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Jonas Scholar Finds First Zika Case in the U.S.

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06/02/2016

... he might have a disease called “Zika Fever” in 2013 , she was dubious. In her 15 years as a certified nurse ... Zika, a 2008 case where two American scientists contracted it in Senegal. Summers’ patient had a...

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

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06/10/2016

Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City When he was in his ... saw the Dance Theater of Harlem perform in Austin, Texas. " It was a transformational experience,...

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Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth

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09/23/2016

... Excelencia in Education analysis of federal data. In 2013 , Latinos made up 17 percent of all students in higher ...

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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

... of kindergarten in 2010 through the end of second grade in 2013 . The results, published in the journal Obesity, provide ...

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

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11/04/2016

... to grow, a new study released today, Setting the Stage for Community Change: Reflecting on Creative Placemaking Outcomes, offers insights for the field of "creative placemaking" and is a working .....

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Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust

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11/22/2016

... Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received a $25 million grant — a ... $42 million Helmsley gift made to the Salk Institute in 2013 . That gift established the...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Uninsured Rates Have Dropped in All States

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12/21/2016

... Finds Uninsured Rates Have Dropped in All States Between 2013 and 2015, uninsured rates for adults ages 19 to 64 declined in all states and by at ... points in 48 states and the District of Columbia. ...

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

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12/21/2016

... Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not- for -Profit The Modern Language Assocation (MLA) Commons launched in early 2013 as a platform for communication among MLA members, enabling...

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The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/11/2017

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

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The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear

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09/07/2017

... President Trump had decided to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the 2012 policy that ... House Republicans sabotaged a chance to help Dreamers in 2013 , when John Boehner, the House...

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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, ... coverage brings economic stability and alleviates stress for low- and moderate-income families...

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

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10/03/2017

... to correct violations voluntarily. In one incident in 2013 , FDA inspectors found listeria in a facility where rain ... problems, samples from the factory still tested positive for listeria two years later...

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Sloan Scholar Says Funding will Open Doors in Materials Science Field

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11/09/2017

... by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, provides funding for underrepresented students to pursue doctorates in mathematics, science and engineering. In 2013 , Penn State was one of three flagship universities...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation and the Power of Participatory Grantmaking

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12/12/2017

... more power over philanthropic spending to the people that it is supposed to help. For example, soon after joining the Brooklyn Community Foundation as president and CEO in 2013 , Cecilia...

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

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05/14/2018

It Didn’t Hit $1 Billion, but Rockefeller Sale Still Set ... treasures of David and Peggy Rockefeller still set a high for the most valuable private collection sold at auction, surpassing the $443 million total (...

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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

... Award The Council on Foundations today announced that it will honor Stephen Heintz, President of the Rockefeller ... Vartan Gregorian of the Carnegie Corporation of New York ( 2013 )... Rockefeller Brothers...

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Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program

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09/05/2018

... havoc from which the island is still recovering. But the storm had a silver lining, too: stirring in Puerto Ricans an ... said Karina Claudio Betancourt, program officer for the Puerto Rico Project at the Open...

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How the David Rockefeller Fund has Responded to the Crises of 2020

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09/24/2020

... The year 2020 has challenged the David Rockefeller Fund as it has most of our peer foundations. It began with ebullient ... Crisis COVID-19 was quickly becoming a death sentence for...

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