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Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program

Release Date:

09/05/2018

... projects, or arts and photography projects, youth have been at the forefront of the community-led rebuilding ... economic, social, and cultural change projects that can help create more resilient and self-...

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Research Funded by Zegar Family Foundation Finds New Genetic Interdependence Between Mothers and Their Offspring

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10/03/2018

... be genetic mismatches between mother and offspring, which can sometimes hinder adaptation to ecological conditions." ... into its juvenile form. However, some lineages have abandoned this larval mode of...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Funded Research Solves Genetic ‘Whodunnit’ for Cancer Gene

Release Date:

11/09/2018

... Salk Professor Reuben Shaw showed that late-stage cancers can trigger AMPK’s cellular recycling signal to cannibalize ... for more mature tumor cells to survive when they don’t have enough nutrients,” says...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

New York Community Trust to Provide Accessible Tickets in New York City

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02/13/2019

... Community Trust and the Jerome L. Greene Foundation have established a fund to support accessible tickets at 12 ... all five boroughs. “Making sure all New Yorkers can benefit from our city’s treasure trove of...

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The New York Community Trust

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

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03/15/2019

... to Amazon, and why it had won out. “I believe tech can be a road to the middle class for large numbers of ... nationally. About 85 percent of Pursuit’s 300 graduates have landed well-paying tech jobs within a...

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Inherent Group, LLC

Research Funded by Simons Foundation Finds New Causes of Autism Found in 'Junk' DNA

Release Date:

05/27/2019

... Leveraging artificial intelligence techniques, researchers have demonstrated that mutations in so-called ‘junk’ DNA can cause autism. The study, published May 27 in Nature ...

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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

... million for small art museums across the country who often have limited access to capital as part of the Art Museum Futures Fund’s next wave of grantmaking, which can be used to support expenses associated...

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18 Nov 2014

Food Chains - Documentary Film Series

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 -

4:30pm to 8:45pm

... abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all ... industry. Supermarkets earn $4 trillion globally and have tremendous power over the agricultural...

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Here Are The Leaders Of STOP: Bloomberg's $20 Million Tobacco Watchdog

Release Date:

08/14/2018

... or middle-income country since low and middle countries have recently become targets of tobacco companies . And ... and a list of organizations and people that may have facilitated the tobacco industry's...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Issues We’re Taking to the Hill

Release Date:

02/21/2018

... place Monday, March 12 to Wednesday, March 14. Any funders interested in joining this advocacy event should ... developing conversations with legislators now so that we can build support over the coming years...

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PNY News

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Philanthropy New York

Council on Foundations Announces Key Appointments to Senior Leadership Team

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08/22/2013

... Conference for the National Minority AIDS Council, which have both become known as landmark events. Rodriguez earned ... from the leadership of Rodriguez and Salazar, who both have extensive experience as...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship Shows Successes

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10/16/2015

... of fellowship recipients, Fellows from the first two years have quickly become game changers in their respective fields. ... climate change. These high risk, high reward investments have already begun to pay...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2021 Scholars

Release Date:

07/26/2021

... system to provide protection against new infections, and how proteins maintain the stability of the genome. “We ... directions with above-average risk and promise. Scholars have gone on to make fundamental...

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13 Mar 2012

The Nuts, Bolts & Art of Networking with David Schachter

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 -

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... because you never know exactly what to say to strangers? Have you always wanted to learn the basic functions and ... is and is not The importance of reciprocity in networking How to work on relationship...

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Issue-Based

06 May 2015

Executive Assistants Network - Tech Trends

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... hands-on Technology Fair, we will work in small groups and have the chance to ask and answer questions about the most ... Questions and tips pertaining to Microsoft Office How to navigate social media,...

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Network Building

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Executive Support Staff

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Five Questions for Pamela Shifman, Executive Director, NoVo Foundation

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04/01/2016

... at rates higher than other girls. Latina girls have the lowest four-year high-school graduation rates and ... inequities faced by girls and young women of color, and how the initiative complements NoVo's...

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NoVo Foundation

NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality

Release Date:

07/19/2017

... They are highly conscious of gender roles, and how even among seemingly well-meaning and high-minded people, ... Buffetts, who met in 1991 in Milwaukee, co-lead NoVo, and have assembled a racially and gender-...

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Hilton Foundation Follows a Familiar—and Promising—Playbook in Tackling a Debilitating Disease

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... most of her adult life. This personal backstory explains how the Hilton Foundation came to devote funding to a search ... treatments to reduce MS suffering. About 1 in 750 people have a chance of contracting...