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Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens

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04/14/2017

... including applicants with experience in modeling or theory development . Applicants should have received their Ph.D. or equivalent degree within two years of the fellowship’ s start date and may be citizens of...

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Supported by Capital One, Bloomberg and Other Funders, Apache Recognizes Innovations Integral to Panama Papers Investigation

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04/17/2017

... Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server the world' s most popular Web server software. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) .....

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Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation's Investment Committee

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04/24/2017

Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation' s Investment Committee The Nathan Cummings Foundation is ... announce the appointment of Lisa Green Hall to the Board’ s Investment Committee as an...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

... students. The largest single grant in the law school' s history includes $7 million to establish and endow the ... sector, academia, social entrepreneurship, or community development ; $5 million for the...

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Bloomberg Backed “Global Street Design Guide” Now Available Free Online

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05/22/2017

... guide was first released last October after two years in development by the Global Designing Cities Initiative, a ...

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Health

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Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

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06/07/2017

... In 2015, the United Nations laid out its Sustainable Development Goals to track global progress against massive ...

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Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News

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06/28/2017

... News Combating fake news and bolstering the public’ s trust in journalism is the aim of a Vanderbilt research ... Fund. After a call for entries in March, the John S . and James L. Knight Foundation, along with...

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Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!

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07/19/2017

... Our PLACES Fellowship is a transformational leadership development experience that gives professionals in ... and communities of color. The deadline to apply for TFN' s 2018 PLACES Fellowship is Oct. 31,...

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... explore such issues as the unevenness of food supply, the development and spread of tastes, and the socially cohesive ...

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Food Systems

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Can Humanities Grants to Universities Be a Bridge to Something Bigger? Mellon Foundation Backs Humanities

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07/31/2017

... Backs Humanities The humanities are on a roll. Perhaps it' s some perverse byproduct of the Trump effect, but recent ... funders increasingly view the humanities as something that' s not simply...

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Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed

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08/08/2017

... outside contractors to handle some or all of the course development , marketing and back-office management of the programs. That' s even true of Harvard University, which announced a ... Higher Education...

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

... stays true to its roots as its popularity grows. The U. S . Impact Investing Alliance recently announced the creation ... Council is made up of organizations that support the development of impact investing,...

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Carnegie Grant Helps Princeton Team to Use Virtual Reality to Help With Real-World Arms Control

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08/28/2017

Efforts to reduce nuclear stockpiles soon may get a boost from a team of Princeton University researchers and a socially responsible gaming company that are seeking to use virtual reality to help improve systems to discover and monitor nuclear...

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How to Improve Diversity in Corporate America

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08/29/2017

... has gone beyond Silicon Valley and Google’ s gender problem. The current impersonator-in-chief would ... in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and community development . Moreover, the geopolitical business...

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Declaration Of Principles Across Hockey Takes NHL Where Other Pro Leagues Ought To Go

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09/08/2017

... commissioner Bill Daly tasked Pat LaFontaine, the league’ s vice-president of hockey development and a member of Hockey Hall of Fame, with leading ...

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As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and Communities

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09/12/2017

As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’ s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and ... missed the original intent of President Donald Trump’ s news conference in New York last month— the one in which ... highways,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’ s Green City Force Growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Edna ... who earns $17 an hour. In this episode of NationSwell’ s eight-part minidocumentary series on service years...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough

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09/19/2017

... first streetcars started rumbling along New York City’ s streets in the 19th century, people have sought ways to ... we know it—the subway may be a broken mess now, but it’ s one of the biggest catalysts in...

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Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

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09/19/2017

Williamson Foundation’ s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership This ... by Dr. Ronald Heifetz and colleagues at Harvard’ s Kennedy School, as a form of reflective practice. Marc ... created a...

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