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William T. Grant Foundation Awards Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants to Three New York City Nonprofits

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05/07/2020

... be going to these three terrific organizations to build their capacity to serve communities that are furthest from ...

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Sealaska Heritage Institute Receives Grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Launch Totem Pole Trail

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12/20/2021

... planning of the project. The clans will be selecting their designs to be included on the poles in the next few ...

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International Genome Research Partnership Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation)

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02/03/2016

A massive international research partnership has sequenced the entire genome of the common bed bug, uncovering several traits that also could reveal why they’re so resistant to pesticides.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Gould Foundation’s Tyre is Author of In-Depth Atlantic Investigative Piece on Math and Low-Income Students

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02/12/2016

... in low voices and obsessively refreshing the browsers on their laptops. The air in the cavernous lobby of the Lotus ...

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Open Society Foundations Releases Video Showing A New Outlook on Growing Up Intersex

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02/27/2017

Open Society Foundations Releases Video Showing A New Outlook on Growing ... needs fixing is society’s stigma ... Open Society Foundations Releases Video Showing A New Outlook on Growing ...

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Gates Foundation Releases New Virtual Reality Game to Highlight Life-Saving Innovations

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04/13/2017

This is the benefactor who built chicken coops inside a Manhattan high-rise, released mosquitoes on an unsuspecting audience, and drank purified poop water—all to make some larger point more memorable.

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NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars

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08/14/2017

This next health care fork in the road is the pending reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance program (SCHIP), writes NY State Health Foundation President and CEO David Sandman.

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Russell Sage Foundation Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives To Four-Year College Degrees

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10/23/2017

... kids crazy. Even high-achieving students worry about their rankings and strive to improve them in hopes of college ...

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

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11/01/2017

Bard College plans to launch a “microcollege” at the Brooklyn Public Library and will be free for students, aiming to attract talented low-income applicants who haven’t sought degrees due to the pricetag or personal hardships

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While Announcing Main Branch Renovations, NYPL Notes Mid-Manhattan Library to Be Renamed for Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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11/16/2017

The New York Public Library revealed the $317 million master plan that will guide the renovation of the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

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Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers

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11/29/2017

The nonprofit’s Quill Connect tool, designed to improve students’ writing skills through online exercises, uses machine learning to help them create better sentences.

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

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11/30/2017

... early interventions for children with obesity to minimize their risk of serious illness in the future.” The ...

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Research Funded By The Russell Sage Foundation Shows Why Paid Family Leave Laws Could Hurt SNF Census

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01/11/2018

... paid time off to care for family members, receiving 55% of their actual salaries up to $1,104 per week. Between 1999 and ...

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

Mice with the genetic defect that causes Fragile X syndrome (FXS) learn and remember normally, but show an inability to learn new information that contradicts what they initially learned, a new study shows. FXS is the most common genetic cause of...

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Novo Foundation Launches New Website and Film Series,The Life Story: Moments of Change

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02/01/2018

... life is often marked by moments when systems fail them and their communities. And for too many, these failures lead to ...

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New Report Funded by JPB Foundation says u.S. Cities Can save Billions with Green, Resilient Design

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02/08/2018

A new report released yesterday stresses that making it a de facto policy for U.S. cities would be a cost-effective design solution that could save millions, and even billions, of dollars.

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Freedom Together Foundation

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New Study, Supported By The Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, Finds College Brings Significant Benefits to Single Mothers and Society

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06/06/2018

... Single mothers who complete BAs earn $610,300 more over their lifetimes and are 69 percent less likely to live in ... graduate, however, institutions must focus on increasing their completion to ensure that...

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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

... wave, or vibration, that further fractures the stick. Their theory, which won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize , seemed to ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Supported by The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New Report Finds Even Light Drinking Increases Risk of Death

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10/03/2018

Analyzing data from more than 400,000 people ages 18 to 85, the researchers found that consuming one to two drinks four or more times per week -- an amount deemed healthy by current guidelines -- increases the risk of premature death by 20 percent,...

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