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The Commonwealth Fund Finds that Middle-income Americans are Paying More for Health Insurance

Release Date:

12/10/2018

... variation between states' total healthcare costs. The report also found vast differences in costs between five states studied. Overall, national ... slower healthcare spending growth. The slower cost...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Health

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Materials for Philanthropy New York's 42nd Annual Meeting Business Meeting

Publication date:

05/2021

... 2021 Draft Minutes from the 41st Annual Meeting 2021 Report of the Governance & Nominating Committee Biographical ... the candidates nominated to the Board of Directors Formal Report of the Board of Directors to the memebrs (audited ...

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How Grantmakers Can Respond to the State Budget Crises

Release Date:

09/28/2011

In this essay accompanying a new Foundation Center study on ... on nonprofits, Doug Bauer, Executive Director of The Clark Foundation and Chair of the Board of Directors of ...

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The Clark Foundation

Community Philanthropy: Using Both Sides of the Brain

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09/07/2012

Ahead of the Council on Foundations' Fall Conference for Community Foundations, TCC Group Senior Partner and Chief Client Services Officer Paul Connolly asked: How can community foundations balance quick responses to critical issues with carefully...

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Commonwealth Fund's Blumenthal Explores Health Data Security in WSJ Editorial

Release Date:

05/01/2015

... Fund's Blumenthal Explores Health Data Security in WSJ Editorial With the rapid spread of electronic health records, much critical health data is already digitized. Pretty soon, all that information will...

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The New York Community Trust

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Technology

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Mellon Funds Efforts to Bring Medieval Works to the Digital World

Release Date:

02/24/2016

... Library can plunge into the Middle Ages and study a 15th- century text that shows the Earth as the center of the ... religious songbook, adorned with gold leaf and painted in bright hues on calfskin, and held...

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Technology

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Bloomberg Philanthropies: Six Things Cities Need to Know About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles

Release Date:

05/08/2017

... CNN says we’ve reached “a tipping point for excitement in self-driving cars.” But too much attention has been on ... delivery bots, and high-efficiency trucks. The real story is how much Autonomous Vehicles...

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Community Development

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Unemployment’s Steady Fall Could Signal Trouble—or a Broader Structural Shift

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... low of 4.3% and may not be done falling. The question is whether that is good news because it means the economy is ... Reserve Bank of San Francisco finds that over the past century...

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Economic Security

Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... When images of white supremacists taking the streets in Charlottesville first surfaced, thousands of New Yorkers ... against racism and hatred. But even though New York City is seen as a progressive place, we...

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Gender Justice

Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... that mix, for both the political and philanthropic class. In its purest form, the idea is to provide a long-term guaranteed cash payment to every ... Variants of the idea have bubbled up for centuries, and...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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08 Jan 2020

Investing in the Future of Our Community: A Case Study on Funders’ Motivations for Supporting CSAs - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Wednesday, January 8, 2020 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

*This program is hosted by our partner, Asset Funders Network (AFN), who ... CSAs have many benefits, yet until now, we were not sure what compelled some funders to invest and others not to. This ... Institute on...

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Children, Youth and Families

Economic Security

Prudential Seeks New York's Top Youth Volunteers of 2016

Release Date:

09/09/2015

... Volunteers of 2016 Now through November 3, students in grades 5-12 are invited to apply for Prudential Spirit of ... service within the past 12 months. The application is available at http://spirit.prudential...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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United Way of New York City Helps Distribute More Than 100 Backpacks to Brownsville Students

Release Date:

10/04/2016

... Way of New York City (UWNYC) to make this first day of school possible. Together, they distributed more than 100 backpacks covered in beloved heroes and brimming with school supplies to...

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United Way of New York City

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New York City’s Top Science And Math Teachers Honored With Prestigious Sloan Awards

Release Date:

12/07/2016

... of the eighth annual Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics. The awards recognize creative science and mathematics teachers in New York City public high schools who achieve superb .....

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check

Release Date:

08/28/2017

As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check In the last five years, dozens of schools have popped up ... promise: Even humanities graduates can learn how to code in a few months and join the high-...

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Workforce Development

New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say

Release Date:

09/19/2017

New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say A universal pre-kindergarten center with 180 seats is coming to East 76th Street, providing spots in a ... pre-K options...

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Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... at Brooklyn’s New American Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials killed an experimental pay program at the school . Highly qualified instructors at the public...

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... Are Getting Younger New York City's preschool expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes ... the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the ...

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