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Long Island Community Foundation Provides At-Risk Seniors With Fresh Produce And Nutrition Education

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01/25/2017

... in New Cassel living below the federal poverty line have limited access to fresh food at a reasonable price. EAC Network’ s new Fresh from the Garden Senior Initiative aims to ...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Food Systems

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United Hospital Fund President James Tallon Steps Down from NY Board of Regents

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02/02/2017

... Tallon will not seek another term on New York state’ s education policymaking body, he told Chalkbeat this week, ... continuing the transformation of the 17-member group. “I have told the Senate and Assembly...

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Simons Foundation Supports Brain Scans That Identify If Baby Sibling Also Has Autism

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02/16/2017

... resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of infants who have older siblings with autism, scientists were able to ...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

Sloan Foundation Contributes to Harvard Research Program on Solar Geoengineering

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04/17/2017

... Program on Solar Geoengineering Harvard scientists have launched the largest-ever research program into “solar ... reversing climate change. Launched this weekend, Harvard’ s Solar Geoengineering Research...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Service to Aggregate Life Sciences Preprints

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04/18/2017

... servers has come to the attention of funders. Concerns have been raised regarding issues related to discoverability, ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Science

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Three MIT Alumni Win 2017 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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04/21/2017

... Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Three MIT alumni have been awarded The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New ... for their potential to make significant contributions to U. S . society, culture, or...

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Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans

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Immigration

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $1.725 Million for Hopkins & Community College of Baltimore County Partnership on Humanities

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05/19/2017

... University and the Community College of Baltimore County have been awarded a combined $1.725 million to partner on ...

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Mellon Foundation

Did Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey?

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08/28/2017

... Interstates are under feet of water, local authorities have asked boat owners to join rescue efforts, and most of ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Sloan Foundation Funds Pratt Professor’s Work to Restore Roman Painting Buried By Volcano

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08/30/2017

Sloan Foundation Funds Pratt Professor’ s Work to Restore Roman Painting Buried By Volcano A number ... Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, and Archeology Magazine, have recently spotlighted the cutting-edge work of...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Arts

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Facebook Will Match Harvey Relief Donations Up To $1 Million, Sending to Center for Disaster Philanthropy

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08/31/2017

... continues to inundate the Texas Gulf Coast, Facebook users have one more reason to donate to relief efforts. Facebook ... directly through the center for Disaster Philanthropy’ s Facebook page. . . Facebook...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Disaster Relief

Here Are 5 Things To Know About The ESSA Plan New York Is Sending To Betsy Devos

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09/11/2017

... ESSA Plan New York Is Sending To Betsy Devos New York’ s top education policymakers are set to approve a major plan ... requires each state to craft a plan and submit it to the U. S . Education Department,...

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Is One Drink OK For Pregnant Women? Around The Globe, The Answer Is No

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09/12/2017

... alcohol during pregnancy, some women wonder: Is it OK to have one drink? "I do get that question often," says David .....

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Health

More Nonprofits Are Running Their Own Crowdfunding Drives

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09/26/2017

... Drives Fundraisers at the Holocaust Museum in the nation’ s capital are watching their donors age in real time. When ... years ago, the average age of donors was 45. Today, it’ s 72. Fewer people today...

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Republicans Outline Biggest Tax Code Overhaul In A Generation

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09/28/2017

... A Generation President Trump and GOP congressional leaders have outlined their plan for the most sweeping overhaul of ...

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Economic Security

Corporate Donations For Hurricane Maria Relief Top $24 Million

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10/03/2017

... to rebuild Puerto Rico. As of Friday, corporate donations have reached $24.1 million for Hurricane Maria relief efforts ... four days ago, according to an estimate from the U. S . Chamber of Commerce. A...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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The Century Foundation Has Obtained New Data Showing 99 Percent of Student Fraud Claims Concern For-Profit Colleges

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11/13/2017

... Century Foundation (TCF) has obtained new data from the U. S . Department of Education about nearly 100,000 “borrower ... for loan relief from students who maintain that they have been defrauded or misled by...

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Simons Foundation Announces 2018 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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04/02/2018

... outstanding mathematicians and theoretical physicists who have been awarded Simons Fellowships in 2018. The Simons ...

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Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The JPB Foundation and Others Fund Brain Circuitry Research

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05/03/2018

... of brain and cognitive sciences and a member of MIT' s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Tye and her colleagues at MIT have now identified the brain circuit that is required for .....

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Freedom Together Foundation

With Support From the Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Genetic, Environmental, Microbial (Gem) Project Has Reached Its Goal of 5,000 Participants

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06/20/2018

... Participants After 10 years and a worldwide effort, Crohn' s and Colitis Canada is pleased to announce that the ... Sinai Hospital in Toronto, the GEM Project is the world' s largest clinical study...

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