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Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper

Release Date:

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'

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

07/27/2016

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

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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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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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Bloomberg Philanthropies Addresses Road Safety Issues in Mumbai

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02/23/2015

... safety, and Mumbai and India are among the ten cities and five countries which will receive $125 million over five years and technical support to strengthen road safety ...

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Revson Foundation President Makes the Case for NYC Libraries in HuffPost Editorial

Release Date:

05/22/2015

... libraries play in serving the city's diverse communities. Five branch libraries received $20,000 each and another five received $10,000 each, after being selected by a .....

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2015 Scholars

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

17 Jul 2024

Interested in Working in Philanthropy?

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... a Foundation " series. This year, we will learn about the field of philanthropy from the perspectives of professionals ... new hires and the number of jobs available in the field at a given time This...

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Mayor must focus on city's resiliency

Release Date:

01/03/2014

In an op-ed for Crain's New York Business, Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin says that the de Blasio Administration must focus on the city's resiliency.

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Unions, Reform Groups Gird for California-Inspired Lawsuit

Release Date:

06/17/2014

n the wake of last week's Vergara v. California ruling, New York’s teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state’s tenure laws and possibly many other teacher protections.