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Comparing the 2016 Presidential Candidates’ Health Proposals

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09/2016

The Commonwealth Fund recently commissioned analysts with the RAND Corporation to crunch the numbers and find out how some of the candidates’ proposals would affect health care in the U.S. You can now learn all about the findings in two new Commonwealth Fund reports, our online comparison tool, and a summary on the Fund’s To the Point blog. In modeling the candidates’ proposals, RAND’s Christine Eibner and her team found that Clinton’s would increase the number of people with health coverage, while Trump’s would decrease the number. The analyses also show lower out-of-pocket costs for...

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Improving Faculty Preparation in Research Universities

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09/2016

The Teagle Foundation’s Graduate Student Teaching in the Arts and Sciences (GSTAS) initiative, first piloted in 2010 and expanded in 2012, engaged hundreds of graduate students, faculty, staff, and senior administrators across eight elite universities and two professional associations in thinking deeply about undergraduate teaching and learning.

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Education

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The Teagle Foundation

Have Student Loan Guaranty Agencies Lost Their Way?

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09/2016

This report looks at the rise and current limbo status of the legacy student loan guaranty agencies. It examines the current activities of two guaranty agencies that appear to be severely diverging from their missions, ECMC and USA Funds, and makes recommendations for putting their resources to better use.

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The Century Foundation

Registered Nurses: Partners in Transforming Primary Care

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09/2016

The recommendations stem from a June 2016 Macy Conference that brought together more than 40 leaders in nursing, primary care, healthcare delivery, philanthropy, academia and more, to generate actionable recommendations around the potential for registered nurses to help meet today’s urgent needs in primary care.

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity: Core Concepts in Capacity Building

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09/2016

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Americans Speak Out About the Arts

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08/2016

The American public is more broadly engaged in the arts than previously understood, believes that the arts play a vital role in personal well‐being and healthier communities, and that the arts are core to a well‐rounded education.

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Arts

Medicaid’s Role in Meeting Seniors’ Long-Term Services and Supports Needs

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08/2016

This fact sheet describes how seniors become eligible for Medicaid LTSS, what LTSS Medicaid covers, and how much Medicaid spends for those services, and highlights key policy issues in Medicaid and LTSS.

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Examining the 990: An Informative Series on Completing the Form

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08/2016

Examining the 990: An Informative Series on Completing the Form In order to justify their tax-exempt status, every year non-profit organizations must file a 990 form with the IRS. Due to popular demand, The Chronicle has released a series of articles to help readers come away with a better understanding of the form, section-by-section, including how to fill it out, and why it’s so important. Organizations will get valuable information on topics including: Outlining their accomplishments Reporting on contributions Avoiding common missteps Other insider tips

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Beyond the Dollars: The Long-Term Value of Giving Days for Community Foundations

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08/2016

While much of the focus for these online fundraising campaigns has been on the money raised for nonprofit participants, there has been little examination—until now—of the ways in which Giving Days actually benefit the community foundations that organize them.

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Reducing Economic Inequality Through Democratic Worker-Ownership

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08/2016

Income inequality in the United States has not been this bad in almost a century—not since the end of the 1920s, just before the country crashed into the Great Depression.

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Economic Security

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The Century Foundation

The Power of Funder Collaboration

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08/2016

This report showcases not only the incredible work of our funder collaboratives, but the lessons we’ve learned about working together to forward bold and creative solutions to complex problems.

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The New York Community Trust

Health Care Transformation Resources for State Leaders

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08/2016

The National Governors Association and the National Academy of Medicine, funded by the Peterson Center on Healthcare, identified promising state-based innovations that can potentially be replicated.

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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On The Map: The Atlas of Student Homelessness in New York City 2016

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08/2016

In New York City, one out of every eight children attending public school in SY 2014-15 experienced homelessness within the past five school years.

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Housing and Homelessness

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How Are Kids Spending Their Time Afterschool?

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08/2016

America After 3PM spans a decade of data chronicling how children spend the hours between 3 and 6 p.m. — the hours after school ends and before parents typically return home from work.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health System Performance for the High-Need Patient: A Look at Access to Care and Patient Care Experiences

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08/2016

This brief—the second in a series—examines the characteristics and health care experiences of adults with high needs, defined as people with three or more chronic diseases and a functional limitation in their ability to care for themselves or perform routine daily tasks.

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Americans’ Experiences with ACA Marketplace Coverage: Affordability and Provider Network Satisfaction

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07/2016

This brief examines the costs of marketplace plans and how consumers view the affordability of their health insurance.

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Finance & Asset Management

2016 Foundation Administrative Expense Survey

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07/2016

Philanthropy New York provides support to the local peer network for private foundation CFOs: Foundation Financial Managers Group (FFMG). Each year, FFMG conducts a survey on foundation administrative costs so executives and trustees may easily compare their data with that of peer foundations.

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The Commonwealth Fund Scorecard on Local Health System Performance, 2016 Edition

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07/2016

This 2016 edition of The Commonwealth Fund’s Scorecard on Local Health System Performance assesses the state of health care in more than 300 U.S. communities from 2011 through 2014, a period when the Affordable Care Act was being implemented across the country.

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How Philanthropy Can Help Achieve the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals in the U.S.

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07/2016

This report from the Council on Foundations examines how U.S. funders can view their work in the global development framework and contribute to the success of the goals in the United States.

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