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Supported by JPB Foundation, Scientists Identify Neurons Devoted to Social Memory

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09/30/2016

... Scientists Identify Neurons Devoted to Social Memory Mice have brain cells that are dedicated to storing memories of ... toward each other. The researchers also showed that they can suppress or stimulate these...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports Liberal Arts to Fight Climate Change

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10/14/2016

... arts—and more to the point, the liberal arts skillset— have a lot to teach the sciences. In other words, the world needs people who can communicate effectively, think critically, and grasp the ...

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The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Funds Construction of New Playground

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07/23/2018

... construct a playground at Camp Agawam. The community will have a chance to give their input on their dream playground during what is known as Design Day. Kids can draw their dream playground and the parents...

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Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”

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12/20/2017

... underlies the foundation’s initiatives and describes how a focus on continuous improvement fits into this. ... to find workable solutions to complex problems, such as how to effectively train and support...

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The Wallace Foundation

03 Jun 2013

A Special Screening of American Promise

Monday, June 3, 2013 -

2:45pm to 6:00pm

... New York Special Event , co-sponsored by Media Impact Funders and the NYC Youth Funders . Presenters Idris Brewster , character from ...

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19 Jun 2012

An Update on New York City’s Promise Neighborhood Initiatives

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... Harlem Children’s Zone; four New York City nonprofits have won Promise Neighborhood planning grants to create ... of the projects The challenges and opportunities for local funders A Philanthropy New York...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Discusses City Resiliency on Innovation Hub

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05/04/2015

... in the Midwest, or the Northeast — where epic snowstorms can shut down a city — complete safety is virtually unobtainable. But cities can weather these figurative, and literal, storms. And they ... given that...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Roy Swan to Lead Mission Investments Portfolio

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12/05/2017

... investments (PRIs), which Ford pioneered in the impact investing field. A well-respected investment and ... with a passion for using finance to achieve social impact , Swan will begin his new position on...

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Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy

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12/02/2013

... Roob shares with the Stanford Social Innovation Review how the foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works. ... in the capacity and proof points of nonprofits that have the potential to improve the...

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Century Foundation Research on School Segregation is Focus of Reporting in The Atlantic

Release Date:

04/21/2016

... the “ahistorical nature” of conversations today about how to integrate schools. Speaking at a Century Foundation ... current lack of real integration as a fact over which they have no control. That, he argued...

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Simons Foundation Collaboration to Study the Physics of Glass

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07/13/2016

... cooling a liquid rapidly until it solidifies. But when and how does that change occur? When does liquid become solid? Is ... transition at all? The answers to those questions would have implications far beyond...

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Supported by Simons Foundation, Super-Resolution Microscope Builds 3-D Images By Mapping Negative Space

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09/06/2016

... Space Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a method for making three-dimensional ... other existing methods. The method may help shed light on how cells communicate with one...

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Commonwealth Fund Executives Write About Stressed, But Fixable ACA Marketplaces

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09/07/2016

... Care Act’s (ACA) marketplaces. Several insurance plans have requested double-digit premium increases for 2017—and ... pulling out of several state marketplaces next year. But how concerned should we be about...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Bloomberg Charity Scrutinized By India For Anti-Tobacco Funding, Lobbying

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08/29/2017

... Funding, Lobbying India has been investigating how Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by billionaire Michael ... Thousands of foreign-funded charities’ licenses have been canceled for misreporting donations...

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President of Peter G. Peterson Foundation on the New Budget Deal

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02/09/2018

... focused on the country's fiscal challenges, comments on how more stimulus — and debt — to an overextended ... economy. He says: "We've already entered a period where we have these structural...

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United Hospital Fund Names Two New Vice Presidents, New Controller, Other Staff Changes

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04/06/2021

... R. Murria will be promoted to vice president of human resources from director of human resources , while retaining his title as chief diversity, ... has been crucial to UHF’s success, ensuring that we ...

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A Perfect Time For Fundamentals

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02/07/2018

... developed in partnership with the Advocacy Institute on how to increase campaign effectiveness in Albany and New ... added a new session that focuses on the Form 990 and how to use that document to ...

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Philanthropy New York

11 Feb 2013

Money and Power in Post-Election America: Where is Philanthropy?

Monday, February 11, 2013 - 4:00pm to Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 4:00pm

Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, NYC

... K-12 education, health care reform and poverty. Explore How is America’s polarized political culture changing philanthropy? How has the political culture shaped the types of projects we ... with government?...

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Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational

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10/10/2017

... 2017 Nobel prize in economics for his influential work on how human nature affects markets. Thaler won the $1.1-million ... choices that maximized their outcomes. But Thaler showed how very human traits, such...

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Economic Security

22 Apr 2021

Leaning into Racial Justice with the Surdna Foundation and Andrus Family Fund - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, April 22, 2021 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... like never before. Yet many foundations are grappling with how to fund racial equity and the best way forward for their ... their decision to increase funding for racial justice, how they are approaching this...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Social Justice

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