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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

... Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation (RDPFS), has announced the first grantees in its $1.2 million, ... $300,000 Low Vision Research Award, which targets how the brain adapts to degraded visual input...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App

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06/29/2016

... Museum App For the last few years the Brooklyn Museum has been prototyping ways to reach visitors on a more ... the museum staff something as well: They're learning how visitors interact with the...

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Arts

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U.S. News Article Cites Wallace Report on School Leadership

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08/16/2016

... School Leadership Until recently, little was known about how much support principals in the United States receive to ... leaders can play in student learning. A national survey has provided rare insight on the...

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Supported by Simons Foundation, Study Finds Genetics, Early Term Ultrasound Linked to Autism Severity

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09/02/2016

... among 12 research sites across the United States. “There has been a real struggle in why there are so many kids with ... sciences. “Where does this disorder develop from? How do kids get autism? And the second...

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

... Competition (IIC) under the ‘new models’ category, has reached 70,000 farmers through a network of licensed ... on the Digital Economy’ (IDE), which explores how people and businesses can work, interact, and...

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Food Systems

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Supported by Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Story Explores Trump's Immigration Policies on Turkish Communities

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01/05/2017

... Communities Osman Altay, 56, a Turkish-American who has been living in Paterson, N.J., for 40 years, voted for ... opponent of Muslims. Altay says he is paying attention to how the new president will...

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Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island

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05/15/2017

... presents. While it seems that federal momentum for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as of late—it’s still ... criminal-justice system, and may also offer a model for how it can be righted. . . Darren Walker...

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Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center

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05/24/2017

... new arts center known as the Shed, rising in Hudson Yards, has received $75 million from Michael R. Bloomberg, showing just how much the Far West Side continues to be shaped by a small ...

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Ford, Tow Foundation Among Funders of An Anti-Fake News Initiative That is Starting to Take Shape

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08/31/2017

... the tide of viral sensationalism, it's far from clear how to achieve this goal. Technology clearly has its limits. Algorithms can't distinguish the contextual .....

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A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis

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09/11/2017

... Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis. The epidemic has led every state but Missouri to establish one of these ... programs, which allow doctors and regulators to track how many opioid medications and other...

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Exxon Loses Bid to Keep Auditor Files Secret in Climate Fraud Investigation

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09/13/2017

... aside objections by ExxonMobil, New York's highest court has opened the door for state officials to demand that the ... change and whether its auditors had any concerns about how it disclosed those risks...

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The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

... to DNA to help solve crimes. And it's worked: The science has helped develop investigative leads and given prosecutors ... of DNA profiles without any laws and little oversight over how they can use it...

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Can You Ask for Salary History in Your State?

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09/27/2017

... agree with Miss Manners that you shouldn’t ask people how much money they make, especially if they’re job ... a lawyer with Stoel Rives LLP in Oregon, says his firm has been advising clients to do. . . Can You...

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TCC Group Releases New Report: (Un)precedented: Philanthropy Takes Action in the First Year of a New Political Reality.

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04/11/2018

... the First Year of a New Political Reality – documents how philanthropy has demonstrated flexibility, nimbleness, and a willingness ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and others Redefine Arts Funding

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05/18/2018

... and others Redefine Arts Funding Bloomberg Philanthropies has supported creative placemaking and public art projects ... they start? What is the proper level of risk tolerance? How does proposed programming—to...

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Risk, Resiliency and Super Storms: What’s Food Got To Do With It?

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07/15/2013

... “first responders.” Together, we explored how the storms reshaped notions of resiliency within the food ... and impacted thinking about food system security — and how this will influence the planning process...

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Creating a Conversation About Hunger in America

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03/19/2013

... in food-insecure households. Getting a small sense of how difficult it is to actually live that reality made the numbers even more disconcerting. I realized how impossibly hard it is to thrive on such a small...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

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05/18/2015

... thousand patients who will be followed over time. CCFA has selected Deloitte Consulting to develop IBD Plexus's big ... effective, personalized treatments and potential cures has been slow," said...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Cities of Service Announces Engaged Cities Award

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11/06/2017

... on Hu-O-Te Park, a shabby community space in downtown that has seen years of neglect. A cinderblock wall behind the ... Michael Bloomberg and 16 other mayors, Cities of Service has been so successful that 235...

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