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AARP, Commonwealth Fund Release State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Seniors

Release Date:

06/15/2017

... for Seniors With baby boomers beginning to turn 80 in 2026, states must accelerate the pace of improving ... to AARP’s new state scorecard released today. The report , Picking Up the Pace of Change: A State...

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Niarchos Foundation, Revson Foundation, & Heckscher Foundation Are Crowdsourcing Ideas to Help NYC Public Libraries

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07/05/2017

... isn’t exactly a hot area of giving. As we’ve noted in the past, most big donors overlook libraries. Although the ... around town. But as we've reported, some funders in New York City and elsewhere remain...

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Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published

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07/26/2017

... early education and related programs. – across the U.S., in New York, and other nations. The research was funded by ... Lackman served as Principal Investigator, while a Scholar in Residence at the Graduate...

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Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults

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09/15/2017

... rising fast among older Americans. Their study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, compared data from a national survey taken in 2001 and 2002 and again in 2012 and 2013, each time with about 40,...

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Aging

New Video From TCC Group: The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity

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10/13/2017

... environment requires foundations to be nimble in maximizing opportunities to advance their agendas. At the ... an assessment of 54 foundations that participated in taking a new tool, developed for funders by...

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New Research Supported By Simons Foundation Points to Cellular Roots of Autism

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12/05/2017

... a new genetic model of autism, using neurons created in the lab from patients’ own skin cells. Their experiments suggest that abnormalities in the electrical firing of neurons may lead to behavioral and...

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With Support from Gerstner and Heckscher Foundations, SUNY Announces Emergency Aid to Support Degree Completion Among Students

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12/19/2017

... threaten to derail them. "Across the nation, studies report as many as 65 percent of students surveyed who drop ... manage this grant program to provide aid to our students in the short-term, and assess...

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Education

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A New Map, Funded By The New York Community Trust Lets You Search Every NYC Landmark

Release Date:

12/19/2017

... wondered whether the protected building you’re standing in front sports Richardsonian Romanesque or Queen Anne ... get your answer on the spot. The LPC’s map first debuted in March 2016 with the city’s 1,400...

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The New York Community Trust

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Community Development

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01 Feb 2018

Supporting Local Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Foundations - Webinar

Thursday, February 1, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... with brief reflections on the recently-released report Supporting Local Organizations: Challenges and ... email register@philanthropynewyork.org with any questions. In collaboration with Supporting Local...

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A New Study Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Reveals that Antioxidant Therapy Prevents Vision Loss in Rare Birth Defect

Release Date:

02/07/2018

... Reveals that Antioxidant Therapy Prevents Vision Loss in Rare Birth Defect A new study led by vision researchers at ... to the current standard-of-care prevented vision loss in an animal model of a rare...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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NoVo Foundation Announces Three Winners of the Pathways to Freedom Challenge

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02/15/2018

... Chicago, and Minneapolis were selected to participate in a first-of-its-kind anti-trafficking challenge to develop ... from the challenge will support a senior fellow’s salary in city government for two years...

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Social Justice

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Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser

Release Date:

02/21/2018

... a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. As the team reports in a paper published online in December in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing ...

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Technology

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The Foundation for Child Development Introduces The NYC Early Childhood Research Network

Release Date:

02/28/2018

... Child Development (the Foundation) has released its latest report “New York City Early Childhood Research Network: A ... mission to focus on the early care and education workforce in the context of continuous...

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02 May 2018

New York City Schools: Is Integration Necessary?

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... segregation. The discussion will explore issues raised in recent articles, reports, editorials, and New York ... bag lunch sessions provide a forum for funders to engage in informal, interactive discussion on...

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Appointments & Transitions

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National Security Expert Sally Donnelly Joins Rockefeller Brothers Fund as Senior Fellow

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04/12/2018

... fellow. Ms. Donnelly will bring extensive experience in U.S. national security affairs to support the Fund’s work by monitoring and interpreting developments in the national security community, strengthening...

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Research Supported by The Helmsley Charitable Trust Grant Provides New Insight Into Neurological Disorders

Release Date:

04/17/2018

... autism, even depression—have lagged behind in new therapies. Because the brain is so complex, it can be ... to discover new drugs and even when a drug is promising in animal models, it often doesn’t work for...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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OSF May Exit Hungary as Orban Purges Civil Groups

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04/20/2018

... group that funds dozens of non-governmental organizations in Hungary, may move its staff out of Budapest amid a ... dramatically restrict the activities of civil society in Hungary,” the charity said ...

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Patrina Foundation Supports Adaptive Sports Foundation’s 2018 Warriors in Motion Program

Release Date:

06/15/2018

... Supports Adaptive Sports Foundation’s 2018 Warriors in Motion Program The Adaptive Sports Foundation (ASF) in Windham announces the businesses and foundations that will ... of companies and donors providing...

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Veterans

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Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Field Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments

Release Date:

06/18/2018

... Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments In the United States, as well as in most of the developed world, people reportedly spend about 90% of their time indoors. In homes,...

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