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Rausch and Long Island Community Foundations Partner to Expand Tourism in Riverhead

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07/15/2016

... on expanding tourism — which includes drawing visitors from New York City and promoting Riverhead as a place people ... services. The organizations, along with representatives from local stakeholders such as...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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The Rauch Foundation

Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population

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08/04/2016

... with the project’s director and shifting its emphasis from the ballot box to the courtroom, reports BuzzFeed News. ... it was launched in November 2014 with a $50 million gift from the Open Society Foundations...

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Justice Reform

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Century Foundation Expert Says Tuition-Free College Wouldn’t Admit More Low-Income Students

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08/18/2016

... young people to pursue higher education by signaling them from a young age that they can afford it, notes Richard ... the top public schools don’t admit more applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds: their...

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Russell Sage Foundation Papers Help Explain the Growing Wage Gap

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08/22/2016

... womens' wages in previous years, that's tiny. A new essay from researchers Martha J. Bailey and Thomas A. DiPrete, ... which is part of a newly released collection of papers from the Russell Sage...

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Economic Security

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to University of Michigan to Endow Postdoctoral Humanities Positions

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09/12/2016

... The University of Michigan has received a $1 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to endow four ... secure these positions. In 2007, a $1.97 million gift from the Mellon Foundation funded these...

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William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans

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09/19/2016

... of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans Students from disadvantaged neighborhoods are often drawn to ... drop out, however. A new study of 150 black youths from some of Baltimore’s lowest-income...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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City Council to Examine Young Men's Initiative Funded by Bloomberg and Open Society Foundations

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09/21/2016

... by a combination of one-time $30 million contributions from Bloomberg Philanthropies and The Open Society Foundation and ongoing support from New York City tax dollars (up to $67.5 million over ...

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Health

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Markle Foundation Study Finds Women in Sweet Spot of U.S. Economy

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10/07/2016

... require more social and analytical skills, a new study from the Pew Research Center finds. Those jobs are ... pay went up 32 percent while men's pay went down 3 percent from 1980 to 2015, according to the...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Women in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Economic Development Program Secure Marriott Deal

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10/13/2016

... are providing the Marriott with locally grown coffee from their own coffee cooperatives, serving their own brand ... as staff at the hotel providing guest services. Crafts from Bloomberg Philanthropies...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500K to Support Solar Energy in Developing Countries

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10/20/2016

... developing world, was awarded a second $500,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, totaling $1 ... million in grant funding in the past year. Funds from the new grant will support GivePower...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Environment and Climate Change

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Atlantic Philanthropies Steps Into Political Arena With $50 Million Fund

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10/21/2016

... voters for Hillary Clinton. The fund’s money comes from the Atlantic Philanthropies, which has given away more ... have long backed left-leaning policy initiatives, from opposing the death penalty to...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Civic Engagement

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Funded by Russell Sage, Study Finds Childhood Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year

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11/02/2016

... not during the school year, according to new research from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of ... in a nationally representative sample of 18,170 children from the start of kindergarten in...

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Health

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Simons Foundation Supports Research That Sheds New Light on RNA’s Journey Out of a Cell’s Nucleus

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11/10/2016

... the cell to produce essential proteins, messages derived from DNA must somehow escape the nucleus in the form of RNA ... genetic information in the form of RNA transcribed from DNA, must pass. The results were...

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Science

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Finding Common Ground on International Tax Reform

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11/17/2016

... is broken. As a result, over $2.5 trillion in profits from U.S. companies are sitting overseas untaxed and ... the 21st century global economy, according to a new report from TCF's Bernard L. Schwartz...

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Economic Security

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating Waste to Feed The Hungry

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12/05/2016

... of dollars and enlisted partners around the globe— from large corporations to smallholder farmers, from celebrity chefs to supermarkets—to halve food waste ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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UJA-Federation of New York Screens Holocaust Film Premiere in Long Island

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01/03/2017

... of Debbie Goodstein’s Holocaust sequel film, "Echoes from the Attic." Goodstein’s first film, Voices from the Attic, which explored her family’s history during .....

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Arts

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Strengthening Protection of Patient Medical Data

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01/11/2017

... in U.S. health privacy laws since 1996. A new report from The Century Foundation reveals companies have built a ... secondary market in anonymized patient details from billing, insurance claims, prescriptions...

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Health

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ESSA Explained: Inside the New Federal K-12 Law

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01/13/2017

... big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low-performing schools. ... leeway to states in calling the shots. That's a big change from the No Child Left Behind...

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Doris Duke Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative

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01/24/2017

... How do you protect a dwindling species when it’s fled from its changing habitat? Large green groups and funders are ... that conservation efforts have often drawn supporters from across the ideological...

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