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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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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain -- The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will...

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In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence

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09/21/2017

In Diller Island’ s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence Just like ... the plug, withdrawing his and Diane von Furstenberg’ s funding for the project. The costs and controversy had ... billionaires and old...

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Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth

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09/22/2017

... first jobs, internships, business training and leadership development , Citi announced an expansion of the Pathways to ... of CA$700,000. This contribution is part of the Foundation' s investment of US$100...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’s Far West Side

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09/22/2017

Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’ s Far West Side Amazon.com Inc. plans to open an office on ... building that is part of Brookfield Property Partners L.P.' s new eight-acre development...

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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

Making Kids Into “Makers” The new annual Inventor’ s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative ... people in 17 countries participated in the Inventor’ s Challenge , a contest that asks kids from...

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Education

Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says

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09/27/2017

... the World Bank warned in its flagship annual economic development report. “Hundreds of millions of children reach ... even the most basic life skills,” write the report’ s authors, Deon Filmer and Halsey...

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How Many Big Storms Before People Abandon Coastal Cities?

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10/02/2017

... People love living near the coast. Only two of the world' s top 10 biggest cities — Mexico City and Sáo Paulo — ... and Buenos Aires — are. Around half of the world' s 7.5 billion people live within...

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No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?

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10/06/2017

... successful. Nearly two years later, not a single state’ s plan to comply with the federal education law—and its ... social-emotional learning seek to nurture students’ development in areas like self-management...

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

The recovery from the crisis of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so little growth created so many jobs.

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Wallace Takes Arts Organizations From What They Think to What They Know

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10/24/2017

... in October, NPQ reported on one of the foundation’ s studies on the subject of scaling. Broadway World alerts us to the foundation’ s Building Audiences for Sustainability (BAS) research ... base for many...

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The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy

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10/30/2017

The Rockefeller Foundation' s Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To ... Rebuild by Design — a design competition from the U. S . Department of Housing and Urban Development...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Discovers Smart Artificial Beta Cells Could Lead To New Diabetes Treatment

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10/30/2017

... beta cells" (ABCs) mimic the functions of the body' s natural glucose-controllers, the insulin-secreting beta .....

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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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Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico

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11/16/2017

... Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico Three major U. S .-based foundations on Wednesday pledged an initial $5 ... of homes and killed at least 55 people across the U. S . territory. "We have to...

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Route Fifty Recognizes Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities at Second Annual Navigator Awards

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11/17/2017

... and data practices and strategies has evolved into the development of a What Works Cities Certification program, ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico

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11/30/2017

The “Resilient Puerto Rico Advisory Commission”—announced on November 16, 2017—will be an independent and inclusive body led by Puerto Ricans and designed to offer recommendations for how to use private, philanthropic, local government, and federal...

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With Funding From The JPB Foundation, Cities Connecting Children to Nature, Engages Second Cohort of Cities in 2017-2020 Phase

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12/18/2017

The Lates phase initiative from 2017-2020 will engage a second cohort of cities in 2.75 years of technical assistance to develop and implement strategies that equitably connect children to nature, with support of $75,000 in planning and...

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Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”

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12/20/2017

Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’ s “Unified Approach” In an interview with the Funder’ s Forum, Wallace Foundation President Will Miller explains ... questions in its fields of interest (public...

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