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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

... in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The ... study was published in the November 30, 2017 issue of the New England Journal of...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Shows That Medicaid, Medicare Accounted for 59% of Health Care Revenue for Largest Insurers

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12/07/2017

... Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Humana), according to a new Health Affairs study supported by the Commonwealth Fund. ... and Medicare in the same geographic area. Nevada and New York have such requirements for Medicaid...

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Russell Sage Foundation Trustee Hiro Yoshikawa and Former Visiting Scholar J. Lawrence Aber Win MacArthur Foundation Grant

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12/21/2017

... of the Sesame-IRC team are RSF trustee Hiro Yoshikawa ( New York University) and former RSF visiting scholar J. Lawrence Aber ( New York University). Yoshikawa is co-author of the RSF ... Aber are childhood...

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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

... 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 ... Fenton, a professor in the...

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Salesforce.org Continues Its Commitment to Public Schools

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04/09/2018

... Public Schools About a year ago, Salesforce opened a new hub in Indianapolis, which is slated to be the ... company’s largest base outside San Francisco. With the new location, Salesforce is continuing CEO...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants $1.3 Million to Support Recovery and Resilience for Puerto Rico's Underserved Healthcare Centers

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08/02/2018

... Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced new funding to The Solar Foundation and Direct Relief ... hit by unreliable power, including unexpected outages. Two new Helmsley grants will help...

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ascena Foundation Honors Winners of the 2018 Roslyn S. Jaffe Awards

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10/19/2018

... which took place yesterday at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City, emceed by acclaimed journalist and ... The annual program, now in its fifth year, added a new award category, the Young Changemaker Award...

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JPMorgan Chase Launches Loan Fund to Boost Minority Entrepreneurs

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02/13/2019

... JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is spearheading a new $6.65 million investment fund aimed at helping minority ... in Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and the South Bronx in New York City. But the ...

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Pershing Square Sohn Prize Awards $4.2M to Seven “Next Generation” Innovators in Cancer Research

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05/21/2019

... in Cancer Research , awarded annually to talented New York City-area cancer research scientists and ... of their promising careers, the recipients are growing New York City as a biomedical research hub. In...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

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02/14/2020

... the Center plans to launch a number of projects including new humanities labs; new and enhanced grants for faculty, postdocs, and graduate ... and course development. The grant funds will support new...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Adds Finance Veteran Marc Chennault to Its Board

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06/23/2020

... Adds Finance Veteran Marc Chennault to Its Board NEW YORK, NY—June 23, 2020—The Joan Mitchell Foundation ... sits on the Board of The Reciprocity Foundation, a New York-based non-profit focused on holistic...

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Weinberg Foundation Announces Additional $5 Million to Expand and Strengthen Baltimore Library Project

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12/10/2020

... total commitment to this initiative to $15 million. The new funding will provide operating support for the existing ... as well as capital funds for the development of four new libraries through 2023. The...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Foundation Honored with Distinguished Service Award by American Academy of Ophthalmology

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11/13/2015

... in the United States. Most recently, he served as president of the International Council of Ophthalmology, ...

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Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Partner to Strengthen Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts

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11/12/2020

... to earn a bachelor’s degree,” said Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation . “By helping students ... liberal arts colleges,” said Michael Murray, President of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations...

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