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Weinberg Foundation Announces Grants as Part of $3M Summer Funding Collaborative

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03/30/2016

... The Funding Collaborative involves ten of Baltimore' s largest charitable funders: the Abell Foundation, the Annie ... Public Charter School • Baltimore Corps • Paul' s Place • Baltimore Curriculum...

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

... Eye Institute in JAMA Ophthalmology found that the U. S . prevalence in visual impairment (VI) and blindness is ...

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Health

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Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature

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02/17/2017

Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator' s BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature ... equality in the basic institutions of civic life — schools , housing, health care, policing — remains...

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ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide

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03/16/2017

... Certification Guide The ASPCA and Vermont Law School’ s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) are ...

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Animal Welfare

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

The Army Infantry’ s First Women The Army has sought to play down the ... the steamy woods from those of earlier generations. That’ s just how the Army wants it. After the Obama ... exceptions for infantry boot...

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Verizon Foundation: Innovative Learning Program Addresses Lack of Women in STEM Careers

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07/24/2017

... low. Men make up 80 percent of the tech industry’ s global workforce. Facebook’ s workforce is only made up of 27 percent women, while Google’ s is 31 percent. Enter Verizon, which is...

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Sloan Foundation Supported Survey: Work Can Be Stressful, Dangerous And Sometimes Great

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08/14/2017

If you think your job is more stressful than it should be, you're not alone. Americans work hard, and it takes a physical and mental toll, not to mention that it frequently cuts into personal time, according to a comprehensive survey on working...

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Workforce Development

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Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board

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09/22/2017

... community board members, including Schott Foundation’ s Edgar Villanueva. Edgar is a nationally-recognized expert ...

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The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy

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09/27/2017

... And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy There’ s been no shortage of news stories over the last several ...

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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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10/02/2017

The growing popularity of fried chicken and pizza in parts of Africa underscores how fast food is changing habits and expanding waistlines.

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Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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10/02/2017

... American and Pacific Islander students in K-12 schools and on college campuses have not met since President ...

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Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

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11/02/2017

... of Washington can make it so. A research team led by UW’ s Shyam Gollakota has demonstrated a method for encoding ... Quebec City at the Association for Computing Machinery’ s User Interface Software and...

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Anisa Kamadoli Costa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. Is A Vogue "2018 Game Changer"

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03/15/2018

... As the woman driving and directing Tiffany & Co.’ s global sustainability agenda, Anisa Kamadoli Costa works across the iconic company’ s partnerships in both for-profit and non-profit sectors. In .....

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Access to Economic Opportunity for Delaware Students

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05/03/2018

Bloomberg Philanthropies has provided a $3.25 million grant to Delaware Pathways towards improving access to economic opportunity for Delaware students.

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Economic Security

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The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Study Shows Museum Field Trips Impact Learning

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09/28/2018

The Samuel H. Kress Foundation support a study that shows that facilitated classroom visits to an art museum have a measurable impact on key aspects of student learning.

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Laura Rossi, Executive Director, Westchester Community Foundation, Featured in 2022 Westchester Power 100 List by City & State

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09/28/2022

... Westchester Power 100 List by City & State City & State’ s Westchester Power 100 highlights many of these prominent ... fighting food insecurity, $250,000 to Saint Joseph’ s Medical Center to expand...

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Keesha Gaskins to Lead Democratic Practice–United States Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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01/15/2014

... Gaskins as Director of the Democratic Practice program' s U. S . portfolio. Beginning in January 2014, Gaskins will be ... issues, and Executive Director of the Minnesota Women’ s...

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Marc Benioff to Dedicate Salesforce Tower With Speech on Civic ‘Priorities’

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05/22/2018

... Salesforce Tower when it officially opens Tuesday. He’ s got more down-to-earth things in mind for the dedication speech he’ s set to give. He’ll be talking about solving homelessness ... Lynne, have donated...

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