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Brigadier General (Ret.) William T. Bester Joins Jonas Veterans Healthcare Program

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04/02/2012

... Program as Senior Advisor. Bester is the former Chief of the Army Nurse Corps. "General Bester's decades of ... to taking his current position, Bester served as the Vice President...

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The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill

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06/01/2013

... spends more on health care than any other country. (Fund President Dr. David Blumenthal is also quoted in this ... racked up what is likely her most expensive medical bill of the year: $6,385... The $2.7...

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

... Killed in Plane Crash Dr. Richard Rockefeller, son of philanthropist David Rockefeller, was killed Friday ... after takeoff. Dr. Rockefeller, an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a past...

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Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate

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11/20/2014

Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate President Obama could be announcing some executive orders ... reform on the political agenda. Julia Preston of the New York Times recently published a piece...

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New York Community Trust Launches 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Competition

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03/05/2015

... we need well-run nonprofits,” said Lorie Slutsky, president of The New York Community Trust, one of the region’s leading funders of nonprofits. “Our ...

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WSJ Seeks PNY Comment on Geffen $100 Million Gift to Lincoln Center

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03/04/2015

... mogul David Geffen has won naming rights for one of the premier venues in classical music with a $100 million gift toward the renovation of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing ... donors,...

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Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College

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03/16/2015

... to LaGuardia Community College Gail O. Mellow, the president of LaGuardia Community College, a two-year institution in ... call. It was Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman...

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Rockfeller Brothers Fund Weighs in on Motivation for Fossil Fuel Divestment

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05/18/2015

... every grant dollar we made," said Geraldine Watson, vice president of finance for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, said at a .....

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Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

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07/09/2015

... over the next two years. The investment is part of JPMorgan Chase's "New Skills at Work" initiative, which ... Alma DeMetropolis, managing director and New Jersey market president for JPMorgan...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

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08/28/2015

... Treatments Every organism -- from a seedling to a president -- must protect its DNA at all costs, but precisely ... between damage to its own DNA and the foreign DNA of an invading virus has remained a mystery...

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Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects

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09/21/2015

Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects ... our community," Bill Tommins, Southern Connecticut market president for Bank of America, said in a statement. "We...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Reveals that Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse

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10/09/2015

... on health care services, but they fared worst in terms of life expectancy, according to the Commonwealth Fund ... "Time and again, we see evidence that the amount of money we spend on health care in this...

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Johnson & Johnson to Provide Scholarships for Rutgers Students in Health-related Fields

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11/12/2015

... Fields As Rutgers launches a yearlong celebration of its 250th birthday, the university has received its first official gift to mark the occasion – a pledge of up to $50,000 from Rutgers’ longtime neighbor and...

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Luff to Leave Hess Corporation, CSR Operations to Move to Houston

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11/24/2015

... CSR Operations to Move to Houston Paula Luff, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Hess Corporation, is leaving Hess at the end of 2015. Paula built and led the CSR group for...

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Doris Duke Study Finds Promoting Abstinence, Fidelity for HIV Prevention Is Ineffective

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05/03/2016

... HIV risk, according to a new Stanford University School of Medicine study. Since 2004, the U.S. President ’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief, known ... that encourage men and women to limit their number ...

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Video: Rockefeller's Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star and Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

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07/05/2016

... and star Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Rockefeller President Judith Rodin to discuss the role of diversity in the arts, economic inclusion, and other topics on the second edition of Insight...

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Lois Quam Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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07/11/2016

Lois Quam Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors Lois Quam, until recently chief operating officer of The Nature Conservancy, has been elected to The ... focusing on global health partnerships, and...

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Difficulties Accessing Medical Records Will Soon Be Outdated, Says Commonwealth Fund

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10/21/2016

... said. They were hesitant to share the records for fear of malpractice, and to protect patients from bad news, but ... whole medical record in an electronic file, and not all of the information — such as...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Steps Into Political Arena With $50 Million Fund

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10/21/2016

... from opposing the death penalty to advocating for President Barack Obama’s health-care law, but they’ve ...

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Rockefeller's Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star and Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

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06/29/2016

... and star Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Rockefeller President Judith Rodin to discuss the role of diversity in the arts, economic inclusion, and other topics on the second edition of Insight...

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