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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

The Intersectional Self questions how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have shifted in the context of newly defined gender identities, and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through relatively recent advances...

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The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

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Arts

Gender Justice

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With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species

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02/28/2017

... hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate group distantly ...

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The Wenner-Gren Foundation

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Science

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

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04/03/2017

... consortium working to identify microbial organisms and related dietary factors that contribute to the development of ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training

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06/13/2017

... it should make skills training for infrastructure- related jobs a central part of the plan. As the president and ...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students

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06/27/2017

... administrators gathered Monday morning to discuss issues related to higher education in New York, especially how to ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Education

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The Clark Foundation

Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!

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07/19/2017

... large and small. ▪ Are passionate about solving problems related to community, equity, and smart growth. ▪ Want to ...

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RFPs Etc

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation funds $150,000 pilot to pair Baltimore police officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the throes of a mental health crisis in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from...

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The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation

Justice Reform

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How to Improve Diversity in Corporate America

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08/29/2017

... geopolitical business scene is changing, and new business- related immigration policies stand to dampen our ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Commonwealth Fund: How the Affordable Care Act Has Helped Women Gain Insurance and Improved Their Ability to Get Health Care

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08/31/2017

Prior to the Affordable Care Act, one-third of women who tried to buy a health plan on their own were either turned down, charged a higher premium because of their health, or had specific health problems excluded from their plans. Beginning in 2010...

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Gender Justice

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The Commonwealth Fund

Yes, It Can Be Done: A Philanthropist on Transforming Rural Communities Through the Arts

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09/06/2017

In 1998, the couple founded the Hunter, New York-based Catskill Mountain Foundation (CMF), an organization committed to transforming rural communities through the arts. Over the next five years, the foundation plans to inject $20 million—in addition...

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Arts

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Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts

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09/13/2017

... HIV rates, and 14 other health and economic measurements related to the goals. The report, and two events the Gateses ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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NYC Schools Are Inadequate on Sex Education, Stringer Says

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09/15/2017

... instructors participated in any professional development related to sex education within the last two years, the ...

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Education

Experts Analyze Mayor De Blasio's Jobs Plan

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09/21/2017

... many. The panel of experts explored those issues, and the related economic factors that they agreed were necessary to ...

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Workforce Development

Assemblyman Peter Lopez Picked as New EPA Regional Administrator

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09/29/2017

... to such local environmental issues as ongoing issues related to PFOA contamination in the Rensselaer County ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Total Health Costs of Industrial Food Systems Are “Staggering,” Says New Report

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10/10/2017

A new report by international experts draws significant linkages between industrial food and farming practices and many of the “severest health conditions afflicting populations around the world,” from respiratory diseases to a range of cancers and...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

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11/08/2017

... generation already has more health issues and health- related limits on their lives than prior generations did when ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Aging

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New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

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11/08/2017

... generation already has more health issues and health- related limits on their lives than prior generations did when ...

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