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New York State Health Foundation Breaks Down Diabetes Prevention

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03/26/2015

... Prevention The findings from a recent synthesis of the literature about the effectiveness of prevention initiatives focused on reducing the risk of ... studies of...

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The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows

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04/15/2015

... graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants, announced their 2015 recipients. The thirty ... said Daisy M. Soros, who co-founded the Fellowship program in 1997 with her late husband,...

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Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced The ... 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research. Established in 2013 as part ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation, OSF and New York Foundation Accept National Impact Awards

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05/20/2015

... United States. As the country's only independent watchdog of foundations, NCRP inaugurated the awards in 2013 to honor foundations that embody the ideals of .....

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NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal

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07/06/2015

... the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience was launched in 2012 and slated to run four years. Aimed at reducing ... recidivism among 16- to 18-year-olds who entered Rikers in 2013 by 10...

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Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds

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04/28/2016

... Foundation program that funded the advanced education of social justice leaders from marginalized groups led to significant positive change in communities and organizations around the world, a report .....

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City

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06/10/2016

... Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City When he was in his freshman year of college almost four decades ago, Darren Walker saw the ... to them growing...

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NYS Health Foundation President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic

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07/18/2016

... President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic In July 1981—35 years ago this month—The New York ... 41 Homosexuals.” The story also reported, “The cause of the outbreak is unknown, and there is...

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Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth

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09/23/2016

... Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth As more Latinos enroll in college, the number of Latinos going into the professoriate is not keeping pace, ... Excelencia in Education analysis of...

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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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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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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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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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