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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Janice O’Connor

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10/15/2015

Reader' s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Welcomes New Board ... served as a member of the Executive Board of the Mental Health Association in Putnam County. “Janice brings a ... will be joining an...

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Columbia University School of Nursing to Become New Home of the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare

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11/17/2015

... at Columbia University. It will reside in Columbia’ s School of Nursing via an $11.1 million, 10-year grant to the University that underscores the Jonas Center’ s enduring commitment to the future of the...

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

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02/03/2016

... of researchers who generated stem cells from a patient' s skin cells and then repaired the damaged gene, RPGR, using ... the corrected tissue had been derived from the patient’ s own cells, it could...

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Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

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02/18/2016

... gene, neuromedin U (Nmu), also seems to serve as nature' s stimulant--fish lacking the gene take longer to wake up in the morning and are less active during the day. The findings improve our ... was...

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Public-Private Partnership With Ford, Surdna, Niarchos, Bloomberg, Mellon, and Rockefeller Award Placemaking Grants Totaling $11 Million

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12/09/2016

... creative placemaking projects in nineteen states and two U. S . territories. Awarded through ArtPlace America' s National ... nearly fourteen hundred proposals, the funded projects are...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Addresses Technology Gap in Rural Healthcare

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04/28/2017

... from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust’ s Rural Healthcare Program. Helmsley has awarded Providence ... images, allowing medical staff to quickly determine health status and course of...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse

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06/27/2017

... An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse Great Britain’ s exit from the European Union followed by the unexpected ... parties and media organs on both sides of the Atlantic are sharply polarized. Liberal...

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Wallace Foundation Commissioned Report Shows How ESSA Supports Social-Emotional Learning

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12/05/2017

... ESSA requirements. The report comes from the RAND Corp.’ s evidence review of how ESSA supports social-emotional ... Foundation. “We were pleasantly surprised that there are a pretty good number of options for...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Supports Play in Michigan Schools

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08/22/2018

... leveraging the power of play to transform children' s social and emotional health , recently announced a multiyear grant of $4,590,371 ... be trained by Playworks as a result of this funding. "We...

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Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program

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09/05/2018

... build a pipeline to develop the leaders of Puerto Rico’ s future, the Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce the Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships ... range of human rights challenges—such as those...

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27 Feb 2019

Public Policy Fellowship Open House

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 -

4:00pm to 6:00pm

... Nupur Chaudhury, Program Officer, New York State Health Foundation William Kelley, Director of Talent ...

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Pursuit Bonds, Funded by Inherent Foundation, Helps Provide Workforce Training for Disadvantaged New Yorkers

Release Date:

03/15/2019

... for disadvantaged New Yorkers was cited in the city’ s written proposal to the company. But Mr. Hsu said he also ... of Pursuit, a nonprofit social venture. “But there’ s real skepticism about that among...

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Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Helps Fund Research to Find Personalized Treatment for Crohn's Disease

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05/03/2019

... Fund Research to Find Personalized Treatment for Crohn' s Disease To model human health and disease, organ-on-a-chip technology mimics the human body' s organ structure,...

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Lack of Diversity Hurts Science: Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program Is Changing That

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06/10/2019

... to take creepy, crawly things to kids in one of my city’ s lowest-income neighborhoods. A six-year-old ... before. When the professionals who manage our wild places are not diverse, their decisions may not...

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Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Shows Glimpse of How Moisture and Humidity Affect Mold Growth

Release Date:

06/10/2019

... conditions. Stephens also collaborated with Dan Zhao (M. S . EE '14, Ph.D. candidate), who was responsible for leading ... says Stephens, pointing out that, "certain [microbes] are harmful to ...

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Henry Street Settlement Debuts Neighborhood Center in Historic Firehouse with Support from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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10/29/2019

... at 269 Henry St., adjacent to the settlement house’ s historic headquarters. Engine Company 15 vacated the ... etc.), affordable housing counseling, employment services, health insurance enrollment and legal...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Adds Finance Veteran Marc Chennault to Its Board

Release Date:

06/23/2020

... investment experience, has been advising the Foundation’ s Finance Committee since 2017, and his formal appointment to ... a New York-based non-profit focused on holistic health programs for New Yorkers facing...

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Mellon Foundation Launches New Art Museum Futures Fund to Distribute Tens of Millions to Art Museums Nationwide

Release Date:

09/17/2020

... raging across America, arts and cultural institutions are particularly vulnerable to the extraordinary financial ... unprecedented financial obstacles posed by this worldwide health crisis. With awards ranging...