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Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art

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02/16/2016

... the Americas at The Fralin, as well as the University’ s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. The grant is the ... the hiring of two new curators for the University’ s impressive collections of indigenous art...

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Tow Foundation Announces Six Playwright Residencies

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02/25/2016

... their respective sponsor theatre company. This year’ s recipients are Rachel Bonds at Ars Nova; Paola ...

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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

New study published in Clinical Cancer Research details the discovery of a biomarker that puts patients at a higher risk for metastasis of uveal melanoma.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas

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03/09/2016

A new study comparing accountable care organizations (ACOs) that include hospitals in their networks to those that do not finds hospitals that are in urban areas, are nonprofit, or have a relatively small share of Medicare patients are more likely...

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IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)

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03/11/2016

Indiana University has joined a national consortium, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, to improve the teaching skills of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the diversity of future university...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Dodge Foundation Suports NJ Schools Grants for Field Trips in Pilot Program

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03/14/2016

The Community Foundation of New Jersey and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation are announcing today that their pilot program, Field Trip New Jersey, has awarded more than $45,000 in grants to schools supporting educational field trips.

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Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council

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03/21/2016

Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’ s Women’ s Leadership Council The United Way of New York City’ s Women’ s Leadership Council’ s held it’ s...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers

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04/13/2016

... and referrals through two staffers. The division' s coordinator would conduct research on the home-care .....

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Spark Prize to Honor Nonprofit Changemakers

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04/20/2016

... of its kind celebrating changemakers in the borough’ s thriving nonprofit sector. Five organizations will each ... created the Spark Prize to drive support to the borough’ s nonprofit sector and showcase...

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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... programs inCalifornia. Reich will guide the foundation' s BUILD efforts in the United States and across its 10 .....

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Carnegie Backs New Learning Pilot Targeting Interstate Passport Initiative

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06/10/2016

... process in support of the Interstate Passport Initiative‘ s new framework for the block transfer of lower-division ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Judith Rodin Steps Down as Head of Rockefeller Foundation

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06/16/2016

... Karp, chief executive of Silicon Valley’ s Palantir Technologies Inc. Ms. Rodin praised Mr. Karp for ...

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Ford and MacArthur-Backed Survey Finds That Young Voters From Newer Immigrant Families Lean More Liberal

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09/09/2016

... 72 percent of those whose families have been in the U. S . longer agree. Eighty-five percent of first and second ... legal citizens, I think it gives the viewpoint that the U. S . cares," said Juan Tavares...

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration

Release Date:

12/13/2016

... state Supreme Court ruling and an edict from New Jersey’ s education commissioner to force the merger of Morristown ... shifting demographics, to become an anchor of Morristown’ s economic renaissance and,...

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Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead

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12/15/2016

... rights. As my colleague Eric Levitz explains, Sessions’ s entrenched position in the very last ditch of support for ...

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An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools

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12/22/2016

... but fewer focus on ensuring such access to the nation’ s top institutions of higher education. Of course, there' s been lots of talk about exactly this challenge: How to open ... low- and moderate-income...

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’ s Blindness The project will, among other things, help ... at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’ s Hospital . “It’ s very tough losing...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

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01/12/2017

The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation has announced a $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the World Wide Web.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Communications/Media

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

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01/18/2017

... Conference On Monday, February 6, Robin Hood , New York' s largest poverty-fighting organization, and the Russell Sage Foundation , the nation' s premier foundation devoted to social science research...

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