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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

... are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children's Hospital suggests. ... born with higher birthweight appeared to be at risk from a young age,” researcher...

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... funded by the Leon Levy Foundation to digitize items from the BAM Hamm Archives. More than 70,000 individual items ... audio recordings and video are all included. Items date from the 1850s to the present and...

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CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market

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08/28/2017

... Northwell Health, has asked state permission to withdraw from the individual and small group market, the latest ... underwriting loss through the first six months of 2017, up from a $48 million underwriting...

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A Former Felon Leads The Way In Criminal Justice Reform

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08/31/2017

... Reform In September 1999, Deanna Hoskins was released from a community-based correctional facility after serving ... of a one-year prison sentence. She was 30 and suffering from substance abuse problems. Today...

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Justice Reform

Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

... Jersey Leaders President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, ... in the region and a top priority for many officials from the two states. It would...

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Community Development

Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... worldwide. In 2015 alone, nearly 18 million people died from CVDs which accounts for 31 percent of all global deaths. ... numbers, NCDs don’t receive nearly as much attention from global health funders as high...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg-supported Cities Work on Assembling the Open Government Puzzle

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09/27/2017

... churning piles of information, there are pieces missing from the open government puzzle. Since the National Oceanic ... those data sets and knowledge should have been available from the start. Although the...

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Is Online Fundraising a Bad Idea?

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09/29/2017

... the world is at my fingertips. I can order takeout from a local restaurant, express-deliver flowers to a friend ... their own website. Other organizations are transitioning from direct mail to online-only...

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The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

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10/06/2017

... of all refugees that came to the United States were from Africa. Three countries—Democratic Republic of the ... of all refugees resettled in the United States came from countries in Africa (primarily ...

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Immigration

Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the University of Notre Dame. "Higher Highs and Lower ... Christensen of the University of Oregon and Scott Graffin from the University of...

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse

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10/18/2017

... have scanned nearly 4,000 prints, paintings, and drawings from the collection—building a website to make them ... The site, hosted at Stanford, was made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation...

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New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

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11/08/2017

... Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors Ten years from now, Americans born in 1960 will be able to start ... made by a University of Michigan (U-M) team using data from long-term health studies and...

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New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

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11/08/2017

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ArtNet News Details Joan Mitchell Foundation 2017 Grant Recipients

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11/15/2017

... ethnicities, and geographic backgrounds. They range in age from 27 to 62 and come from 12 different states, including Hawaii and Alaska. Of the ... 80 percent identify as non-white—a substantial increase...

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MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People

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11/28/2017

... innovate financial services based on the latest research from the science of human behavior. Over the past two ... spectrum of consumer financial products and services— from retirement savings, to short-term...

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Economic Security

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Surdna Foundation Funds Exhibit Mapping 150 Years of Activism in New Orleans

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01/05/2018

... social justice demonstrations and movements in New Orleans from 1863 to today. The maps pinpoint the location of more ... exhibit also offers profiles of notable activism efforts from the past 150 years...

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Civic Engagement

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Mellon Foundation Grant to USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to Support Digital Collection for Dance Heritage

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06/08/2018

... Collection for Dance Heritage Thanks to a $560,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation under its Arts and ... Heritage Coalition. The collection spans dance genres from classical Indian forms like...

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Arcus Grantee, Dr. Kristina Olson, Receives Prestigious Honor

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10/23/2018

... the study currently being conducted among 300 young people from across the country. Though the study is yet to be complete, initial findings from Olson's research are already providing a wealth of...

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Gender Justice

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Report Names Traffic Injuries Leading Killer of Children and Young People

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12/14/2018

... traffic deaths worldwide. A person dies every 24 seconds from a traffic-related incident, according to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Annually, that adds ... to the earth's growing...

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Children, Youth and Families

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