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To Get to the Good, You Gotta Dance With the Wicked

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09/19/2013

Four nonprofit leaders — including Gail B. Nayowith, founding Executive Director of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund — respond to a recent SSIR article on how the nonprofit sector sets its goals and achieves impact.

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Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

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05/17/2014

Cathy Schoe of Commonwealth Fund quoted in New York Times article on doctor's salaries.

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Searching for the Next Breakthrough in Health Care

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05/05/2014

The Commonwealth Fund launches the Breakthrough Health Care Opportunities program to discover and vet transformative ideas in health care.

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods

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06/11/2014

[Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund] New York City's Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food in otherwise underserved high-density and low-income neighborhoods, influenced customers' consumption of fruits and vegetables, and...

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Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal

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08/14/2014

Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor of Mathematics and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a longtime associate of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, has received the Chern Medal, one of the world’s most prestigious...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $8.7 Million for T1D Research Program

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03/30/2015

... care and translate new therapeutics; and cultivate new funding sources to ensure the program’s sustainability. The ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal

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07/06/2015

... — a pay-for-performance vehicle that leverages private funding to finance public services — the Adolescent ...

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HSBC Cuts Links With Big Muslim Aid Charity

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01/04/2016

Global bank HSBC has halted services to international humanitarian agency Islamic Relief, allegedly over concerns that the nonprofit's funds could end up in the hands of terrorist groups, Economic Times writes, citing reporting by London's Sunday...

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Doris Duke Study Finds Promoting Abstinence, Fidelity for HIV Prevention Is Ineffective

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05/03/2016

In a study of nearly 500,000 individuals in 22 countries, researchers could not find any evidence that these programs had an impact on changing individual behavior.

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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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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Launches New CT Scanner Initiative for Rural Hospitals

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10/28/2016

... Program has launched the CT Scanner Initiative, a new funding opportunity for qualifying hospitals in Iowa, ...

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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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Bank of America Grant and Volunteers Support Partnership with Eva’s Village

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01/25/2017

Eva’s Village, a Paterson, NJ, anti-poverty, nonprofit organization, partners with local businesses and community groups to raise funds for its 20 integrated anti-poverty programs.

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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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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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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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