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Kara Whelply
Kara Whelply is an Associate Director, MI Philanthropy. She works on the Center’s biomedical rese
arch team, where she advises individual philanthropists on therapeutic development with methods to identify, fund, and accelerate treatments.
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Policy Brief: Improving Women, Infants, and Children’s Access to Food and Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
To address the impact that the COVID-19 virus is having on food access, this issue brief highlights
recent policies and puts forward a recommendation to ensure that the over 6 million individuals who participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Pro
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Comment Letter: Office of Management and Budget (OMB) – Practices for Advancing Equity and Support for Underserved Communities
Submitted electronically
To: The Honorable Shalanda Young, Acting Director, Office of Management an
d Budget
From: Richard Ditizio, President and Chief Operating Officer, Milken Institute
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Mobilizing Stalled Assets from Big Pharma for Neglected Patient Groups
As part of the BRIDGE initiative, FasterCures seeks to highlight novel partnerships involving deprio
ritized drugs that can serve as models for future transactio
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Feeding Change Mid-Year Update
Dear friends,
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Closing the Data Gap to Rebuild a More Inclusive and Sustainable Economy
As the past months have shown, technology both connects and divides us. Children returning to school
may not have a reliable connection to their teachers., Every sector, and every company, can play a vital role in leveraging knowledge and information for social impact., Mayor Nutter’s words struck a deep chord for me. It crystalized much of what we’ve been working toward at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
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Comment Letter: Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Request for Information
Submitted electronically
The Honorable Diana DeGette
US House of Representatives
Washington, DC 205
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The Honorable Fred Upton
US House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
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Senator Markey Introduces Legislation To Support Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Development
Washington (July 29, 2021) – Senator Edward J.
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Longevity and Philanthropy: Wallis Annenberg GenSpace on Reimagining Aging
The writer Martha Beck once said this of growing old: “Everybody has to do it, but I always believed
an exception would be made in my case.”, We have to start seeing and valuing older people as the very embodiment of the strength, wisdom, and spirit of society.
, The simple fact is that aging is a cultural and social phenomenon as much as it is a biological one. But unlike those societies that actually revere the elderly for their experience and wisdom, our American culture too often regards them with pity.
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