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Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment

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07/10/2014

... Mothers' Educational Attainment Children whose mothers have not graduated from high school lag on economic, ... Mother’s Education and Children’s Outcomes: How Dual-Generation Programs Offer Increased...

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New York State Health Foundation Survey Reports 92% of Newly Insured Obamacare Users are Happy with Coverage

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11/11/2014

... period that begins on Nov. 15, state officials have a vested interest in making sure things go smoothly. The ... of health care reform in New York will be measured by how many residents maintain their coverage...

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UJA Federation Charities Scramble to Address FEGS Closure

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03/16/2015

... programs—but also political, raising questions about how a host of well-connected directors, regulatory entities ... Groups associated under the UJA Federation of charities have already picked up a slice of...

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Ms. Foundation Launches Campaign to Define 21st Century Feminism

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10/23/2015

... This is embarrassing to admit, knowing what I know now. How could I have not been a feminist? But this truth is all too common ...

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Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’

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12/03/2015

... to better her health and her community. She has learned how to grow produce, cook it in the healthiest manner, and ... improve the health of New Yorkers in 12 communities that have limited access to healthy...

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Food Systems

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

... just over a year. But scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a key to how these tumor cells proliferate so quickly --and ways to ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

... having trouble turning a profit without deep annual cuts, how about becoming a nonprofit?” That was the question ...

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UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

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02/18/2016

... way of giving is becoming a relic of simpler days. Donors have gotten savvier. Before they open their wallets, ... of the board of directors, and detailed information about how the charity spends the precious...

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Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

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09/28/2016

... for proteins. Two big questions facing scientists are: How much of this “non-coding” RNA is actually functional? ... are long non-coding RNAs, or lncRNAs. About 16,000 lncRNAs have been identified in humans,...

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Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed

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11/11/2016

... of his own party described as a classic authoritarian. How is it possible that tens of millions of Americans ... George W. Bush wrote that in the Republican nominee, “we have reached the culmination of the...

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Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

... nation today. It’s an extraordinary success story. But how should this diversity shape our politics? The standard ...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

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04/03/2017

... highest in the world, while rates in the developing world have been rising rapidly, especially in China. By analyzing ... populations, the consortium hopes to better understand how environmental factors affect...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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NY State Health Foundation CEO: 1M New Yorkers Could Lose Health Coverage Under AHCA

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05/08/2017

... Lose Health Coverage Under AHCA New Yorkers wondering how their medical insurance will be affected by the health care bill passed by the House will have their eyes on Albany, which will be under pressure to ...

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... drops of coffee evaporate. In one paper, they learned how to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now, in a new paper published in Nature Communications, they have uncovered the complex and remarkably...

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Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students

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06/27/2017

... issues related to higher education in New York, especially how to ensure that more New Yorkers are college-ready and ... we close the book on our own research, we really wanted to have this conversation and...

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Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!

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07/19/2017

... equitable neighborhoods and communities — and learning how to turn ideals into outcomes. PLACES Fellows: ▪ Are ... peer relationships with other leaders in philanthropy. ▪ Have a broad range of philanthropic...

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NYS Health Foundation Unveils Health Care Cost Transparency Website

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09/12/2017

... health care services. It is vital that consumers have information that will help them make good choices about when and where to receive care, and how much they might expect to pay for that care. Despite ...

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Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

... Brooklyn, Edna McKay never expected she would one day have a full-time job in the sustainable energy industry. She ... eight-part minidocumentary series on service years, watch how McKay transformed her future...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... into a giant collaboration that will develop theories of how the brain works by focusing on a single behaviour shared ... in London, and the Simons Foundation in Washington DC have together committed more than...

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