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Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Now Accepting Applications for the 2017 Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research

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10/03/2016

... high-risk/high-reward research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking. Now entering its fourth year, the highly ...

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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

The Fund for the City of New York announced the seven recipients of the eighth annual Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Education

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New York Community Trust Supports Artists at Museum of Arts & Design

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03/03/2017

Funded by the New York Community Trust and introduced to the Museum by its Education Department in 2016, the fellowship provides talented, culturally underrepresented rising artists with financial support and a dedicated studio at MAD for full-time...

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The New York Community Trust

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05 Jun 2017

New York Foster Youth Funders Group - Summer Meeting

Monday, June 5, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... Funders Group is a peer network of grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of foster youth in New ... foster youth in New York, as well as share our own funding priorities. Philanthropy New York...

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Children, Youth and Families

Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows

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08/30/2017

Enrolling in Success Academy boosted test scores for some of its earliest students, according to a new study conducted by research firm MDRC.

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Education

EPA Now Requires Political Aide’s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... in grants the EPA distributes annually, assigning final funding decisions to a former Trump campaign aide with little ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

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09/05/2017

The chief scientist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is typically a low-profile job in any presidential administration. But President Trump's nomination of his former Iowa campaign manager for the post is raising concern in the scientific...

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USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals

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09/06/2017

... of 55 doctoral candidates and 52 postdoctoral scholars. Funding is made through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food ...

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Will the Trump Era Transform the School Lunch?

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09/06/2017

On a sweltering morning in July, Sonny Perdue, the newly minted secretary of agriculture, strode across the stage of a convention hall here packed with 7,000 members of the School Nutrition Association, who had gathered for their annual conference.

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NYC and Studio Team Up to Keep Music Industry Humming

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09/07/2017

... New York recording studio, bolstered by $6 million in city funding . The recording industry has been shrinking globally ...

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Arts

Democrats Look To Trump On DREAM Act After He Puts Expiration Date On DACA Program

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09/11/2017

President Trump appears to be in the mood to make deals with Democrats — and Democrats see an opportunity to protect young immigrants.

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Immigration

The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... Irvine, Calif.-based mortgage lender Network Capital Funding Corp. opened an office in Miami to scoop up an ...

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JP Morgan Chase Investing $40M in Chicago's Underserved Neighborhoods

Release Date:

09/15/2017

JPMorgan Chase wants to do for Chicago's South and West sides what it has begun to do for Detroit. The nation's biggest bank, and also the largest in Chicago, is committing $40 million over the next three years to help rebuild and re-energize parts...

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J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Private Foundation Services

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The Questionable Ethic of an Opt-Out for Recurring Donations: A Caution for Nonprofits

Release Date:

09/15/2017

Forget the fact that the nonprofit in question here is the Committee to Defend the President; its practice of automatically signing donors up for recurring donations has, according to BuzzFeed News, landed it in trouble with its donors, who are...

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Northeast Needs Trump Commitment to Gateway Project

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... and job growth, the president has yet to commit to federal funding for half of the $30 billion Gateway project, which ...

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Community Development

Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

Describing the results as “disappointing,” Harvard University reported on Tuesday that its $37.1 billion endowment earned an 8.1 percent return for its most recent fiscal year.

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New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity

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09/26/2017

An EU-funded index measuring biodiversity in food production is expected to be launched next year, giving investors a benchmark for assessing how companies and governments are making food systems more resilient to climate change.

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Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum

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09/27/2017

In a rare example of high-level cultural philanthropy from Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial elite, Jerry Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, have pledged $25 million toward a $90-million transformation project of the Asian Art...

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MTA May Cut Back On $836M Emergency Subway Repair Work If De Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... the subway from collapse may get scaled back for lack of funding , the head of the MTA said Wednesday. Metropolitan ...

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