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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation' s new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include ... arts into engineering curricula as part of each campus' s effort to launch its own...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2015 Scholars

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07/09/2015

... of knowledge about how biological systems function in health and disease. The selected Scholars will receive grants ... cancer, inflammation and chronic pain. These Scholars are distinguished by their bold...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards More Than $1.5 Million to 11 Arts Organizations

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09/03/2015

... jazz and theatre. As recipients of grants from DDCF’ s Fund for National Projects, these organizations are empowered to fulfill their efforts to engage audiences across the country and significantly advance...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Grants $2 Million in Core Operating Support to Nine National Arts Organizations

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09/23/2015

... program has funded organizations deemed critical to the health of the contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and/or ...

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De Blasio Enlists New York City's Wealthy for His War on Income Inequality (Morgan Stanley)

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12/08/2015

De Blasio Enlists New York City' s Wealthy for His War on Income Inequality (Morgan Stanley) ... operators Paul Tudor Jones, Tony James and William Ackman are helping with affordable housing, youth employment...

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NPs Share Excellent Management Practices (New York Community Trust)

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01/19/2016

... by the size of the crowd in the CUNY Graduate Center’ s Proshansky Auditorium and by the whispers in the seats ... comments that attendees of The New York Community Trust’ s 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards...

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UJA-Federation of New York Seeks $40M From Bankrupt FEGS

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02/09/2016

... bankruptcy case of the massive social service charity FEGS Health & Human Services are seeking tens of millions of dollars for a joint ... a government agency that insures private retirement plans,...

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Jewish Interests

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New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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03/07/2016

... The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health , the National Cancer Institute, Research to Prevent ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

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04/25/2017

... Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’ s Economy Billions Each Year Long Island’ s economy could ... economy would be much stronger if barriers in education, health and...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

... Become Obese Children Infants born with a high birthweight are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children' s Hospital suggests. The researchers say...

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

Simons Foundation' s Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including ... bacteria that live in and on the human body –and are believed to affect health . The Microbiome Immunity Project is...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when they’re not doing the job for which ... Review. The study examined 998 nonprofits in the arts, health , and human services looking for...

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‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?

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09/15/2017

... for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’ s System? As leading Democrats embrace Senator Bernie ... vastly expand Medicare to cover all Americans, Republicans are fighting back with familiar...

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

... Comptroller Says More than 40 percent of the city’ s middle and high school students are not getting the sex education required by the state, ... been in decline for four years, according to the city'...

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Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

... Angry responses to this announcement came from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other anti-smoking entities. ... seems to see these “vaping” options as its company’ s future, with their first-quarter...

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How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings from the Wallace Foundation

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10/06/2017

... of reaching for the Holy Grail. The Wallace Foundation’ s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: ... operations in three fields: education (10 nonprofits), health (18 nonprofits), and youth...

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Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

... Falls, warning they still pose a serious threat to public health . The EPA recently abandoned cleanup activities to ... byproducts from prior industrial uses. The three sites are a parking lot at a bowling...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Foundation Research Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children

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10/10/2017

... nations says kids whose watersheds have greater tree cover are less likely to experience diarrheal disease, the second ... the connection between watershed quality and individual health outcomes of children at...

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