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Simons Foundation Among Backers of $28 Million Autism Treatment Study

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07/29/2015

... treated. The Yale team will collect data in Connecticut from preschoolers and school-aged children affected by autism ... The data then will be evaluated along with data taken from four other locations: Duke...

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Carnegie and American Library Association Seek Nominees for I Love My Librarian Award

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07/31/2015

... by the American Library Association, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and the New York Times ... Nominees must be a librarian with a master's degree from an ALA-accredited program in...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Metropolitan Museum's Launch of Kid-Targeted Web Initiative

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09/11/2015

... galleries-was created in collaboration with specialists from across the Museum including educators, curators, ... 125 featured objects, fun facts, and project ideas drawn from across the Met's collection...

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What's Driving Variation in New York's Hospital Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation)

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12/17/2015

... hospitals and insurers tend to hide this information from consumers (and researchers) because it is considered ... these researchers had access to a large data set of claims from private insurers across the...

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New York Health Foundation

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Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

... to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking new report from Foresight Alliance, a Washington DC-based foresight consultancy. Supported by a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation, the report encapsulates a .....

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... Fight to Davos The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago ... waste around the world. The wide-ranging plan will stretch from thrown-out crops to excess food at...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust

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04/13/2016

... through on those goals to achieve results, a new report from the National Committee for Responsive ... Impact? Trust grantee achievements include a commitment from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to remove minors...

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The New York Community Trust

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NY Community Trust Announces Three Staff Promotions to Program Director

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07/28/2016

... and staffing the NYC Cultural Agenda Fund. Michele comes from Dance/NYC where she served as equity and inclusion ... Global Fund for Women. Michele has a bachelor’s degree from Brown in development studies and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

... being announced today in an attempt to have more students from modest backgrounds graduate from prestigious campuses seen as opening doors to top ... Initiative, aims to add 50,000 highly qualified students...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Welcomes Lisa Cowan as Vice President of Programs

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01/12/2017

... was the Principal Consultant at Hummingbird Consulting from 2013 - 2016. Lisa sits on the boards of Brooklyn ... served as the Board President of the Red Hook Initiative from 2005 - 2013. Lisa is a third-...

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Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Featured in Study on Limited Life Foundations

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03/22/2017

... is the key driver for the decision to spend down, a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds. Based ... foundations, the report, A Date Certain: Lessons From Limited Life Foundations (50 pages,...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... and revolutionary. The first group of women graduated from United States Army infantry training last week, but ... to distinguish the mixed-gender squads in the steamy woods from those of earlier generations...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

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06/07/2017

... housing initiatives. Community development funding from a bank isn’t the flashiest of grants. But this funding ... housing, or how prosperous a neighborhood will be a decade from now. To be sure, the big banks...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

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06/14/2017

... simple assumption. Organizations involve more people, and from a strategic standpoint, seem to offer more influence and ... to disseminate and publicize the results that derive from their project grants. But...

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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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Arts

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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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