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Dr. David Blumenthal Looks Back as The Commonwealth Fund Celebrates 100 Years

Release Date:

05/07/2018

... last 100 years, The Commonwealth Fund has been committed to improving the health of the American people as well as working on international ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma

Release Date:

06/09/2014

It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma Writing in the Wall ... Street Journal, Dr. David Blumenthal, president and CEO of the Commonwealth Fund, says that the United States needs "creative new solutions...

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Bloomberg Report: 'Data Gap' at City Halls Across the Nation

Release Date:

03/10/2016

... Limited training and resources hamper city efforts to use data-based decisionmaking in public safety, economic ... and 39 visits to municipalities in 2015—representative of about 40 percent...

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JPMorgan Launched a New Tool to Help Fill 7,500 Finance Jobs in New York City

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07/12/2017

JPMorgan Launched a New Tool to Help Fill 7,500 Finance Jobs in New York City Thousands of finance jobs are available in New York City, and JPMorgan ... a bachelor's degree. According to a...

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Workforce Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Soviet-Era Program Gives Even Unoppressed Immigrants an Edge

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... Growing up in the 1970s and ’80s in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, Halyna Davydyuk was bullied by classmates and by teachers, who forced her to sit in the last row because she was an evangelical .....

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Fatherhood After 40? It's Becoming A Lot More Common

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... alone. In the U.S., the average age a woman gives birth to her first child has been rising. And, a study published ... dads are getting older, too. In 1972, the average age of fathers of...

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Children, Youth and Families

The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear

Release Date:

09/07/2017

... news leaked on Monday that President Trump had decided to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) ... — the 2012 policy that granted administrative relief to some 800,000 undocumented...

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Immigration

In Rural Kenya, Escaping A Deadly Disease Sometimes Takes A Little Luck

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... tentatively before lifting his faded Marvel Heroes T-shirt to reveal over a dozen small scars across his slightly distended stomach. “I was in a lot of pain when I had the treatment, and I was very scared...

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How Much Did These 90 Companies Add to Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?

Release Date:

09/11/2017

How Much Did These 90 Companies Add to Global Warming and Sea Level Rise? Can millimeters of sea level rise or increments of warming on the globe's thermometer be attributed to...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... mitigate similar crises. Though the authors found much to dislike in President Obama’s decisions on Syria, they ...

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Arts

Report: Most NY Colleges Comply with Sex Assault Law

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... Most NY Colleges Comply with Sex Assault Law A majority of New York’s colleges and universities are handling instances and allegations of sexual assault in accordance with the state’s “Enough is Enough” law,...

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Gender Justice

Tumult After AIDS Fund-Raiser Supports Harvey Weinstein Production

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... producer Harvey Weinstein arranged for two items to be auctioned off at a fund-raiser for amfAR, a New ... a sitting with a famous fashion photographer and a package of tickets to a Hollywood...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

De Blasio’s ‘Homeless Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... Nearly two years after Mayor de Blasio announced a plan to create 15,000 units of supportive housing to deal with the homelessness crisis, ... 250 units would be operating in 2016 — the first...

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Housing and Homelessness

Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... Americans who were left behind as the country pulled out of the Great Recession — African Americans, Hispanics and ... improvements didn't narrow the inequality gap: The share of U.S. income held by the...

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Economic Security

Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

Release Date:

10/04/2017

Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow? Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance — attaching ... rise, to...

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Education

Would a Later School Start Time Increase Student Success?

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... not, why not? And if not, what do you think could be done to ensure you get more sleep during the school year? In ... waking up much earlier than they’d prefer as they return to school. . . Would a Later...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back?

Release Date:

10/06/2017

... I wonder what’s holding us back. Improving the capacity of funders to invest more equitably will involve larger, longer, less ... leadership and organizations created and led by leaders of...

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For the Disabled, New York’s Sidewalks Are an Obstacle Course

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... at sidewalk corners where the curb ramp is too broken to roll over or missing altogether. He has to keep going around the block until he finds a usable ramp. The one time he tried to...

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Community Development

Disabilities

20 Oct 2023

Funders Working Group for New York’s Newcomers

Friday, October 20, 2023 - 3:30pm

The New York Community Trust invites funders to a working group for funders to share updates and discuss funding opportunities to support immigrants arriving in New York City and State. ...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Immigration

Leading With Race Equity: Building Stronger Culture and Practice

... organization been assessing or re-assessing its approaches to better achieve racial equity? Are you interested in deepening your critical analysis of inequity and building more equitable models of...

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