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Bloomberg Philanthropies Self-Driving Cars Initiative Launches in Nashville and Five Other Cities

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10/25/2016

... Paris and Buenos Aires, along with five other cities to be added this year. The cities will have access to data and ...

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Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust

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11/22/2016

... a renewal of the largest research gift in the Institute’ s 56-year history — that will be used to continue exploring an ambitious range of projects ... Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine, which enables Salk...

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Inside Pinkerton, a Low Profile Anti-Poverty Foundation

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12/21/2016

... Pinkerton, a Low Profile Anti-Poverty Foundation What' s in a name? Well, the Pinkerton Foundation in New York City draws its name from what was once the nation' s oldest and largest security company...

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Princeton Project Funded by Two PNY Members Reveals Insight into Behavior-Change Campaigns

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01/20/2017

... Behavior-Change Campaigns The William T. Grant Foundation' s Scholars Program and the Russell Sage Foundation fund a ... results suggest that behavior-change campaigns may be made more effective when they...

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1.02 Million to New Critical Theory Initiative

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03/30/2017

Using a $1.02 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Northwestern will collaborate with worldwide professionals to develop a curriculum on critical theory, a stream of philosophy that critiques the ways culture is formed and discussed.

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New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course

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04/27/2017

... and served under President Obama as director of the U. S . Agency for International Development, which distributes money to nonprofits working overseas. What may be just as important in his new role, however,...

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United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative

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04/28/2017

United Hospital Fund announced today that it is launching Stage II of its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative to improve antibiotic prescribing for outpatients across New York City, working with seven hospitals and health systems...

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New York Stem Cell Foundation HQ is a Linchpin for Biotech

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05/05/2017

... a Linchpin for Biotech The New York Stem Cell Foundation' s $22 million, 40,000-square-foot headquarters on West 54th ... last month, represents founder and CEO Susan L. Solomon' s grand effort to...

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

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Atlantic Philanthropies Publishes “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic"

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05/31/2017

In “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic,” historian Benjamin Soskis writes that Giving While Living is a more complex phenomenon than that three-word slogan would suggest.

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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

... enactment of justice reforms in many states, the nation’ s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in ...

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The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/11/2017

... during the past few years to improve an underperforming U. S . environmental movement. Starting in 2013, Overbrook ...

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Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries

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08/18/2017

... Criminal Justice, Yesterday and Today” to be held in October. The Westchester Community Foundation ... and connect it to a cellblock built in 1825. Visitors will be invited to experience what it must have been...

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Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment

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08/31/2017

... folks who live in big fancy condominiums. But that’ s not the truth” de Blasio said during the Manhattan bill ...

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Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa

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09/05/2017

Africa contributes only 4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while six of the 10 most affected countries by climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, while stressing the urgent need to...

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Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting

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09/05/2017

... Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting Scores of the nation’ s major philanthropists will gather in New York next month to ... hold new gatherings that promise to update what used to be the philanthropic get-...

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Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy

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09/06/2017

... from municipalities and states over President Donald Trump' s immigration policies — specifically the use of courts to ... announced that his office is also working on a policy, to be implemented in the...

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Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case

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09/11/2017

... Island three years ago. The CCRB sent letters to Garner’ s family and the NYPD notifying them of the long-awaited ... untaxed cigarettes that led to the 43-year-old man’ s death in July 2014 has been the...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation CEO Comments On Federal Debt Passing $20 Trillion For First Time

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09/12/2017

... On Federal Debt Passing $20 Trillion For First Time The U. S . federal government' s gross debt surpassed $20 trillion on Friday, according to a .....

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The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

The NYPD' s Growing DNA Database Raises Concern The NYPD is ... increasingly turning to DNA to help solve crimes. And it' s worked: The science has helped develop investigative leads ... article, co-...

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