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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2015 Scholars

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07/09/2015

... receive grants of up to $110,000 per year for a maximum of five years to conduct innovative research on brain ... potential for learning, leadership and collaboration. Five of the Scholars were nominated by...

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Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want

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12/01/2015

... is an increasingly urgent concern. A person turns sixty- five every eight seconds, and according to Census numbers, the population of people age eighty- five and older, which doubled in the past thirty years,...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

Release Date:

12/15/2017

... Institute of Art, or MIA, a $750,000 grant, to fund a five -year project to build empathy in order to affect ... to experience works of art made over the course of some five thousand years, from every corner of...

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Mellon Foundation

09 Jun 2015

Catch a Ride on a Roller-Coaster! Immigration Issues Facing the New York Region

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... Accountability Executive Action, which provides nearly five million unauthorized immigrants, mostly parents of U.S. ...

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The New York Forward Loan Fund Receives Philanthropic Commitment from Citi, Ford, and Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundations

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08/05/2020

... capital loan from Pursuit Lending that helped retain five jobs and support the business's reopening. A Bead Just .....

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

16 Feb 2017

Perspectives on Sanctuary Policies – A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, February 16, 2017 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... Group Aryah Somers Landsberger (Moderator), Director of Programs , Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees ...

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Maricella Espinosa-Blohm

... New York’s current co-op intern from Northeastern University . She works as an assistant to the member services ... to Boston to study Cultural Anthropology at Northeastern University in Boston. Her other...

Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper

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03/18/2016

... distance itself from Cape Wind continued this week as the University of Delaware released a report showing offshore ... and bigger than Cape Wind. The report, conducted by the university ’s Special Initiative...

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Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Publishes New Volume: 'Higher Education Effectiveness'

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04/08/2016

... "Higher Education Effectiveness," the scholars from University of California at Riverside and Duke University , respectively, accept the idea that .....

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Gives $5.5M to Launch Mobile Simulation Initiative for Rural Emergencies

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07/27/2016

... Mobile Simulation Initiative for Rural Emergencies The University of Nebraska Medical Center has received a $5.5 ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Simons Foundation Contributes to Research Outlining Cellular Communication Processes

Release Date:

08/30/2016

... Academy of Sciences by physicists from Oregon State University and Purdue University , done with support from the National Science ...

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Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated

Release Date:

09/26/2016

... to treat different diseases. A new study led by the University of Pennsylvania and the University at Buffalo marks a step forward in filling these ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Supported by Mellon Foundation, Hybrid Publishing Platform Launches In Beta Form

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04/07/2017

... Hybrid Publishing Platform Launches In Beta Form The University of Minnesota Press on Tuesday launched a beta ... The press, along with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and coders at Cast...

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Leon Levy Foundation Supports Bird Migration Forecasts

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04/27/2018

... Scientists with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the University of Oxford, England, made the breakthrough: ... said Benjamin Van Doren ’16, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford. “Our forecasts...

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FAQ: Trust-Based Philanthropy Cohort with a Racial Equity Lens

Release Date:

01/26/2022

... philanthropy and racial equity work. While these themes have been explored in past programs , this is the first cohort to provide a dedicated ... who may be responsible for designing and running all ...