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27 Jan 2021

Connected? Broadband Access Remains a Challenge - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... individuals. Those without access to this online world – more than 18 million Americans, with 14 million living in ...

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Economic Security

Commonwealth Explores Ramifications of Higher Premiums for Older Adults

Release Date:

09/15/2015

... Under the ACA, people age 64 and older cannot be charged more than three times as much as 21- to 24-year-olds for the ... (which are regulated differently). We found that while more —mostly younger—people would...

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Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... over the two periods, the greatest rise in any age group. More troublingly, the proportion of older adults engaged in ... The researchers’ definition: for a man, downing five or more standard drinks in a day (...

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Aging

Lukemia Drug Shows Promise for Treating a Childhood Brain Cancer, Research Supported by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award

Release Date:

09/20/2019

... drug used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia appears to be more effective at stopping a type of medulloblastoma in mouse ... Hedgehog pathway, via two different mechanisms, making it more effective and less...

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Doris Duke Foundation

Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

Release Date:

08/02/2019

... scaffolds construct in nature can help prospect for new classes of antibiotics through DNA sequencing and genome ... in St. Louis. “In the long term, we really need new structural classes of antibiotics that...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Pfizer Foundation Supports Vaccine Coverage in Africa to Reduce Child Mortality Rate

Release Date:

09/19/2014

... International Rescue Committee. The grants will focus on building the capacity of health care systems within the five ...

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Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

Release Date:

07/02/2015

... of the future that puts the needs of the poor first - by building a clean energy future from the bottom up.... Why ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace

Release Date:

12/16/2015

... in a $190 million renovation of the Ford Foundation Building , 320 East 43rd Street in Manhattan, that is expected ...

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Atlantic Announces $40M for Fellowship to Reduce International Health Disparities

Release Date:

02/01/2016

Atlantic Philanthropies, in its last year of grantmaking, announced a number of major investments to improve access to quality health care for people in both Southeast Asia and the United States.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Launches Initiative to Protect Refugee Children in Greece

Release Date:

03/29/2016

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, in partnership with the European Programme for Integration and Migration, is launching a grant initiative to support nongovernmental organizations working to protect refugee children arriving in Greece.

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Children, Youth and Families

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Artists, Investors and Innovators Join Together to Launch Upstart Co-Lab

Release Date:

04/14/2016

Upstart is funded by Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Surdna Foundation with in-kind support from the F.B. Heron Foundation. Upstart is a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Arts

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Alfred P. Sloan, Time Warner 'Fast Track Grant' Goes To Film That Explores Science and Technology

Release Date:

06/07/2016

Film Independent Selects 10 Projects And 20 Filmakers For 2016 Fast Track Program And Awards $20K Alfred P. Sloan Fast Track Grant To Mark Levinson For 'The Gold Bug Variations'

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Arts

Open Call For Collaborative Reporting Projects

Release Date:

05/10/2017

The Rita Allen Foundation is supporting the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University to launch an open call for collaborative reporting projects.

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RFPs Etc

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Communications/Media

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Rita Allen Foundation

NoVo’s Radical Hope Fund a Result of Radical Listening

Release Date:

08/17/2017

... Now, they are looking to support transnational movement building with the launch of the Radical Hope Fund. Radical ...

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Artists Behind ‘Tribute in Light’ 9/11 Memorial Continue to Inspire: ‘People Could Start Looking Up Again’

Release Date:

09/11/2017

On the night of September 11, 2001, artists Paul Myoda and Julian LaVerdiere watched from Brooklyn as an ashy and gaseous cloud formed over the remnants of the World Trade Center.

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Arts

Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

Release Date:

09/22/2017

A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change.

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