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Suzanne C. Sousa Steps Into New Role as Executive Director of the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

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08/23/2017

... the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation Suzanne C. Sousa has been appointed Executive Director of the Stella and ... Foundation’s Senior Program Officer. Elizabeth Olofson has stepped aside as Executive...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Names Chun Lai as Chief Investment Officer After Donna Dean Announces Retirement

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10/16/2019

... from her position towards the end of this year. Dean has served as the Foundation's Chief Investment Officer since ... in 1995. During her tenure, the Foundation's endowment has grown from $2.4...

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27 May 2020

Election Protection: Funding Election Protection and Wisconsin Lessons in Light of Changing Realities - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:15pm

... Funders' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP), who has extended an invitation to PNY members. Space is limited ... work. The Wisconsin Primary Elections highlighted how partisanship is putting voters...

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Philanthropy New York 36th Annual Meeting

... in charting a path to progress. When asked by Kristof how she would use $1 billion in philanthropic funds, she ... put it into. I would focus on girls’ education, maternal health , youth empowerment and...

CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high

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05/30/2014

CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high The USA has the most measles cases in 20 years and the most since ... actual count is 166 as of Thursday, according to the state Health Department. The nationwide total...

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NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods

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06/11/2014

... Neighborhoods New York City's Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food in otherwise underserved ... Office of Food Policy and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in...

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Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

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07/17/2014

... Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard ...

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Data is Needed to Address Worldwide Women's Issues

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12/16/2014

... and to promote a joint effort to gather more data on their health , workplace roles, childbirth and other facets of their ... the Democrats' 2016 presidential nominee were she to run, has long championed...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

The CDC Foundation has announced a two-year, $14 million grant from Bloomberg ... which will be conducted in partnership with the World Health Organization, will be used to enhance participating ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research

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04/10/2015

... Genomics and Informatics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein ...

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Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta

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04/13/2015

... of Young Women in the Niger Delta The Ford Foundation has a keen interest in empowering women by expanding ... grant for a project that addresses the reproductive health needs of young, out-of-school women in...

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Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research

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06/02/2015

... announced today that The Pershing Square Foundation (PSF) has awarded the institution $10 million to support its ... projects and game-changing discoveries to improve human health . We are grateful to have Bill...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation-Sponsored Team Wins Competition

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04/12/2016

... the ideal that a team from the College of William and Mary has made its mission to uphold. The College’s team won the ... about the United States’ long-term fiscal and economic health in a competitive and...

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NoVo Foundation to Support Food Sovereignty Assessments in Native American Communities

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06/23/2016

... Development Institute (First Nations) today announced it has received a $480,000 grant from the NoVo Foundation Fund ... local food systems in order to better address community health issues, build the local...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2016 Scholars

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06/30/2016

... Announces 2016 Scholars The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2016 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, ... great promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health . The selected Scholars will...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Launches New CT Scanner Initiative for Rural Hospitals

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10/28/2016

... in the United States and around the world in the areas of health , education, human services, and place-based ... advance this mission, the trust's Rural Healthcare Program has launched the CT Scanner...

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Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights

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04/19/2017

... Physicians for Human Rights Physicians for Human Rights has announced an $8 million challenge grant from the Open ... investments in new technology and to expand its network of health professionals and human...

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New Study Shows Organic Farming Traps Carbon in Soil to Combat Climate Change

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09/12/2017

... of the atmosphere is the prime target for improving the health of our planet. One of the best ways to do that is ... the soil that grows our food. The scientific community has been actively debating whether...

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Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... for brain injury before they even step on the field. Health reporter Erin Billups has the story. 16-year-old Scott West got a concussion ...

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... the old adage, “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…” In all seriousness, the reproductive health of girls and women around the world is at stake...

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