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Ford Foundation Funds Expansion of REACT to Film Educationl Programs

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10/08/2014

... workshops and teacher support. The Ford Foundation’ s goals, to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and ... human achievement, perfectly align with REACT to FILM’ s mission of educating youth on...

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Carnegie Praised for Preserving the Spirit of Philanthropy

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04/13/2015

... to the Carnegie Corporation to fund colleges and other schools . Imagine if John D. Rockefeller had not established ...

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Six City Workers Win Sloan Award for Outstanding Public Service

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06/02/2015

... who have tackled everything from the taming the city’ s rat problem to creating more healthy school lunches have ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Transgender Health Discrimination Study

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07/29/2015

... Massachusetts since the 2012 implementation of the state’ s gender identity nondiscrimination law. The study ...

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With Support from Atlantic and Hartford, Researchers Develop Novel 3-D Imaging Tool

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04/06/2016

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine NAFLD Research Center find MRE imaging provides highly accurate, less invasive method to detect disease.

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

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09/01/2016

In a perfect world, education experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers.

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Westchester Community Foundation's Rossi Leads Brainstorming Session for Healthy Westchester

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09/30/2016

Westchester Community Foundation' s Rossi Leads Community Brainstorming Session For Healthy ... Community Foundation... Westchester Community Foundation' s Rossi Leads Brainstorming Session for Healthy...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Releases Report Preparing RNs for Enhanced Roles in Primary Care

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09/30/2016

... issued a series of recommendations for leaders of nursing schools , primary care practices, and health systems on ... the potential for registered nurses to help meet today’ s urgent needs in primary care.....

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Eighth Graders Win $25K In Citi Foundation Entrepreneur Contest

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10/12/2016

Baltimore eight graders Anna Doherty and Hope Sacco won the 2016 NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge this week, presented by the Citi Foundation.

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Wallace Foundation Has Been Betting Big on Principals. What's It Learning?

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11/01/2016

Wallace Foundation Has Been Betting Big on Principals. What' s It Learning? With its education funding Wallace Foundation ... for developing principals. Before that was the funder' s $85 million...

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Mayor De Blasio Says City Has to Grow Taller and Denser Despite Anti-Development Attitudes As Population Rises

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11/02/2016

Relentless growth fueled by immigration, people arriving from other parts of the country and more residents simply staying put will push an already swelling population past the 9 million mark in the decade beginning 2030.

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The Bronfman Fellowship Announces 31st Application Season

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11/03/2016

The Bronfman Fellowship selects 26 outstanding North American teenagers for a rigorous academic year of seminars including a free, five-week trip to Israel in the summer between the fellows’ junior and senior years of high school.

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Supported by Carnegie, ALA Announces Winners of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award'

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11/30/2016

... from across the country were honored with this year' s I Love My Librarian Award. The winning librarians were .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports GallopNYC Acquisition of Horse Stables in Queens

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01/09/2017

... near Forest Park, Queens, operated for many years as Lynne' s Riding School, in Forest Hills, N.Y. The stable will be ... acquisition will allow considerable expansion of GallopNYC' s programs.....

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Rita Allen Supports Research That Identifies Source of Opioids’ Side Effects

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02/02/2017

A commercially available drug may help drastically reduce two side effects of opioid painkillers — a growing tolerance to them and a paradoxically increased sensitivity to pain — without affecting the drugs’ ability to reduce pain, according to a...

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Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness

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02/27/2017

... show that the Zika virus (ZIKV) can replicate in the eye' s retinal cells, causing severe tissue damage and even .....

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Commonwealth Fund Report Predicts a Detrimental Impact of an ACA Repeal on Jobs

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08/04/2017

A report by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and the Commonwealth Fund predicts bad news if Congress repeals the ACA. Research shows that the loss of 'ACA tax credits and Medicaid expansion would lead to a...

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Why Are Foundations Often Absent From Major Policy Shifts?

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08/13/2009

... going to be made to restore economic sustainability. Who’ s at the table helping us figure out how to make these ... agenda and develop—not just capture temporarily—human resources and talent to address that...

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JPMorgan Expands ‘The Fellowship Initiative’ To Help Disadvantaged High Schoolers Get Into Top Colleges

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06/21/2014

... and Los Angeles. The expanision is due to the program' s success so far in NYC. The program has 120 minority ... and outside the classroom,” said Jamie Dimon, the bank' s ceo and president. The...

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