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Teagle Foundation President Offers Advice to Campus Officials Meeting With Foundations

Release Date:

12/14/2016

... to Campus Officials Meeting With Foundations During my years as a provost and then as a college president, I often ... sometimes even foundation presidents. For the past three years , I have been a foundation...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Research And Policy Guidance Around Planning For Autonomous Vehicles

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03/16/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute launched an initiative last year aimed at formulating a framework and best practices for governments to follow. The program, which includes 10 international cities, expects to release its first...

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Bloomberg Commits $375 Million to Education Initiatives

Release Date:

06/01/2018

... of education initiatives nationwide over the next five years , increasing his commitment to an area that has been a core part of his Bloomberg Philanthropies for years . Mr. Bloomberg said the broad goal is to...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty

Release Date:

05/07/2018

The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will include roughly a dozen two-year visiting faculty fellowships, according to Gennifer Weisenfeld, dean of the humanities at Duke.

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Mellon Foundation

18 Sep 2013

NYC Paves the Way: Developing Tomorrow’s Workforce for the Tech Sector

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... with a particular focus on its interaction with education, youth and the future workforce. Explore Implications for ... Fund , in collaboration with Media Impact Funders , NYC Youth Funders , NYC Workforce...

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William T. Grant Foundation Opens Applications for Two Research Grants Programs: Improving the Use of Research Evidence and Reducing Inequality

Release Date:

11/21/2019

... use in policy and practice will necessarily improve youth outcomes. Serious scientific inquiry is needed. We need ... policy implementation, service delivery, and, ultimately, youth outcomes. In short, we need...

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Anti-Poverty Research Study Launched in NY

Release Date:

05/18/2014

... increased child care subsidies and supplements for low -wage workers. After receiving the results, the three ...

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UJA-Federation of New York

Private-Public Partnership Commits $350 Million For Affordable NYC Housing

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07/30/2014

... of an estimated 7,500 units of affordable housing, most in low -rise buildings across the five boroughs. NYC Mayor ...

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Morgan Stanley

All Health Care is Local: The Power of Community to Drive Improvement

Release Date:

09/11/2014

... socioeconomic challenges associated with poor health— low education levels, homelessness, and mental ...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience

Release Date:

01/28/2015

... by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012. “There were the low -lying neighbourhoods of Staten Island exposed to sea ...

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New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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03/07/2016

... PRAME mRNA were more likely to metastasize than those with low levels of PRAME mRNA, indicating that patients with this ...

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NYS Health Launches Challenge Calling for NY Residents to Submit Ideas to Create Healthier Communities

Release Date:

06/10/2016

... because they showed poor health outcomes and received low health rankings in the state. The areas are also ones ...

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NCN Requests Foundations Sign on to Oppose Repeal of the Johnson Amendment

Release Date:

03/28/2017

... week’s Foundations on the Hill days and discovered very low levels of awareness of this issue. This is a ...

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Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data

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09/12/2017

... 2015. “In urban areas, where students are overwhelmingly low -achieving, poor and nonwhite, charter schools tend to do ...

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Senators Revise Health Bill in Last-Ditch Effort to Win Votes

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... would provide extra money for an unnamed “high-spending low -density state,” a last-minute change seemingly aimed at ...

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Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... at a variety of factors and assigns a defendant a label: Low -, medium- or high-risk. Bail will be assigned from there, ...

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

Release Date:

10/10/2017

Investing in product safety, employee diversity and carbon footprint reduction are all examples of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that can result in high praise for a chief executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the...