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Alfred P. Sloan and Simons Tapped to Offset Federal Budget Cuts in Science Funding

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03/17/2015

... progress is largely ignored by wealthy donors as it suffers from federal budget cutbacks. A coalition of ... behind Kastner and the initiative, which launched in 2013 , boast a history of commitment to basic...

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Nadia Alia Appointed Manager, Grants and Communications at The Tow Foundation

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04/20/2015

... at The Tow Foundation. She joined The Foundation in 2013 as grants manager. She will continue this work and ... and reporting process. She is the system administrator for the Foundation’s online grantmaking...

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Verizon Foundation-Funded Research Cited as Basis for Beyond the Bruises Campaign

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05/27/2015

The Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR (R)), a national non-profit ... effects of domestic violence on chronic illness. A 2013 study conducted by MORE Magazine and the Verizon ... disease. Verizon...

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Rockefeller Foundation Commits $64 Million to 100 Resilient Cities

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07/29/2015

... leadership and commitment to the 100RC initiative. Since 2013 , sixty-seven cities have been selected through two challenge rounds. Applications for the final round will be accepted through November 24, .....

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The Nation Asks if Child Protective Services Has Gone Too Far

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10/05/2015

... Child Protective Services Has Gone Too Far On July 29, 2013 , a Latina mother in Illinois named Natasha Felix sent ... with his cousin over a scooter and, at one point, ran with it into the street. Based on...

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EPIP Welcomes Tamir Novotny as Incoming Executive Director

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10/27/2015

... Director, beginning Monday, November 16th. In preparing for his new role, Tamir stated: "I could not be more thrilled ... EPIP family, I've seen firsthand how powerful EPIP can be for its members and...

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New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits

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10/28/2015

New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits Remember how complicated it was to understand your health care benefits when you got ... them — and their employers — a lot of...

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Pershing Square Awards $5.4 Million to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program

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02/16/2016

... of Oxford's Saïd Business School. Established in 2013 with a gift of £4.5 million ($6.6 million) from the ... initially supported five one-year scholarships annually for promising social change leaders in...

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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09/30/2016

... students who attended a five- to six-week summer program for at least twenty days in 2013 scored modestly higher on state math tests than students ... who did not participate, and that students who attended...

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students? It ’s been said that a budget is a statement of policy, the ... spending spree that the United States has engaged in for the past three decades, investing...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... of the mixed-gender milestone. But female grunts see it as monumental and revolutionary. The first group of women ... After the Obama administration ordered the military in 2013 to open all combat positions to...

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines ... the focus of most writing has been on the use of data for competitive advantage, a small set of companies has been ... in...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... Change The patriarch of the Simons clan is best known for his math chops and science philanthropy. But heirs Nat ... largest funders of climate and clean energy work. ( It gave out $40 million in 2013...

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Mexican Women Stand Up to Cyberattacks and Vicious Digital Violence

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09/08/2017

... of the Take Back the Tech campaign began meeting in 2013 and launched Ciberseguras as a blog to share resources ... common, many women didn’t know where to turn for help. Even though millions of Mexicans still...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... tanks, Prosperity Now (formerly CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies, America’s already large racial wealth ... riff on George Orwell’s classic The Road to Wigan Pier. It projects that, if current...

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New York State Health Foundation Releases Snapshot: Success in the Empire State: Health Insurance Coverage Trends

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11/15/2017

... (ACA) effectively and expanding health insurance coverage for nearly 1 million additional residents since the law took ... Within New York, uninsured rates declined more than 40% for most racial groups, age...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as President since 2013 . Alexander, a renowned writer, poet, and scholar, is ...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... the average life expectancy in the United States declined for the first time in decades, a new report is out detailing ... from access, to the value of care Americans were paying for . According to the results...