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A Mental-Health Nonprofit Popular Among Colleges Is Expanding. Has Its Approach Worked?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Now a foundation bearing his name — and based on an Air Force program — is working to improve mental health in hundreds of colleges. By Kay Dervishi Courtesy of the Satow Family Jed Satow (second from right) was a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Arizona when he took his own life.

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Financier Len Blavatnik Gives Yale $40 Million to Develop New Health Technologies

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento Christopher Capozziello, The New York Times, Redux Yale University will use a $40 million gift to expand a life-sciences center that focuses on early-stage research and the development of new biomedical products and health technologies through the support of start-up businesses and industry partnerships.

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Scientist Leaves $30 Million to University of Mary Washington to Back Undergraduate Research

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento University of Mary Washington Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Department of Chemistry and Physics Janet Asper (right) works with senior chemistry major Dorothy Haas in Experimental Methods, a course that has students separating and identifying the molecules within a mixture. Plus, the U.S.

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Duke Endowment Awards $75 Million to 3 Universities in North and South Carolina

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

million to back programs for homeless New Yorkers with serious health needs, and the new Adobe Film & TV Fund will award $6 million to help filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds find careers in entertainment. Also, the Helmsley Charitable Trust gave $17.6

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Retired Blackstone Partner and Wife Give $25 Million for Early-Childhood Health

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, which will, among other things, help ensure that new parents have access to quality health care, social services, and the tools to keep their babies safe at home, in cars, and while they are sleeping. Plus, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve supports a D.C. neighborhood museum.

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Univ. of Illinois Lands $50 Million From Tech Billionaire Tom Siebel

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento Boris Baldinger, World Economic Forum Siebel is a University of Illinois alumnus who earned three degrees from the university in the 1970s and ‘80s. The gift launches the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science.

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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: DOERS on istockphoto.com Studies of climate change impacts “have largely focused on physical health,” according to a policy brief issued in summer 2022 by the World Health Organization (WHO). And as the climate crisis continues, whose mental health is most at risk? Why are children most in jeopardy?

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