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

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

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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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Atlantic Philanthropies Shares Its Top Ten Lessons Learned in Hindsight

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06/19/2018

Atlantic Philanthropies Shares Its Top Ten Lessons Learned in Hindsight Christopher Oechsli, President and CEO writes , ... live long enough to make them all yourself.” It’s in that spirit — and out of a desire to...

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Markle Foundation Initiative, Skillful, Is Going Coast-to-Coast

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07/03/2018

... without college degrees and now more states are joining in this effort to transform hiring practices and workforce development. The initiative, which was launched in 2016 by the Markle Foundation , has...

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ASPCA Steps in to Rescue Piglets, Llamas, Cats, Dogs From Mendocino Complex Fire

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08/09/2018

ASPCA Steps in to Rescue Piglets, Llamas, Cats, Dogs From Mendocino ... have been rescued from a massive duo of wildfires burning in Mendocino and Lake counties. The American Society for the ... and water at the...

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

... Spaghetti Mystery If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a single ... out another stick and try again. Can you break the noodle in two? If not, you’re in...

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Simons and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Fund Study That Reveals How the Brain Overcomes Its Own Limitations

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10/24/2018

... Imagine trying to write your name so that it can be read in a mirror. Your brain has all of the visual information you ... that it’s not familiar with: using what it sees in the mirror to accurately guide your...

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$4 Million From Ford, Mellon, and Alice Walton Fund Goes to Promote Diversity on Museum Boards

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01/15/2019

... will receive $4 million to bolster board diversity in a push to make museums more accessible and inclusive. The ... L. Walton foundations joined forces to award the grant. In the more than 20 years that...

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United Hospital Fund Supports Evaluation That Shows Small Primary Care Practices Can Help Patients Access Mental Health Care

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04/04/2019

... Mental Health Care NEW YORK, NEW YORK April 4, 2019—One in five New Yorkers suffer from mental health disorders, but ... these people do not have access to treatment, especially in disadvantaged communities. A...

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A Decade of Impact: Bloomberg LP Improves Energy Efficiency by 45%

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04/11/2019

... according to the company’s 10 th annual Impact Report released today. Bloomberg is on target to reach 35% renewable energy use in 2020, continuing on its path of 100% renewable energy by 2025. “We are...

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Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Shows Glimpse of How Moisture and Humidity Affect Mold Growth

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06/10/2019

... recently published an article with several co-authors in Nature Communications titled "Microbial and Metabolic ... or just high-humidity conditions, we saw a difference in the types of microbes that...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation Announces Staff Promotions and Hiring of Nancy Wexler as Program Officer

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06/12/2019

... and Senior Program Officer; and Vice President, Program. In addition to approving the promotions, the Foundation ... Sanwa Bank and Spectrum Capital. She earned a BS degree in Accounting, cum laude, from the...

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Initial Funding From Ford Foundation, New York Community Trust Supports New Council on Criminal Justice

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07/23/2019

... task forces that study and recommend model policies rooted in a data-driven, nonpartisan approach, with the goal of ... policy advocacy organization will give it a unique voice in the world of criminal justice...

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Lukemia Drug Shows Promise for Treating a Childhood Brain Cancer, Research Supported by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award

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09/20/2019

... to be more effective at stopping a type of medulloblastoma in mouse models than existing treatments for the deadly ... Sciences at University of California San Diego. In the study, published September 20, 2019...

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New Survey from Commonwealth Fund: Just Over a Quarter of U.S. Adults Favor ‘Medicare for All,’ but Many Need More Information

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09/26/2019

... a Commonwealth Fund survey out today. The Health Insurance in America Survey, fielded between March 19 and June 9, 2019, is the newest in the Fund’s ongoing series reporting on working-age ... private...

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12 Feb 2020

Prose for Program Officers: A Workshop in Writing for Philanthropic Audiences

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... or do you find yourself overusing metaphors and mired in philanthropic jargon? When was the last time you wrote the ... Improve your communications approach and written structure in this special workshop for...

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2020 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Survey

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05/19/2020

... be open until May 31 st . COF expects to release the data in late September, at which point we will use the online benchmarking tool to generate a customized report for our members on compensation, benefits...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Errol Louis as Board Chair

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04/04/2022

... state Attorney General, Congress and U.S. Senate. In 2016 he was a questioner in the final CNN presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. In 2019 he launched a popular...

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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Supports the Building of Three New Hospitals in Greece

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08/11/2022

... Foundation Supports the Building of Three New Hospitals in Greece ATHENS – The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) ... Initiative will fund three new state-of-the-art hospitals in the cities of Komotini,...

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