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Rockefeller Foundation Recognizes Pioneers for Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture in Rwanda

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10/05/2015

... as the winner of the 2015 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller ... with the $10,000 “Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the...

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The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

In more than a decade of research on nonprofit leadership, The Bridgespan Group has ... twice as often as the next concern. Our most recent research provides a clue as to why. Only 30 percent of ...

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Ford Foundation-Backed Incubator Generates $100M in Loans, Nearly $1M in Savings

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02/11/2016

... new report details how an incubator created by the Filene Research Institute, with funding from Ford Foundation, ... financial products,” said George Hofheimer, chief research officer for Filene. “We sought to...

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Greenwall Study Says Decision Makers Hold Overly Optimistic Expectations for Critically Ill Patient Outcomes

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05/17/2016

... optimistic beliefs about the patient’s prognosis. The research team anticipates that this finding will help in ...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2016 Scholars

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06/30/2016

... seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research holds great promise for revealing new pathways to ... annually for a maximum of five years to pursue innovative research on the development and...

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Simons Foundation Continues Quest to Understand and Treat Autism on Both Ends of the Spectrum

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07/19/2016

... autism in the U.S., the Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge (SPARK). The goal is to gather DNA ...

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Russell Sage Survey Finds Fear of Other People Is Now Primary Motivation for American Gun Ownership

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09/19/2016

A momentous shift in what kinds of firearms Americans are owning — and why — has huge implications for public health.

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

... 50 percent of their total effort to the direct conduct of research ... Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty ...

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Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel

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11/29/2016

... was funded by the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned ...

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UJA-Federation of New York Convenes Panel on Growing Poverty on Long Island

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01/30/2017

... Social Services. The Keynote was given by Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Social policy at the Hebrew ...

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Supported by Sloan Foundation, Study Finds New Quantum Liquid Crystals May Play Role in Future of Computers

Release Date:

04/21/2017

... was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Research Office's Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, the Alfred P. Sloan .....

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Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa

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09/05/2017

... climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, while stressing the ... of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) System...

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Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

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09/05/2017

... If confirmed, Clovis would oversee the agency's $3 billion research budget, which funds, among other things, research to help farmers and ranchers adapt to climate .....

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Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

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09/28/2017

... B. Anderson, associate university librarian for research and learning at Vanderbilt University; and Bernard Reilly, president of the Center for Research Libraries—will work with participants to examine ...

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The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation

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07/06/2018

... pain, as well as pain management and how to translate that research into new therapies. The Mayday Fund, which supports ...

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Supported in Part by Ford Foundation, Smithsonian Launches American Women’s History Initiative

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11/14/2018

... the nation’s most comprehensive undertaking to document, research , collect, display and share the rich, complete and ... in America. It will greatly increase the Smithsonian’s research and programming related...

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Philanthropy’s Response To Hurricane Sandy

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11/08/2012

... be updated frequently over the coming weeks with news on resources , initiatives and stories of impact. If you know of any philanthropic activities or resources related to Hurricane Sandy that we haven’t listed...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Brooklyn Accelerator

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02/06/2015

... information, idea exchange, and gathering of philanthropic resources across the borough. “The idea for the Brooklyn ... local nonprofits. Nonprofits are always seeking more resources , donors, and board members...

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Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism

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08/03/2015

... projects that address inequality in access to natural resources and social injustice which have been linked to ... grant, says limited rights to access and use of natural resources to generate wealth by...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Names Atlanta and Seattle First Winners American Cities Climate Challenge

Release Date:

09/21/2018

... into a two-year acceleration program with powerful new resources and access to cutting-edge support to help them ... or beat – their near-term carbon reduction goals. These resources include a philanthropy-...

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