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21 Nov 2013

Education Funders Research Initiative - Building Better Schools

Thursday, November 21, 2013 -

7:45am to 11:00am

Ford Foundation

... re-center attention to how to move change throughout the system . Within the priority areas, which broad policies must ... — and with the anticipated impact — throughout the system ? Presenters Our panel will...

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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

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04/15/2014

Surdna Foundation launched $18 million Program Related Investment (PRI) revolving fund to support its mission of fostering just and sustainable communities in the United States.

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Surdna Foundation

Searching for the Next Breakthrough in Health Care

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05/05/2014

... planet, it is equally well documented that our health care system , on many levels, doesn’t measure up on a global ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

New York is building one of the nation’s largest computer databases of medical records

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06/01/2014

... largest computer databases of medical records, a system that when finished will allow patients and doctors ...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

... of Alaska, University of Arizona, Montana University System , and Purdue. The new national network, the Sloan ...

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Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

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07/17/2014

Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

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RPA Announces Ebola Survival Fund

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10/29/2014

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is partnering with a coalition of NGOs as part of a new grantmaking collaborative, the Ebola Survival Fund.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Research to Prevent Blindness Funds New Smartphone Application to Detect Vision Problems in Young Patients

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11/05/2014

... challenging to examine: newborns and children. The system can capture key structures at the back of the eye in a ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

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11/17/2014

... opposes America’s development of a missile-defense system and contributes funds to scores of anti-war groups ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... $800 billion in annual waste in the nation’s health-care system . The billionaire’s New York-based Peter G. ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

The Today Show Discusses Long-Term Care with United Hospital Fund's Carol Levine

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12/11/2014

... navigate the confusing long-term care and health care system , especially through transitions between health care ...

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

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01/16/2015

Program is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities initiative.

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... both components of the CDC Global Tobacco Surveillance System . Results from the survey, which will be conducted in ...

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City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

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06/29/2015

... computer science students. It’s time our education system prioritizes the skills these jobs demand in a scalable ...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Mixed Views of PCPs Towards New Payment Models

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08/14/2015

... that aims to promote a high performing healthcare system that achieves better access, improved quality, and ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Elmezzi Foundation Supports Population Health Management Pilot Program at Mount Sinai Queens

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08/21/2015

... to Mount Sinai Queens, part of the Mount Sinai Health System , to support a population health management pilot ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

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08/28/2015

... have discovered critical details of how a cell's response system tells the difference between these two perpetual .....

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Surdna Foundation Invites LOIs for Environmental Infrastructure Programs

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09/10/2015

Surdna seeks nonprofits that improve urban infrastructure systems that maximize positive impact while minimizing negative consequences.

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

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10/27/2015

Faced with physician shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world are increasingly reassigning certain procedures normally performed by physicians to nurses with advanced training.

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Russia Bans Soros-Backed Foundations as Security 'Threat'

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12/02/2015

... "a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and the security of the .....

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