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Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline

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09/09/2016

... authoritative information on what has been learned from research , data, and practical experience about disciplinary ... from and were commissioned by the Discipline Disparities Research -to-Practice...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Education

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MAC AIDS Fund Supports Efforts to Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African-American Women

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01/27/2017

... them sexual health options and also embarking on a path of research ,” says Linda Blout, president of Black Women’s ... and Drug Administration in 2012 to prevent HIV infection. Research conducted in Africa,...

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

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01/18/2017

... the nation's premier foundation devoted to social science research , will host their first annual Poverty Solutions .....

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and Others Launch $14M Fund To Support News Integrity

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04/03/2017

... the public conversation. The Initiative will fund applied research and projects, and convene meetings with industry ... the activities of the News Integrity Initiative, including research , special projects and...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

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04/03/2017

... $5.2 million to the Australasian Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation and the Chinese University of Hong Kong ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement

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05/19/2017

... found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey also found that African- Americans and ... less than whites with similar education and experience, research shows... Alfred P. Sloan...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

The researchers say pediatricians may want to counsel parents of high birthweight babies early on to prevent the onset of obesity and the health problems it eventually brings.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

... particles that interact only weakly with matter. The research , performed at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source and ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

A new study by researchers at Duke University, for example, found that “implicit weight bias” in children ages 9 to 11 was as common as “implicit racial bias” is among adults.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data

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09/12/2017

... successes. “A consistent pattern has emerged from this research ,” wrote University of Michigan professor of ...

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Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches

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09/13/2017

... scrambling to win a competition for a new city-incubated research campus. During the run-up to the opening, officials ... entrepreneurs and business leaders in a setting to advance research and business start-...

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

... a movement for social change. In this article, we build on research on social change,1 including our own research ,2 for which we studied hundreds of social change ...

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Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island

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09/26/2017

... which pairs graduate students with “clients” for research projects. Ms. Brennan’s office soon began to coordinate an opioid-related research project between Columbia’s School of International ...

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

... for dinner”). They take advantage of taxpayer-funded research at state universities. Prison inmates raise cattle ... Philanthropy Project, The Greenfield Project will conduct research , do regulatory and legal...

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Is Online Fundraising a Bad Idea?

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09/29/2017

... But is this the right way to go? Each year, I conduct research on individual donor fundraising. Lately, I’m ... starting to wonder: Is online fundraising a bad idea? The research for my Individual Donor...

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Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

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10/02/2017

... priorities has long been ocean conservation and research . But we’ve also seen an apparent increasing ... in financial support for the project and the use of a research vessel Allen personally owns. . . Could...

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