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With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

... Ploughshares Fund, which has been investing heavily this year in work with hefty support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In March, RBF gave Ploughshares a one- year $500,000 grant specifically for its Iran...

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Simons Grantees Win Top Mathematics Honors

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08/13/2014

... the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). This year ’s medalists, Manjul Bhargava, Maryam Mirzakhani, Artur ...

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Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College

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03/16/2015

... the president of LaGuardia Community College, a two- year institution in Queens with 50,000 students, received an ... and come from families that earn less than $25,000 a year .... Goldman Sachs Contributes $2...

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Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

... and the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. This year 's prize-winners will each receive $200,000 per year for up to three years to enable them to pursue .....

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NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

... be split over two years, with $95,000 awarded in the first year and $55,000 in the second year ... NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Pershing Square, New York Community Trust Awards Funding to Seven NYC-Based Cancer Research Scientists

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05/05/2016

... Sohn Prize”). Each will receive $200,000 in funding per year for up to three years to enable them to continue to ... addition to six winners fully funded by the Alliance, this year marks the formation of a...

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City Council to Examine Young Men's Initiative Funded by Bloomberg and Open Society Foundations

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09/21/2016

On Wednesday, about five years after the launch of the Young Men’s Initiative, the City Council will hold an oversight hearing to examine the status of YMI and its effectiveness nearly three years into the de Blasio administration.

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Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Now Accepting Applications for the 2017 Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research

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10/03/2016

... in Cancer Research. The prize of $200,000 per year for up to three years is awarded annually to at least ... traditional funding is lacking. Now entering its fourth year , the highly competitive Prize aims to...

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Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative

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10/13/2016

... to encourage higher-quality training statewide. In a fifth year and in earlier reports, an independent study will ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research on Planetary Evolution

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03/16/2017

An enormous young planet approximately 300 light-years from Earth has given astrophysicists a rare glimpse into planetary evolution.

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As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check

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08/28/2017

... two large schools have announced plans to shut down this year — despite backing by major for-profit education ...

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Eight Top 10 Lists From New York City’s 2017 State Test Scores

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08/29/2017

... scores in New York City continued their upward march this year , with small gains in average English and math scores — ... a cause for celebration among city officials. Unlike last year ’s scores, which came...

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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... million over four years. One in 5 New Yorkers in any given year will experience mental illness. One in 5 New Yorkers, ... $14 billion in estimated productivity losses every year . ThriveNYC is trying to tackle...

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Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications

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09/11/2017

... or on paleontological records will not be considered this year . Investigators with backgrounds in different fields are ... in a U.S. or Canadian institution for at least one year and no more than eight years...

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Adding Pantries and Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods

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09/12/2017

... Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods Over the past year , New York City’s three biggest providers of emergency ... and produce to help feed more than 1 million people each year — was troubling,...

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JP Morgan Chase Investing $40M in Chicago's Underserved Neighborhoods

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09/15/2017

... program to address Detroit's economic woes. Earlier this year , Chase boosted that pledge to $150 million to build .....

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A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.

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09/21/2017

... of 414,000 businesses were formed in 2015, the latest year surveyed, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. It was a slight increase from the previous year , but well below the 558,000 companies given birth in...

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By Age 3, Inequality Is Clear: Rich Kids Attend School. Poor Kids Stay with a Grandparent

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09/28/2017

... with a Grandparent Limos and nannies drop off 3- and 4- year -olds every weekday morning at New York City's most exclusive preschools. Tuition is more than $30,000 a year . The schools boast that young kids...

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

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10/05/2017

... the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4- year -olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k ... are offering programs targeted at even younger toddlers: 3- year -olds. The first phase...

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