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Research to Prevent Blindness-Supported Researchers Will Be Integral Part of Latest Effort Within NEI’s Audacious Goals Initiative

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11/06/2018

... Will Be Integral Part of Latest Effort Within NEI’ s Audacious Goals Initiative Ten researchers who have been ... Will Be Integral Part of Latest Effort Within NEI’ s Audacious Goals Initiative ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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New York Life Foundation Supports Ozone Park Students Learning about Start-up Businesses

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10/23/2015

New York Life Foundation Supports Ozone Park Students Learning about Start-up ... a pilot program that brings entrepreneurial and technology resources to teach students real-world business skills, in an ... the...

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Community Development

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Rockefeller, JPMorgan Chase Foundation Support 100,000 Opportunities Hiring Fair & Forum in LA

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02/24/2016

... LA The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, the nation’ s largest employer-led coalition committed to creating ... Chipotle, HMS Host, Lyft, Nordstrom, Papa John’ s , Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Sweetgreen, Taco Bell,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Mellon Foundation Grant to USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to Support Digital Collection for Dance Heritage

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06/08/2018

... Festival, the digital resource captures many facets of U. S . and global dance heritage.... Mellon Foundation Grant ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Hyde and Watson Foundation Supports Vision Loss Alliance of NJ's Technology Learning Lab

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08/31/2019

Hyde and Watson Foundation Supports Vision Loss Alliance of NJ' s Technology Learning Lab DENVILLE TWP. - Thanks to grants ... and Watson Foundation Supports Vision Loss Alliance of NJ...

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The Hyde and Watson Foundation

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The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal

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05/13/2015

The Mayor' s Fund to Advance New York Launches Relief Effort to Support ... that struck Nepal through the end of May via the Mayor’ s Fund to Advance New York City, the Mayor’ s office .....

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Disaster Relief

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Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City

With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

... next year. The land, which runs along the Blue Mountain' s Kittatinny Ridge, is being acquired from Pennsylvania ... American Water and will eventually be turned over to the U. S . Fish and Wildlife...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

09 Feb 2012

International Grantmakers Network: Providing Capacity-Building Support for International Grantees (Part II)

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7:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York’ s International Grantmakers Network is hosting a two-part ... focus on specific issues and participation in the earlier meeting is not required. Explore Strategies to help ...

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Pershing Square Foundation-Supported Study: 5% Weight Loss Can Make A Difference for Obese People

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02/23/2016

For those who struggle with obesity, losing as little as 5% of body weight is enough to reap significant health benefits, according to a study published February 22 in Cell Metabolism.

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound Essential to Formation of Life on Earth

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11/07/2017

... to scientists as DAP, could have been present in Earth’ s early days and responsible for phosphorylation. “We ...

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Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body

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02/06/2018

... a two-step, kneejerk response that first widens the animal' s center of gravity, and then strengthens and stabilizes its ... unexpected changes occur beneath their feet. "Whether it' s tripping...

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Supported By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Scientists Create New Therapeutic Gel That Shows Promise Against Cancerous Tumors

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02/22/2018

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and NC State have created an injectable gel-like scaffold that can hold combination chemo-immunotherapeutic drugs and deliver them locally to tumors in a sequential manner.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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With Support From Tiffany & Co., Virtual Reality Project, "My Africa," To Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival

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03/12/2018

... at the Tribeca Film Festival Conservation International' s newest virtual reality project, "My Africa," has been ... where a community is reknitting the bonds that have long enabled people and...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Animal Welfare

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New Documentary Supported by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Highlights the Unseen Side of Silicon Valley

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03/14/2018

... the Unseen Side of Silicon Valley San Francisco Bay Area’ s Silicon Valley is a region that has spawned or nurtured not ... of innovation. The full scope and drama of the region’ s evolution will be revealed...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Technology

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Research Supported by The Helmsley Charitable Trust Grant Provides New Insight Into Neurological Disorders

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04/17/2018

... Disorders Many neurological disorders—Alzheimer’ s , schizophrenia, autism, even depression—have lagged ... and therapeutic purposes, these model systems are still a long way from representing the complexity of...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

... for why the sticks refused to snap in two. Feynman’ s kitchen experiment remained unresolved until 2005, when ... to describe the forces at work when spaghetti — and any long , thin rod — is bent. They found...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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MetLife, Deutsche Bank, Surdna, Moody’s, Pershing Square and Others Supporting Launch of Microlender Kiva NYC

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12/11/2015

MetLife, Deutsche Bank, Surdna, Moody’ s , Pershing Square and Others Supporting Launch of ... borrowers and former President Bill Clinton. "The world needs two things more than anything else. It needs...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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Pershing Square Foundation

Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies

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02/15/2017

Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems ... somewhere in the middle... Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid ... he accidentally spilled some of the material. . . Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid ...

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