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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Director Examines Link Between Art and Economic Development

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08/18/2015

... climate is today more imperiled than it ever has been in the modern era, a situation that has affected nearly every aspect of life in the country. This has included, of course, cultural ... closures as...

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Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives

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08/19/2015

... Zaatari is growing every year around the globe. A recent report from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees finds ... is roughly 13 times the population of Costa Rica alone. In Latin America, the number of...

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Ford and Atlantic Back Education Policy Think Tank

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09/04/2015

... Berkeley. The Learning Policy Institute will be based in Palo Alto, Calif. but will also have a Washington office. ... And it's coming on the scene at a time of major transition in areas like...

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Foundation for Child Development-Backed Research Examines the Effects of Discrimination on the Children of Immigrants

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09/10/2015

... and social consequences for immigrants’ children.   In three papers coming out over the next two weeks, the ... whether they are themselves immigrants or were born in the United States to immigrant parents...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... (DARPA) fund much of the U.S. government’s research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk research. The report , U.S. Trends in Synthetic...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region

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09/25/2015

... If you sometimes feel like you have a little foreman in your head who keeps you on track while you work ... through a sequence of tasks, you aren’t far off. In new research, Brown University scientists...

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The Gender Divide in Ballet Leadership and Choreography

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09/29/2015

The Gender Divide in Ballet Leadership and Choreography In 1963, the Ford Foundation used the power of its grants to ... recent article on NPR, many of the current female leaders in the arts, and...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Backs Commission on the Future of Higher Education

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11/04/2015

... and opportunities higher education will confront in the next 20 to 25 years. The commission faces a double challenge: producing a report that not only doesn’t die on a shelf but also distinguishes itself...

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Century Foundation Releases Proposals to Strengthen ACA

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12/15/2015

Century Foundation Releases Proposals to Strengthen ACA In just under six years, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has succeeded in enrolling millions of people in health insurance ... system...

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Pinkerton, Kaplan and NY Community Trust Staff to Be Honored by City & State

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02/05/2016

The media company, City & State Reports, and New York Law School announced this year's Corporate, Foundation and Family Philanthropy honorees.

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Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers

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02/16/2016

... the inmates, Cuomo told reporters after a church service in Harlem. “We had a federal investigation for civil rights ...

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When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)

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02/29/2016

... the latest social-media fitness app. It's a grant proposed in President Obama's new budget, reviving an idea that hasn't gotten much policy attention in decades: diversity in...

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Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%

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03/04/2016

... 10 years than they would have prior to their involvement in the group. UIA recently received $3.85 million in new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford ... and USA Funds to support its...

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Hartford Foundation Study Gets Attention on ‘National Healthcare Decisions Day’

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04/18/2016

... of discussion arrives on the heels of a new national study in which only 29 percent of physicians surveyed reported ...

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NYS Health Foundation President Calls For Proper Veteran Care

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05/09/2016

... care facilities, and for calculating those wait times in a way that masks the true extent of the problem. Veterans ... months to get routine care, according to another damning report by the Government...

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New York Health Foundation

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Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

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09/28/2016

... RNA is actually functional? And does it play a role in disease? A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor ... RNAs to find those that were expressed at high levels in two types of aggressive breast cancer. As...

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