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Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A.

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04/15/2014

... a nationwide grass-roots network to motivate voters who feel strongly about curbing gun violence, an organization ... need to learn from the N.R.A. and punish those politicians who fail to support their agenda...

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Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans

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09/18/2014

... Happy with ObamaCare Plans A majority of people who signed up for ObamaCare over the last year are happy with ... up, according to a new poll. About 70 percent of people who bought healthcare plans through...

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Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators

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12/04/2014

... teaching immigrants in the South Bronx and a teacher who raised test scores despite students being displaced by ... Wednesday. The sixth-annual Sloan Awards recipients, who have been teaching math or science...

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NoVo Foundation Celebrates International Women’s Day

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03/09/2015

... day, we are inspired by stories of amazing girls and women who are standing up to injustice and demanding a better ... married before the age of 18. Of the 4.5 million people who are victims of sexual...

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United Hospital Fund Explores the Struggles of Family Caregiving

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07/31/2015

... and philanthropy organization in New York. “For those who provide long-term care for years and for those with ... family relationships have been well documented,” Levine, who wasn’t involved in the study, said...

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Verizon Supports Immersion Program to Teach Girls to Code

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09/01/2015

... on NJIT's campus that was the culmination of the Girls Who Code summer camp. “You can change the world because ... learned to code,” said NJIT President Joel S. Bloom, who joined N.J. Sen. Cory Booker,...

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Rauch Foundation Announces ‘Imagine Awards’ for Disabilities Inclusion

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01/20/2016

... Awards gala in 2001, with a goal of celebrating those who work to create a community where everyone belongs on ... deeds of three more local individuals and businesses who make dreams come true: David...

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Inaugural All Female Festival Launches In New York

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05/09/2016

... millennial women. The Other Festival showcases the women who are redefining how to do business, setting their own ... boundaries. Inventors, storytellers, founders, artists who can't be boxed in. The...

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Council on Economic Education Seeks Applications for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Teaching Champion Award

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05/12/2016

... at the K–12 level by recognizing and honoring teachers who effectively deliver this important content in and out of ... and achieve results. To that end, CEE seeks applicants who instill in students an...

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Latin American Director at Open Society Foundations Comments on Rio Olympics Human Rights Abuses

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07/19/2016

... replay, human rights activists warn. Pedro Abramovay, who worked for the Brazilian government until 2011, said ... of corruption and inequality,” said Mr. Abramovay, who now works for Open Society Foundations...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014

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07/20/2016

... report by the Commonwealth Fund also reveals that insurers who did the best selling Obamacare plans had average profits of only around 8.5 percent, while those who fared the worst financially had steep losses...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin is One of Many Women Making Their Mark in Social-Impact Investing

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07/27/2016

... focuses on social impact investing. There are the women who founded firms focused on impact investing, including Andrea Turner Moffitt, who started Plum Alley Investments; Patricia Farrar-Rivas, a ...

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Novo Foundation Supports Transformation of Former NYC Prison Into 'Women's Building'

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11/16/2016

... Just ask Gloria Steinem and other feminist activists who searched for decades before finding a building to house ... and hoping to find one for 40 years," said Steinem, who co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972...

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New York City’s Top Science And Math Teachers Honored With Prestigious Sloan Awards

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12/07/2016

... mathematics teachers in New York City public high schools who achieve superb outcomes and promote a love for science ... in science, math and other STEM fields. The seven winners, who were chosen from...

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Rockefeller Foundation Picks Rajiv J. Shah, a Trustee, as President

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01/05/2017

... next president. He said no. Instead, Mr. Shah, who until recently had been the administrator of the United ... will name Mr. Shah to succeed Judith Rodin, who has been president for 12 years... Rockefeller...

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Alarming Number of Young Girls in Mexico Are Forced to Marry, Ford-Funded Report Finds

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05/04/2017

... had left school, while a staggering 92 percent of those who left school are living informally with a man. And only 15 percent of Mexican girls who dropped out of school were not in such relationships. . . ...

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Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss

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05/24/2017

... a mother or daughter, from a bat's social network, females who previously built up more friendships with non-relatives ... with their loss. They score more food than do female bats who only invest in...

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