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Social Innovation Fund Awards $11.3 Million Grant to LISC to Expand Education, Career Services for Low-Income Individuals

Release Date:

08/04/2015

... Career Services for Low-Income Individuals As part of a vigorous new effort to help jobless Americans ... living in poverty who are struggling to find employment is a lack of education and skills-and that...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report on Charter Schools and District Integration

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09/16/2015

... outlines how charter schools can and should be part of the solution to addressing this issue of inter-district segregation. The report’ s author, The Century Foundation education fellow Halley ...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Expands SEED Program, Adding 3 Locales in 2016

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12/11/2015

... Fe in 2016. This follows the success of the Foundation' s pilot support to 36 cultural projects across the United States. SEED is a combination of risk capital and value added support to ... and enriching...

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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 ... disorders, Platt said. "What we're trying to do is both identify and...

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What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation's Pursuit of Conquering Inequality

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01/05/2016

What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation' s Pursuit of Conquering Inequality The urge to change the world is normally thwarted by a near-insurmountable barricade of ... inertia of all sorts, psychological...

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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...

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How Do I Master That Skill? LinkedIn, Markle Want To Help

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03/18/2016

... That Skill? LinkedIn, Markle Want To Help Living online is great fun. But pizza, the scent of an ocean breeze — and ... out in Phoenix and Denver. In a blog post, LinkedIn’ s vice president for product...

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UHF: A New Arena For Reducing Antibiotic Misuse: Outpatient Care

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03/25/2016

... addressing antibiotic misuse and overuse in those settings is critical. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... consumers, and in March 2015 the Obama administration’ s National Action Plan...

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Gap CEO: Giving Young People Their First Jobs is A Double Bottom Line Investment For Companies

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03/28/2016

Gap CEO: Giving Young People Their First Jobs is A Double Bottom Line Investment For Companies We all ... houses and as a grocery store clerk. One of John’ s first jobs was in a summer camp in a high-needs...

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Marsh & McLennan, Tow Foundation Honored Alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda

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03/30/2016

... and 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award recipient, as part of its Educating for Justice Gala on Monday, May 23. In ... & McLennan and member of the John Jay College Foundation' s Board of Trustees, will...

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Warhol Foundation Brings "I Like the Sound of That" Exhibition to Artspace

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04/22/2016

... Exhibition to Artspace Whether intentional or not, sound is a constant component of a visual artist' s studio practice. Recorded music, news, talk radio, books on ... random; in either case, sound has an...

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NY Community Trust Teams Up with Muslim-American Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes

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08/09/2016

... including New York. More than 80 percent of the media’ s coverage of Muslims is negative, according to reports from the Institute for ... beyond. “Thanks to money to left to us by New Yorker’ s...

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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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With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

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04/25/2017

... research suggests, and acquiring knowledge about one' s gender is considered a critical part of early childhood development. In one of the first .....

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Respected Anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford Steps Into New Role as President of Wenner-Gren Foundation

Release Date:

08/09/2017

... The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research' s next president respected anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford ... fieldwork focused on questions of culture and power. She is well known for her...

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Inside Game: A Foundation Supports LGBTQ Leaders in the Halls of Power

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... Leaders in the Halls of Power While it was the nation’ s highest court that granted marriage equality to LGBTQ ... places away from the capital. In fact, well before Trump' s election threw up obstacles...

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... refugees; approximately 1 in 4 persons of the country’ s 4.4 million is now a refugee. The result is a major humanitarian ... a distant hope. Many refugees have now spent the better ...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Teams Up With Lin-Manuel Miranda to Aid Puerto Rico

Release Date:

10/18/2017

... people without power and all but destroyed the island’ s energy grid. (As of press time, Maria had claimed at least 48 lives, and more than 80 percent of the power grid is still not functioning.) For the three...

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Arcus Funds LGBTQ Capacity Building Grants In An Under-Resourced Region

Release Date:

11/02/2017

... LGBTQ giving. But in a socially conservative region that’ s home to nearly a third of “out” adults, there’ s a ... need for capacity building. The Out in the South Fund is helping to fill...

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Schott Foundation CEO John H. Jackson Named by EBONY Magazine One Of 100 Inspiring Leaders

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11/13/2017

... to be a 2017 honoree. I am especially excited to be part of a cast of 100 outstanding individuals where the ... from every sector are public school graduates. This is further evidence that our public school...

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