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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Elects Dr. Francine Berman to Board of Trustees

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01/22/2015

... Engineers. She is the Chair of the U.S. branch of the Research Data Alliance, a community-driven, international consortium working to accelerate research data-sharing and exchange. Dr. Berman is also Chair...

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Inside the Russell Sage Foundation

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04/15/2015

... dig into the inequities of the second Gilded Age, with research grants going to scholars across the country who've ... by academics, and it doesn't support advocacy. But its research has played a...

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Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U.S. Starts with Preschool

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04/30/2015

... a left-leaning think tank, and the Poverty &Race Research Action Council, a civil rights organization. “But ...

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William T. Grant Foundation-Funded Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying

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05/01/2015

... Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying New research suggests that the consequences from being bullied by ...

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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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Mellon Foundation Contributes to 'THATcamp' on Humanities and Technology

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04/21/2016

... – broadly defined as the use of technology in the research and teaching of humanities. The Central New York ... brief presentations on their technology-based teaching or research projects... Mellon Foundation...

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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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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

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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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Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows

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08/30/2017

... earliest students, according to a new study conducted by research firm MDRC. The analysis, funded by Success as part ...

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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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Tow Foundation Funded News Integrity Initiative Awards $1.8 Million to Build Support for Quality Journalism

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10/04/2017

... support for quality journalism through grants, applied research , events and training. “This first group of grants ... vision by offering inspiring ideas, practical tools and research for newsrooms and...

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