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Open Society Foundations Announces 2017 Soros Equality Fellows

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03/21/2017

... the recipients of the Soros Equality Fellowship, a new initiative to help emerging mid-career professionals ... creating an ad campaign to take on distortions in America' s contemporary racial narrative...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Representatives Tour Renovated Labs at University of Miami

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03/31/2017

... the representatives visited the areas the bank’ s donation supported: the Bank of America Molecular and Cell ... Research Lab, and the Schatzi and Stanley Kassal Project: New Born Neonatal Intensive Care Unit...

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Report Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Finds Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year

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04/06/2017

... kills more than one in 10 people worldwide. A major new study in the medical journal Lancet found that, in 2015, ... place in four countries: China, India, Russia and the U. S . The study used over 2,818 pieces...

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Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights

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04/19/2017

... disbursed over four years, the largest contribution in PHR' s thirty-year history will provide a dollar for every two dollars the organization raises for investments in new technology and to expand its...

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Aetna Foundation Leverages Philanthropic Investment to Build Healthier Communities

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04/20/2017

... year provides funding to local stakeholders that can find new ways to improve health equity in their neighborhoods. ...

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Ford Foundation Supports GenForward Survey on Young Americans' Perceptions of Trump

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04/21/2017

... Creek, Florida. That Trump is undeniably the nation’ s 45th president doesn’t sit easily with young Americans like Anderson who are the nation’ s increasingly diverse electorate of the future, according to a...

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Funds Study on Corals; Some Corals Are Adapting To Warming Climate

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05/03/2017

... on Corals; Some Corals Are Adapting To Warming Climate A new WCS study reveals evidence that some corals are adapting ...

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W.T. Grant Funds Research on How Technology Use Affects At-Risk Youth

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05/03/2017

... adolescents already at risk for mental health issues, a new study from Duke University finds. "Also, on days at-risk .....

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William T. Grant Foundation

Alarming Number of Young Girls in Mexico Are Forced to Marry, Ford-Funded Report Finds

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05/04/2017

... Mexico are being forced into marriages with older men, a new report reveals. The report, conducted by Mexico’ s Research in Health and Demography, INSAD, states that 83 ...

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Sloan Foundation-Supported Poll Finds Blacks Less Likely to Have Enough for Retirement

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05/18/2017

... to say they've saved enough for retirement, a new poll found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public ... and other minority groups extends beyond pensions, 401(k) s or other retirement accounts. The...

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Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation

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05/23/2017

... decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U. S . schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 ... Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, the new generation of school choice...

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Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions

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05/26/2017

... Consequences of Recessions The Great Recession, as a new collection of research papers from the Russell Sage ...

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With Support from the Simons Foundation, Researchers Uncover Clues About How HIV Virus Mutates

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06/02/2017

... Researchers Uncover Clues About How HIV Virus Mutates A new study published in Cell Host Microbe led by researchers ...

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Furthering Conflict with George Soros, Hungary Tightens Rules on Foreign-Funded NGOs

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06/13/2017

... Hungary Tightens Rules on Foreign-Funded NGOs Hungary' s parliament approved on Tuesday strict new rules for non-government organisations with foreign funding in a further escalation of the government...

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Century Foundation: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Worth Saving

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06/15/2017

... After decades of decline and political indifference, the U. S . manufacturing is getting fresh attention. “American ... that had been lost after the recession, and supported bold new investments in the nation...

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Staten Island Foundation Supports Worker-Owned Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island

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06/20/2017

... together final details, before the official launch of two new businesses. “Exciting because we're going to be our own .....

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Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

Release Date:

06/23/2017

... year to a record $123 billion, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecast... Rockefeller Foundation ...

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Rockefeller Survey Finds Male Attitudes Are Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business

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08/03/2017

... or interested females out there. But an intriguing new survey from the Rockefeller Foundation released Tuesday ...

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With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up

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08/28/2017

... are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals—a new science building, teacher training, diversifying the ...

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’ s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism The ... a Pulitzer Prize that helped spur the British newspaper’ s international expansion, is fully...