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Arabella Advisors Report Finds Divestments from Fossil Fuels Top $5.2 Trillion

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12/13/2016

Investing heavyweights are moving their assets and funds out of fossil fuels at a record pace.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education On Tuesday nights beginning August 22 through ... affordable and provide non-traditional students the higher education they need to compete in...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Ford Foundation Supports "The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on Film" Series

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09/11/2015

... School of the Arts Office of Community Outreach and Education ... Ford Foundation Supports "The Devil Finds .....

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New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools

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09/20/2017

... to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-leaning education -focused think tank, in a study on teacher ...

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Study Finds Test-Score Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools

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10/04/2017

... schools. Released Wednesday by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, the study found ...

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Rita Allen Foundation Supports UC Berkley Research Findings that Could Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of Depression

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10/29/2019

Rita Allen Foundation Supports UC Berkley Research Findings that Could Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of ... Rita Allen Foundation Supports UC Berkley Research Findings that Could Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of...

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NoVo Executive Director Finds Correlation Between Domestic Violence and Other Violent Crimes in NYTimes Editorial

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02/04/2015

Pamela Shifman co-authored an opinion piece detailing the critical need to end violence at home.

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Gender Justice

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09 Jan 2020

Taking on the Big Issues: How Your Foundation Can Find Focus and Create Impact - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, January 9, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

As a funder looking to effect change within a largescale social, environmental, or economic problem, how do you decide as a family what you can do to make a difference?

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JPB Foundation Research Finds Advanced Energy Driving Job Growth in Renewables, Smart Buildings

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05/02/2016

Building on a state's strengths in advanced energy technology can maximize job growth and give a state a competitive economic edge, according to research from the American Jobs Project.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Freedom Together Foundation

Century Foundation Report Finds Out Why High-Risk Insurance Pools Still Won't Work

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03/01/2017

... high-risk pools often suffered from insufficient funding , constraints on eligibility, and gaps in ...

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Stavros Niarchos & Leon Levy Foundations Supported Research Finds Common Cerebral White Matter Abnormalities in Children with Autistic Traits

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09/06/2017

Researchers in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine found structural abnormalities in the brain's white matter match up consistently with the severity of autistic symptoms not only in children with autism...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

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04/25/2017

... overall economy would be much stronger if barriers in education , health and housing that adversely affect black ... at the Long Island Marriott in Uniondale to discuss the findings ... Long Island Community...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Moving Interprofessional Education into the Mainstream of Health Professions Education

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06/22/2012

... talks about the importance of interprofessional education —when students from different health care ... center dedicated to its practice. Moving Interprofessional Education into the Mainstream of Health...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Supported by Simons Foundation, Study Finds Genetics, Early Term Ultrasound Linked to Autism Severity

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09/02/2016

The data was derived from 2,644 families among 12 research sites across the United States.

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Supported by Sloan Foundation, Study Finds New Quantum Liquid Crystals May Play Role in Future of Computers

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04/21/2017

The Science study, titled "A parity-breaking electronic nematic phase transition in the spin-orbit coupled metal Cd2Re2O7," was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Research Office's Defense University Research Instrumentation...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Announces First Grant Recipients

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11/16/2017

... that seek to safely reduce prison populations, strengthen education and employment opportunities for formerly ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Arts

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Palette Fund Helps Launch TRUTH Campaign to Spur Storytelling Movement for Trans Youth

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08/05/2015

... three years ago, my wife and I had a hard time finding resources around trans issues and instead saw a lot of stigma ... a transgender child.” TRUTH, made possible with seed funding from the Palette Fund, will...

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Children, Youth and Families

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LGBTQ

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

Glioblastoma multiforme is a particularly deadly brain cancer. Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a key to how these tumor cells proliferate so quickly --and ways to turn this engine of tumor growth into a target for cancer treatment.

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