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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

Release Date:

11/30/2017

... at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study also found that excess ... said Zachary Ward, programmer/analyst at Harvard Chan School ’s Center for Health...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Freedom Together Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York Donates $1.5 Million for Disaster Relief

Release Date:

01/30/2018

Philanthropic support will focus on disaster recovery, legal aid, and needs of students in Puerto Rico, Miami, and Houston

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds New Research on the Energy and Environmental Implications of the Digital Economy

Release Date:

04/18/2018

... Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies , has received a ... Environment at UC Berkeley, and Reid Lifset from the Yale School of Forestry and...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

New Study, Supported By The Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, Finds College Brings Significant Benefits to Single Mothers and Society

Release Date:

06/06/2018

... to live in poverty than single mothers with only high school , with AAs also bringing big benefits, according to ... over their lifetimes than had they only completed high school . Single mothers' own...

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Research Funded By The Commonwealth Fund Shows Overdose Risk Quintuples With Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use

Release Date:

06/22/2018

... according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, published today in JAMA Network Open. ... Hernandez, Pharm.D., Ph.D., assistant professor at Pitt's School of Pharmacy and...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Staten Island, Conrad N. Hilton Foundations, New York Community Trust, and More Launch Campaign to Make NYC First in Nation to Offer Long-Term Support for Foster Youth

Release Date:

02/28/2019

... and tutors for current and former foster youth from middle school through age 26, a model that nonprofit foster care ... source of income, and only 22 percent had a high school degree or equivalent, according...

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Doris Duke Foundation

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The Staten Island Foundation

Equitable Recovery for All New Yorkers: The NY Stimulus Alliance

Release Date:

08/09/2010

... to track federal stimulus money coming into New York State , increase the transparency of the process, and maximize ...

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New York Foundation

Beyond the Rhetoric: Foundation Strategy

Publication date:

10/2007

... Are you? This groundbreaking research examines the current state of decision making at large, private, U.S. foundations. ...

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Report

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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TD Charitable Foundation Awards $2.5 Million for Affordable Housing

Release Date:

12/11/2012

Grants of $100,000 each were awarded through the foundation's seventh annual Housing for Everyone competition to nonprofits working to provide transitional housing and homeless shelters in the District of Columbia and twelve states where TD Bank...

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Community Development

Forget Spending Cuts, the U.S. Economy Really Needs a $2 Trillion Stimulus

Release Date:

03/05/2013

... 2007, the U.S. economy is still mired in a depressed state of output, and economic growth has decelerated below ...

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Sloan Foundation Announces 2013 Research Fellowships

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02/22/2013

Awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955, the 2013 class of fellows includes 126 researchers from 61 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.

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How our community colleges are falling behind

Release Date:

05/23/2013

The Century Foundation’s new report details the large socioeconomic, racial and funding divide between community colleges and elite institutions.

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Education

Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passes Legislature

Release Date:

09/12/2013

... Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, would make the state the first in the nation to mandate time-and-a-half pay ...

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Workforce Development

Groups seek changes in NY policy as hunger grows

Release Date:

10/14/2013

... Assistance Program. Meanwhile, AARP is asking the state to streamline its procedures to make it easier for ...

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Food Systems

Who's Been the Biggest Superstar in the Fight for Health Reform?

Release Date:

05/28/2014

[Atlantic Philanthropies] A few foundations stand out as heroes in the saga of health reform. Remember when Atlantic Philanthropies bravely committed $27 million to help win passage of the Affordable Care Act? Or when the Robert Wood Johnson...