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Transforming the System

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10/2016

Our new interactive report, “Transforming the System,” examines the American public discourse on criminal justice, outlines a range of policy solutions for transforming our outdated and unjust criminal justice policies, and provides ideas for how to talk about them.

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2016 Needs Assessment Survey SUMMARY REPORT TO NPCC MEMBERS

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10/2016

The results from this assessment will guide NPCC’s strategic programming decisions as well as help NPCC identify patterns relating to policy, government regulations, and nonprofit management—issues that affect all nonprofits, regardless of size, age, or mission.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Report Finds Long-term Business Performance Tied to Social Responsibility

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10/2016

The "Giving in Numbers" report is CECP’s annual proprietary analysis of corporate contributions, drawn from company-reported data through the annual Giving in Numbers Survey.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society

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10/2016

This inaugural volume of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Our Compelling Interests series illustrates that a diverse population offers our communities a prescription for thriving now and in the future.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Integrated Schools in a Segregated City

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10/2016

Ten strategies that have made New York City elementary schools more diverse.

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The Slowdown in Employer Insurance Cost Growth: Why Many Workers Still Feel the Pinch

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10/2016

Many families feel pinched by their health care costs: despite a recent surge, income growth has not kept pace in many areas of the U.S. Employee contributions to premiums and deductibles amounted to 10.1 percent of U.S. median income in 2015, compared to 6.5 percent in 2006.

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The Commonwealth Fund

Catalytic Philanthropy Helps Build Healthier Communities

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10/2016

What are the roles and responsibilities of philanthropy in building healthy communities? A new report from the Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN) takes a look at this question by profiling 38 efforts around the country to advance healthier communities. The report, Summarizing the Landscape of Healthy Communities: A Review of Demonstration Programs Working Towards Health Equity , asks and answers three key questions, one specifically focused on the responsibilities of philanthropy: What actions are communities across the U.S. undertaking to promote healthy communities? At the community level...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

Developing a Young Adult Workforce Partnership on Staten Island - A JobsFirstNYC Working Paper

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10/2016

Staten Island suffers from low levels of public and private investments in workforce services, a lack of viable public transportation, and a scarcity of high-quality jobs...

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Workforce Development

Young Immigrants are Making a Difference in the 2016 Election

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10/2016

Fi2W’s new online magazine Democracy from the Ground Up: Young Immigrants and the 2016 Election features stories by and about members of an engaged generation working to strengthen democracy nationally and locally.

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Targeting Workforce Dollars: You Don’t Get What You Don’t Pay For

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10/2016

The third of Steven Dawson’s Pinkerton Paper Series explores the different challenges of low-income jobseekers who are all seeking the stability and respect that steady employment can provide.

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Workforce Development

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The Pinkerton Foundation

The Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage on Hunger in America

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09/2016

Today, 14.0 percent of American households—about one in seven—suffer from food insecurity, which means they do not have the resources to provide enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members.

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The Century Foundation

Overlooked: Women and Jails in an Era of Reform

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09/2016

Since 1970, there has been a nearly five-fold increase in the number of people in U.S. jails—the approximately 3,000 county or municipality-run detention facilities that primarily hold people arrested but not yet convicted of a crime.

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Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.

Preventing Missed Opportunity: Taking Collective Action to Confront Chronic Absence

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09/2016

More than 6.5 million students, or about 13 percent, missed three or more weeks of school during a single school year, which is enough time to erode their achievement and threaten their chance of graduating.

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Smart Skills versus Mindless Megadeals: Cost-Effective Workforce Development versus Costly “Buffalo Hunting,” with Proven Policy Solutions

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09/2016

Workforce training is a cheaper, more cost-effective economic development option for states and cities than corporate "megadeals," a new report from Good Jobs First has found.

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Workforce Development

How the ACA’s Health Insurance Expansions Have Affected Out-of-Pocket Cost-Sharing and Spending on Premiums

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09/2016

As enrollment in ACA plans increased, share of Americans with high out-of-pocket costs decreased.

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The Commonwealth Fund

Zika Virus Infection in Mice Causes Panuveitis with Shedding of Virus in Tears

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09/2016

Beyond the clinical syndromes of microcephaly, intrauterine growth restriction, and fetal demise, several clinical studies have observed eye malformations and pathology in neonates born to mothers infected with ZIKV during pregnancy.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

Raising Our Nation: Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America

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09/2016

This report provides a comprehensive look at our country’s childcare landscape, including its underlying gender- and-race-based inequities.

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Learning to Be Useful: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Supporting Career and Technical Education

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09/2016

If you are a donor who wants to bolster America’s workforce, this practical book will show you how.

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Workforce Development

Diversity in New York City’s Universal Pre-K Classrooms

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09/2016

This report looks at one of the ways that New York City can make pre-K better: by giving more children the chance to learn in racially and socioeconomically diverse preschool classrooms.

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The Century Foundation

“Why Wait Years to Become Something?” Low-income African American Youth and the Costly Career Search in For-profit Trade Schools

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09/2016

Using data from fieldwork with 150 inner-city African American youth, we examine why disadvantaged youth are attracted to these schools and why they struggle to complete certifications.

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