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Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative

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04/04/2017

Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation' s SPARK Initiative Autism has a strong genetic component. To ... a least an additional 300 are involved. But to identify all the genes at play, many...

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In Memory of Former Century Foundation President Janice Nittoli

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07/03/2017

... Century Foundation from 2011 to 2014 and was much loved by all of us here at TCF. Janice was a warm and passionate ... and more dynamic public policy presence, recruiting new fellows, stabilizing the endowment...

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’ s population – are covered by at least one comprehensive ... life- and cost-saving interventions, according to the new WHO report on the global tobacco...

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... rooms for people who would be better served in treatment. New city police recruits have for years undergone some crisis ... intervention training, but a report last summer from the U. S . Department of Justice...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when ...

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... had been convinced the providers would renew. After all , they had done so innumerable times in the past. But as a new federal administration took over, it became clear the ... more on top of things. In...

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The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering

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09/07/2017

... Volunteering ver the past decade, businesses of all kinds have become much more socially aware and active. In ... as corporate giving and volunteer programs, as well as new efforts such as impact investing and...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

From the Ground Up Top-down development doesn't work. What' s needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and ... forces traditionally dictate developmental agendas that, all too...

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Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation

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09/12/2017

... and those undertaking longer journeys. Most vulnerable of all are those who, like Mohammad, come from sub-Saharan Africa. These findings come from a new UNICEF and International Organization for Migration (IOM...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

Study: Giving Leads to Happiness The adage says it’ s better to give than to receive. But is it really? The ... there may be some biological truth to the maxim after all . The study showed that generosity changed...

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books For all of Sunset Park’ s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque ... of computers, indulging in a world of knowledge that many New...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched ... brain works by focusing on a single behaviour shared by all animals: foraging. The...

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Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs

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10/06/2017

... around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’ s Youth Arts Initiative. The initiative is based on Something ... Three years later, researchers found that each of the new programs met all...

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Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... employee diversity and carbon footprint reduction are all examples of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that ... for a chief executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the University of...

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Toshiba America Foundation Announces $110,000 for 11 Innovative Classroom STEM Projects

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01/16/2018

... water & soil quality, and combatting homelessness – all novel ways to utilize STEM in order to give back to the ... valid field studies. They will also monitor two new organic landscapes that were...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Teagle Foundation Names Andrew Delbanco Next President

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03/22/2018

... public role in discussions of higher education. He has a new book coming out this fall, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’ s Soul From the Revolution to the Civil War, to be...

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How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR

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05/04/2018

... out and an outside in perspective”—using the company’ s skills to work on a community’ s problem and accepting ... the company chose to remain in its hometown city, Newark, New Jersey, since...

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Harriet and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces $12 Million Grant to Make Camps More Accessible

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10/05/2018

... to the Foundation for Jewish Camp that will support a new initiative to increase accessibility for campers and ... that works with more than 250 day and overnight camps from all streams of Jewish belief and...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Study Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Antimicrobial Paints Have a Blind Spot

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05/13/2019

... that these paints might be doing more harm than good. In a new study, the researchers tested bacteria commonly found ... antimicrobial, synthetic latex paints. Within 24 hours, all bacteria died except for...

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