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Ruskay Reflects on 15 Years At Helm of UJA-Fed NY

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06/11/2014

... the organization's mobilization in response to crises-- from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to Hurricane Sandy in New York, and from Israeli military engagements with Hamas, to launching .....

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First Payment Made Toward Detroit's 'Grand Bargain'

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12/12/2014

... retirement systems this week as part of the city’s exit from bankruptcy. The Foundation for Detroit’s Future, a nonprofit created specifically to transfer funds from 12 foundations and the Detroit Institute of...

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Simons Foundation Funds Groundbreaking Autism Research

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12/15/2014

... responses and related inflammation, an analysis of data from autopsied human brains reveals. The study, a ... and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, included data from 72 autism and control brains. It...

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Health

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Ford, OSF and Others Join Forces to Safeguard Internet Liberties

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02/05/2015

... Over the past two decades, the Internet has evolved from an obscure Defense Department project to a global ... good. The group, which includes several heavy hitters from the foundation world including the Ford...

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Mellon Foundation Gives Inaugural National History Teacher of the Year Award

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03/13/2015

... teacher in Michigan to receiver the prestigious honor from The HISTORY Channel and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of ... and education and her graduate degree in history both from Eastern Michigan University...

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Rockefeller Report Cited by Geena Davis at United Nations Convening

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03/13/2015

... bias’ they are raised with later on. We can fix it from the very beginning.” The Academy Award-Winning Actor, ... Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, said the data from her research shows “disturbing”...

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Rita Allen Foundation Passionate About Funding Breakthrough Solutions to Significant Problems

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08/26/2015

... Breakthrough Solutions to Significant Problems The view from the third-floor corner office at 92 Nassau St. is one of ... and bustle of one of the busiest main streets in town. From where she sits, at a...

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With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database

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02/22/2016

... American Art Museum is leading a group of 14 institutions from around the country in an effort to build a shared, and ... through Linked Open Data (or LOD), SAAM received a grant from the Andrew M. Mellon...

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Guttman Community College to Move to UWS

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04/05/2016

... of New York’s newest institution, will relocate from its Midtown home to much larger digs in a CUNY-owned ... community college in more than four decades, will relocate from Allied Partners’ 50 West 40th...

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Stella and Charles Guttman Community College CUNY

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Rockefeller Foundation Grants 'Hamilton' Tix to Bronx Theatre High School Students

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04/07/2016

‘Hamilton’ Tickets for Students and Wisdom From Its Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the ... tickets through a nearly $1.5 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gilder Lehrman ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Youth Crime Prevention Program

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04/29/2016

... think the organization’s primary focus is removing guns from the streets. In fact, Memphis Gun Down exists to prevent the city’s youth from ever picking up a gun. A three-year Bloomberg ...

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Doris Duke Teams Up With Chicago's Stomping Grounds Dance Festival

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04/29/2016

... groups. STOMPING GROUNDS is made possible by major support from the Chicago Free For All Fund atThe Chicago Community ... Foundation, and Joyce Chelberg with additional funding from the National Endowment for...

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Century Foundation Report Analyzes 'Identity Threat' Some College Students Face

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05/18/2016

... 'Identity Threat' Some College Students Face A new report from the Century Foundation considers the issue of "identity ... in college. The report suggests that students face bias from some...

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Backed By Long Island Community Foundation, Town Hall Meetings Identify Issues Facing Trans Community

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06/07/2016

... Identify Issues Facing Trans Community The journey from transitioning from male to female was a struggle for Kelly Leigh Metzgar. ...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Atlantic Philanthropies Report Examines Human Rights Program in Ireland

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06/24/2016

... lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, a report from the foundation finds. The report, Making a Difference: Capturing the Learning From The Atlantic Philanthropies Human Rights Program in ...

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to Launch Iterative Learning Fellowship

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07/08/2016

... Hill has been awarded a new four-year, $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Carolina ... of the Mellon Foundation-funded Arts@TheCore initiative from 2012, which emphasized the important...

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Simons Foundation Gives $1.5M to Explore New Approaches to Data Mining

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08/01/2016

... The same goes for identifying an extinct ape from a single fossilized tooth, or telling an original van Gogh from a fake. But in recent years, applied mathematician ...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

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09/01/2016

... experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers. Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow ... of teacher by subject matter—will be decided with input from teachers themselves...

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Commonwealth Fund Brief Explains ACA’s Effect on Out-of-Pocket Cost-Sharing, Spending on Premiums

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09/13/2016

... through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is protection from high out-of-pocket health spending. While Medicaid ... to comply with the law’s individual mandate also protect from high health spending.....

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