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NY Times Profiles James Simons, Simons Foundation

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07/07/2014

In a New York Times profile, philanthropist James Simons is described as a "seeker, doer, giver, ponderer," who runs a "tidy universe of science endeavors, financing not only math teachers but hundreds of the world's best investigators."

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Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline in Women in Workforce

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07/28/2014

... federal policy. An earlier study by researchers at Cornell University found that family-friendly policies in other ...

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Gender Justice

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Russell Sage Study Shows Average Americans Get Poorer as Per Capita Wealth Reaches New High

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10/01/2014

... fallen by over a third. A study by economists at the University of Michigan for the Russell Sage Foundation showed ...

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Economic Security

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JPB Foundation Backs New Childhood Obesity Research

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04/29/2015

... soda and fries, researchers from ChildObesity180 at Tufts University Friedman School reported today in the journal ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Freedom Together Foundation

Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd

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06/04/2015

... American jobs. Take health care. In 1994, a Chinese university student named Zhu Ling became mysteriously ill. ...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Morgan Stanley Launches Perspectives in Philanthropy, Vol. 13, 'The Advancement of Women and Girls'

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08/26/2015

... Innovators featured in this edition include Aga Khan University , an international institution dedicated to serving ...

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Gender Justice

D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

... to an analysis by two professors at Michigan State University of grants by the 15 largest philanthropies funding ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Finds Possible New Target for Glaucoma Therapy

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09/11/2015

... New Target for Glaucoma Therapy Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region

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09/25/2015

... of tasks, you aren’t far off. In new research, Brown University scientists report evidence that a particular part ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Newman's Own Supports Volunteerism Event This Weekend

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10/21/2015

Gannett's USA TODAY, TEGNA, Points of Light and Newman’s Own, Inc. sponsor the nation's largest day of volunteerism.

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Mellon Foundation Supports Scholarship on America’s Immigration History, including Interactive Graphics

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12/17/2015

... plans for his massive wall along the Mexican border, the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab created ...

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Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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01/13/2016

... shows. The findings, made by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System’s Kellogg Eye Center ...

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Carnegie, Helmsley-funded Report: Fewer than 1 in 7 Community College Students Get Bachelor’s Degree

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01/19/2016

... College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University . “If we care about upward social mobility, then ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Mortality Rates for Middle-Aged Whites Not Just About Drugs, Suicide, Says Commonwealth Fund

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02/01/2016

... Says Commonwealth Fund At the end of 2015, Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton published a ...

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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

... supporters claim, is working. A 2015 working paper by University of Chicago Prof. Jeffrey Grogger found that ...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Study: Metabolism Protein Found to Also Regulate Feeding Behavior in the Brain (JPB Foundation)

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02/26/2016

... by scientists. However, new research from The Rockefeller University reveals an important new component of the system ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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03/07/2016

... Group at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and colleagues ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Bessemer Trust Among Experts Tapped by NYTimes for Piece on Social Change Major Gifts

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05/16/2016

Philanthropists may proclaim their desire for social change, but few, it turns out, follow through.

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Poll Supported by Ford Foundation Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence

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08/08/2016

... GenForward is a survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center ...

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