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Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science

Release Date:

10/16/2015

... towards math to their students’ math performance. These new findings demonstrate that structured, positive ... between parents’ uneasiness about math and children’ s low math achievement. To read the full...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Technology

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Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

Release Date:

10/20/2015

... laws, and stronger enforcement of those laws. That’ s why, since 2007, Bloomberg Philanthropies has been working ... that together account for more than half of the world’ s road deaths. Last year, we expanded...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Aetna Foundation President Writes on Turning the Clock Forward on Health Disparities, City Block by City Block

Release Date:

10/20/2015

... City Block by City Block In America today, a person’ s ability to lead a long, healthy life is so impacted by where they live that it’ s startling. You don’t need to travel to a developing ... how long the...

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MetLife Foundation Supports Expansion of Green Schoolyard Initiative

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10/20/2015

... Dr. William R. Hite, Jr., and The Trust for Public Land’ s Jeff Danter, Senior Vice President and Atlantic Seaboard ... Division Director, announced the expansion of the City’ s innovative Green2015...

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Community Development

Environment and Climate Change

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MetLife

Duke & Mellon Foundations Sponsor Provocative Dance Work on the Legacy of Confederate Symbolism

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11/19/2015

... Wideman/Davis Dance, the UofSC Dance Program’ s resident professional dance company, will present their ... of South Carolina Dance Program, Ruptured Silence is a new media and dance performance that examines...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Mellon Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies: What C40's Report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, Means to Paris Climate Summit

Release Date:

11/25/2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies: What C40' s Report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, Means to Paris Climate Summit C40’ s new report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, contains .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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Public Policy

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Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals

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12/15/2015

... amygdala, a small structure at the front end of the brain' s temporal lobe, has long been associated with negative ... behaviors generally, and specifically with fear. But new research from Michael Platt...

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Science

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Peterson Foundation Calls Tax Extenders Legislation Fiscally Irresponsible

Release Date:

12/17/2015

... plus the additional interest required to finance that new debt. Over the next two decades, estimates suggest that ... bill is a big step in the wrong direction for our nation’ s fiscal and economic health...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Public Policy

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

02/03/2016

... of researchers who generated stem cells from a patient' s skin cells and then repaired the damaged gene, RPGR, using CRISPR/Cas9, a new gene-editing technology. The technique is so precise it ... the...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits

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02/11/2016

... 2014 Brooklyn Insights project, the foundation created a new vision, mission, and strategy that resonates not only in ... $1 million to our Community Fund last year. Now it’ s full steam ahead. The launch of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

JP Morgan Chase Report Addresses Summer Youth Employment Deficit

Release Date:

02/25/2016

... business sector and with a skills focus, which can open new pathways to future career options. They are working ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches Conversation-for-Action Series, Insight Dialogues

Release Date:

04/28/2016

... action around the most pressing issues of our time. The new series will facilitate an exchange of ideas and inform the Foundation' s ongoing work to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable .....

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Rethinking Scholarships As a Force for Social Justice

Release Date:

05/04/2016

... This post originally appeared on the Ford Foundation’ s Equals Change blog . Stanford University made headlines ... million gift from Nike founder Phil Knight to support a new graduate scholarship program...

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Insights

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HSC Calls for Comments on Fair Labor Standards Act Effects on Nonprofits

Release Date:

11/28/2016

... on Nonprofits As nonprofits prepare to comply with the new Fair Labor Standards Act rule on exempt employee status, ... to sign onto this letter, please send your organization' s logo to Tracie Robinson...

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RFPs Etc

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Longtime Director June Makela Steps Down as Lorraine Marasigan Promoted to Lead the Norman Foundation

Release Date:

12/12/2016

... and activism to help shape the family foundation’ s strategic vision. Under her leadership, the Norman ... To ensure the continued commitment to the Foundation’ s social justice legacy, Makela helped the...

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Norman Foundation

16 Feb 2017

Spark Session: Readying Your Community Foundation to Serve Philanthropic Families - Webinar

Thursday, February 16, 2017 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... services. The webinar will also preview NCFP’ s two new tools for community foundations: a self-assessment ...

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BNY Mellon and United Nations Foundation Publish Report for Advancing Gender Equality

Release Date:

01/26/2017

... than three million people around the country -- that' s one out of every 100 Americans -- and upwards of another ... many of those same people woke up and asked, "What' s next?" Supporters...

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Gender Justice

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09 Mar 2017

Secret Film Screening & Funder Discussion of Sundance Award-Winning Documentary

Thursday, March 9, 2017 -

4:30pm to 7:00pm

This program is a part of our new Climate Change Series. We invite you to join ... with the filmmaker and the production company' s impact director about strategies for shifting awareness, .....

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