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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Report Names Traffic Injuries Leading Killer of Children and Young People

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12/14/2018

... traffic deaths worldwide. A person dies every 24 seconds from a traffic-related incident, according to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Annually, that adds ... to the earth's growing...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Visual Culture Program on Caltech Campus

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12/14/2018

... Funds New Visual Culture Program on Caltech Campus Grant from the Mellon Foundation supports new opportunities for ... program is about to make Caltech a lot more colorful. From tours of neon art around Los...

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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Announces New Program Officer for Democracy, Hannah Furstenberg-Beckman

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08/31/2022

... democratic institutions. Hannah comes to the Trust from a consulting practice working with private foundation ... in the criminal legal system. Hannah holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MPA ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants More than $26.4M to Fund Nearly 200 Ultrasound Imaging Devices Across Minnesota and Train Sonography Workforce

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03/21/2023

... or a smaller rural or underserved community. “ Our hospitals and health centers need to stay current with ... “Having the latest ultrasound technology available in our communities means we can provide...

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New Report Funded by Foundation for Child Development Focuses On Restructuring the Financing of Early Care and Education

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02/22/2018

... to strengthen the ECE workforce, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and ... amounting to at least an estimated $140 billion annually from the public and private (...

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The New York Community Trust Awards Grants to 66 Nonprofits

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10/20/2022

... of life for all New Yorkers across a range of areas— from preventing homelessness to helping young women become ... now, such as helping the busloads of immigrants arriving from Texas,” said Shawn Morehead,...

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Philanthropy Is the Go-To Partner for Risk

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04/18/2013

... is the hardest, and the risk of failure is greatest -- from spraying down an entire island to eliminate mosquitoes ... and artifacts across Europe to prevent Allied forces from bombing them during World War II...

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Applications Accepted for the William T. Grant Scholars Program

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03/13/2014

... Program, which supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines who are seeking to further develop ... Program supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines, who have...

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Ending Child Marriage in a Generation: What Research is Needed?

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05/13/2014

... the Child. The precise reasons for child marriage differ from one society to the next, but all too often the ... power and independence are the same. Produced with support from the foundation’s Youth Sexuality...

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Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions

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06/03/2014

... has announced grants totaling nearly $1.3 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a program ... COSI will work to increase student access to works of art from the Art Institute's...

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

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07/24/2014

... Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals Support from the Wallace Foundation is helping NYC partner with ... the foundation's grant: a significant number of graduates from the city's revamped...

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Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Increase Graduation Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment

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10/17/2014

... Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment Findings from a new long-term study of small high schools in New York ... classroom lessons. Another key: outside funding, including from the Bill & Melinda Gates...

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Ford Foundation Heads Group of Philanthropic Leaders to Save Detroit

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11/10/2014

... groups, some with ties to the city, to help rescue Detroit from bankruptcy by donating hundreds of millions of dollars to spare retirees from deeper pension cuts and protect the city’s famed art ...

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Carnegie VP of Education Profiled in Huffington Post

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02/26/2015

... that struck me was how critically important people were, from teachers to school leaders, in terms of having an impact ... of the time that I've worked in education. I had also come from a highly...

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National Journal Notes Ford, Open Society Role in Net Neutrality Victory

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03/13/2015

... they represent in exchange for financial support from wealthy outside donors. The divide stems from a disagreement over whether new net-neutrality rules ...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... CDC Foundation has announced a two-year, $14 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to enable the U.S. Centers for ... of the CDC Global Tobacco Surveillance System. Results from the survey, which will be...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Discusses the Difficulties of Evaluation

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03/17/2015

... the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) has learned from experience how difficult it can be to build an evidence base and extract the maximum benefit from evaluation. All of EMCF’s 19 current grantees are...

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NYCT-Funded Initiative Has Taken on 424 Cases to Get Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids

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03/24/2015

... unaccompanied, undocumented minor has kept 13 children from being deported as of February, new data provided to ... by the New York City Council following the flood of minors from Central America who made...

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Pershing Square Foundation Backs Initiative to Provide Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants

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05/28/2015

... arrivals) status. Commitments of $15 million each from former Washington Post publisher Donald E. Graham and ... TheDream.us national partner colleges. The latest pledges from Graham and Ackman are in addition...

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