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Funded by Russell Sage, Study Finds Childhood Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year

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11/02/2016

... Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year Increases in overweight and obesity rates among young children occur ... school year, according to new research from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The...

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New Study Examines How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities

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11/04/2016

... How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities As interest in measuring and understanding the impact of arts investments in community development...

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Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust

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11/22/2016

... Studies has received a $25 million grant — a renewal of the largest research gift in the Institute’s 56-year history — that will be used to ... $42 million Helmsley gift made to the Salk Institute in...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Uninsured Rates Have Dropped in All States

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12/21/2016

Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Uninsured Rates Have Dropped in All States Between 2013 and 2015, uninsured rates for adults ages 19 to 64 ... at least 3 percentage points in 48 states and the...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not-for-Profit

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12/21/2016

... The Modern Language Assocation (MLA) Commons launched in early 2013 as a platform for communication among MLA members, ... to participate in discussion groups, and to create a range ...

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The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/11/2017

... an underperforming U.S. environmental movement. Starting in 2013 , Overbrook embarked on an effort to address some of the issues that “hobble the progress of the ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear

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09/07/2017

... States as minors — some commentators tried to find a ray of hope in the dismal forecast. Trump, they noted, would give ... House Republicans sabotaged a chance to help Dreamers in ...

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Immigration

New Study Shows Organic Farming Traps Carbon in Soil to Combat Climate Change

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09/12/2017

New Study Shows Organic Farming Traps Carbon in Soil to Combat Climate Change When it comes to mitigating the worst impacts of climate change, keeping excess carbon out of the ... carbon...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Opinion: New York’s Republicans Must Resist The Obamacare Repeal And Replace Effort

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09/27/2017

... Care Act has benefited New York enormously: between 2013 and 2016, 1 million New Yorkers gained coverage, bringing our uninsured rate to an all-time low of just six percent. Through this law, millions ...

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20 Percent of Serious Food Safety Violations Go Ignored, New Report Finds

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10/03/2017

20 Percent of Serious Food Safety Violations Go Ignored, New Report ... on one of every five serious food-safety risks identified in manufacturing facilities, according to a report released .....

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Sloan Scholar Says Funding will Open Doors in Materials Science Field

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11/09/2017

Sloan Scholar Says Funding will Open Doors in Materials Science Field Roger Walker, doctoral candidate ... doctorates in mathematics, science and engineering. In 2013 , Penn...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation and the Power of Participatory Grantmaking

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12/12/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation and the Power of Participatory Grantmaking While the BCF's board retains ... the Brooklyn Community Foundation as president and CEO in 2013 , Cecilia Clarke...

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It Didn’t Hit $1 Billion, but Rockefeller Sale Still Set High

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05/14/2018

... considerably shy at nearly $833 million. But the treasures of David and Peggy Rockefeller still set a high for the most ... at auction, surpassing the $443 million total (revised in 2013 ) for...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz to Receive Council on Foundations Distinguished Service Award

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11/08/2018

... announced that it will honor Stephen Heintz, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, with its 2018 Distinguished Service Award. First presented in 1984, the Distinguished Service Award is known as .....

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Scanning the Landscape 2.0: Finding Out What's Going on in Your Field

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04/2012

GrantCraft talked with funders working in the U.S., Europe and internationally about when, why and ... the landscape for new ideas and new directions. An update of their 2004 publication, with 15 new interviews, Scan 2.0 is filled with examples of scans ...

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In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity

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08/28/2013

... It leans heavily, as other charities do, on the generosity of businesses, including Target, Bank of America, Delta Air Lines and the New York Yankees. Toyota ... was also a donor. But then Toyota had a...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Corporate Funders

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Investment Policy

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04/2011

Innovative strategies and new investment opportunities can be used to align investment practices with mission objectives to sustain the public good. Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation offers a look at their investment policy which can be used as a template for others.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $4.5 Million for Conservation Scholars Program

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09/20/2013

The University of Washington, Northern Arizona University and the University ... provide undergraduates with opportunities to participate in mentored research activities in conservation biology...

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The Mismeasure of Poverty

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09/17/2013

... President Sheldon Danziger talks about the flaws in the ways that the U.S. measures poverty in an op-ed for ... in America held stable between 2011 and 2012, at about 15...

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