and networking opportunities for funders to invest ... CFF also aggregates and disseminates information and resources to its members, provides a...

The Value of Rigorous Evaluation

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06/02/2014

... program assessment or evaluation. Unless we invest more resources in our capacity to measure the performance and ... undertake rigorous evaluation. It can be costly, diverting resources from the direct...

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Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green and Family Van Shares Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

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01/18/2017

... seamless! Philanthropic dollars, staff time, and end-user resources can be wasted through inefficient and ... funders can navigate upcoming policy changes and channel resources into advocacy. Cheryl Dorsey of...

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