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Sloan Foundation Contributes to Study on 'Superbugs'

Release Date:

09/07/2016

... pose a major public health threat. Some officials have even warned of a post-antibiotic -- and sicker -- era. To better understand the problem, researchers have been piecing together its contributing factors...

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Teagle Foundation President Offers Advice to Campus Officials Meeting With Foundations

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12/14/2016

... even foundation presidents. For the past three years, I have been a foundation president myself. Thus, I have seen such meetings from both sides now. For campus officials looking to improve their...

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Education

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Centro de Economía Creativa and Mellon Foundation Announce "Maniobra" in Puerto Rico

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05/02/2022

... Puerto Rican artists play critical leadership roles within their communities, yet often live in a state of financial ... artists, writers, and performers means granting them the resources they need to pursue...

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Mellon Foundation

New Report from The Century Foundation: 11.4 Million Workers Facing Jobless Benefit Cliff Starting March 14

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02/10/2021

... Congress acts swiftly, 11.4 million workers will lose their unemployment benefits between March 14 and April 11 of ... especially dire for the 39.5 percent of the unemployed who have now been out of work for...

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04 Dec 2025

Reimagining Justice: Global Lessons, Local Action & Featuring The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper

Thursday, December 4, 2025 -

5:00pm to 8:00pm

... Following in Nelson Mandela’s footsteps, 67 graduates have earned law degrees from prison, and two are now ... of how communities across Africa are developing their own responses to similar challenges...

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20 Jul 2017

Time of Opportunity: Best Practices in Summer Learning (Part 1)

Thursday, July 20, 2017 -

9:00am to 12:30pm

... academic achievement gap between low-income students and their higher income peers, and one of the strongest ... gaps How summer learning can be best structured to meet student needs What sorts of publicly and...

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10 Dec 2020

Uncovering Dyslexia, NYC’s Literacy Crisis and its Effects Across Systems

Thursday, December 10, 2020 -

9:00am to 10:30am

Education, particularly literacy, should unlock opportunities. Instead, most literacy programs used in American schools leave more than half the students struggling to read. It perpetuates the loss of human potential. The picture in New York City,...

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With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans

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05/05/2017

... Plans Americans age 50 and older who report that they have been incarcerated at some point in their lives are more likely to express anxiety about several aspects of retirement, to have...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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Pound Foolish

Release Date:

09/22/2017

Pound Foolish Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead ... to nutritious food. For nearly four decades, the food bank have provided a vital link between food and...

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How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers

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09/27/2017

... months of Republican attacks on the health law will still have consequences for some consumers. For now, people who get their insurance through Medicaid can rest easy. While some states have...

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UHF Honors 63 Health Care Quality Improvement Leaders at Tribute to Excellence Today

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07/15/2020

... annual Tribute to Excellence in Health Care , recognizing their personal efforts to champion quality of care, patient ... unique and challenging time, these quality leaders and their vital efforts to make our...

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18 Jun 2018

No Place Like Home: Responding to the Unique Needs of Homeless Children and Their Families

Monday, June 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Almost 70% of homeless New Yorkers are children and their families. Homelessness is traumatic for both children ... specifically, can experience long-term negative impacts on their health, mental health, education...

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Housing and Homelessness

NY Women’s Foundation, NoVo and 15 Other PNY Members Support Leadership of Young Women of Color with $2.1M

Release Date:

01/10/2017

... of collaborative philanthropy where organizations pool resources to better leverage collective use of their assets. Launched by The New York Women’s Foundation ... Women’s Foundation said, “Recent events in...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation Announces Spring 2021 Grants

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06/30/2021

... the pandemic. The Spring 2021 grantees are notable for their creative engagement with our cultural moment and for ... histories. Connecting artists to local and national resources in order to produce multi-...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Arts

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Food Funders Working Group

... New Jersey, and Connecticut. We provide information, resources , and networking opportunities for funders to invest ... CFF also aggregates and disseminates information and resources to its members, provides a...

Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green and Family Van Shares Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

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01/18/2017

... seamless! Philanthropic dollars, staff time, and end-user resources can be wasted through inefficient and ... funders can navigate upcoming policy changes and channel resources into advocacy. Cheryl Dorsey of...

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Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At-Risk Kids the Services They Need

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05/11/2017

... core of this problem are resource allocation challenges. Resources are always scarce, no matter how well a economy is ...

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Russel Sage Foundation Study Reveals Increased SNAP Benefits Can Move Families to Food Security

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03/09/2018

... then measured the resource gap--the difference between the resources a household has and what they would need to be food ...

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Food Systems

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces 2018 Core Support for National Arts Service Organizations

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04/17/2018

... by maintaining important networks for advocacy and sharing resources . “These arts service organizations represent ... for the arts at DDCF. “They serve critical roles in their fields, making us confident that...

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