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Open Society Foundation-funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way African-American Girls are Treated at School

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11/06/2015

Open Society Foundation -funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way ... and Educational Fund, Inc. and the National Women’s Law Center highlight how race and gender biases held by educators ... of white girls, and more...

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Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound Essential to Formation of Life on Earth

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11/07/2017

Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound ... phosphorylation agents for each process... Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound ...

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While Announcing Main Branch Renovations, NYPL Notes Mid-Manhattan Library to Be Renamed for Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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11/16/2017

... Mid-Manhattan Library to Be Renamed for Stavros Niarchos Foundation At a Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday ... infrastructure including a café and expanded shop; a new Center for Research and Learning that...

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

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11/30/2017

JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children ... Ward, programmer/analyst at Harvard Chan School’s Center for Health Decision Science and lead author of the ... and weight trajectories from...

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ ... of knowledge,” says André Fenton, a professor in the Center for Neural Science at New York University and senior ... memory or recollecting...

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Novo Foundation Launches New Website and Film Series,The Life Story: Moments of Change

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02/01/2018

Novo Foundation Launches New Website and Film Series ,The Life ... justice work. Learn more by visiting the website ." Novo Foundation Launches New Website and Film Series,The Life .....

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Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body

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02/06/2018

Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body ... two-step, kneejerk response that first widens the animal's center of gravity, and then strengthens and stabilizes...

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation , MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti ... is bent evenly from both ends, it will break near the center , where it is most curved. This initial break triggers...

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Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change

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09/10/2018

Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next ... them for climate change. Researchers from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at UC ... sustainable...

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NoVo Foundation Announce Support for Grassroots Organizations to Address Key Gaps in Local Communities' Responses to Human Trafficking

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11/05/2018

NoVo Foundation Announce Support for Grassroots Organizations to ... Alliance, and Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha ( Center for Workers United in Struggle). "Cities have a ... immigrants,...

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Century Foundation Launches New Public Policy Pop Up Think Tank - Next 100

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02/21/2019

Century Foundation Launches New Public Policy Pop Up Think Tank - ... who completed high school from inside a juvenile detention center , or a high school teacher with ideas about how to make ... but also...

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Zegar Family Foundation Supported Research Uncovers Genome-Wide Responses That Limit Crop Growth

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03/26/2019

Zegar Family Foundation Supported Research Uncovers Genome-Wide Responses ... Communications study, the scientists, working in NYU's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, addressed this ... key plant...

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Initial Funding From Ford Foundation, New York Community Trust Supports New Council on Criminal Justice

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07/23/2019

Initial Funding From Ford Foundation , New York Community Trust Supports New Council on ... advocacy organization whose founder bills it as a new “ center of gravity and crossroads” for criminal justice ... at all...

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

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10/20/2017

... as a patient access representative for University Medical Center -- and was hired, kick-starting her promising new ... public safety and housing affordability... Ford Foundation President Darren Walker...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards $2 Million in 2015 to Nonprofits Empowering Borough’s Vulnerable Youth

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11/23/2015

Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards $2 Million in 2015 to Nonprofits Empowering ... Borough’s Vulnerable Youth Brooklyn Community Foundation is pleased to announce 54 new grants from its ... serving Brooklyn...

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Arcus, NoVo Foundation Announce Groundbreaking Philanthropy Initiative to Improve the Lives of Transgender People

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12/08/2015

Arcus, NoVo Foundation Announce Groundbreaking Philanthropy Initiative to ... Trans Initiative will deploy grants and philanthropic resources totaling at least $20 million dollars to ... we are committed to...

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Newman's Own CEO Shares: What Paul Newman Would Tell Small Foundations in the Pandemic: Don’t Shift Course

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04/22/2020

... Course By: Miriam E. Nelson, acting CEO, Newman's Own Foundation The late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman ... profound question I take to bed: Should we redirect our resources to frontline responders...

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IFC and the Rockefeller Foundation Partner to Advance Distributed Renewable Energy Solutions in Emerging Markets

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06/22/2021

IFC and the Rockefeller Foundation Partner to Advance Distributed Renewable Energy ... of learning together so by combining the expertise and resources of The Rockefeller Foundation with the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford Foundation and Open Society Initiative for West Africa Launch New Fund to End Sexual Violence in West Africa

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12/02/2021

Ford Foundation and Open Society Initiative for West Africa Launch ... societies and shrouded in a culture of silence. Limited resources and attention to the challenge by development ... organizations to address...

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