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NY Community Trust Announces Three Staff Promotions to Program Director

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07/28/2016

... to Program Director : Irfan Hasan is responsible for our Health and Behavioral Health grants in our Healthy ... the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Global Fund for Women. Michele has a bachelor’s...

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ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide

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03/16/2017

... Guide The ASPCA and Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) are doing their ...

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Supported by NY Community Trust, New Research Ties Arts to Well-Being

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04/19/2017

... kids a chance to challenge themselves. We’ve long sensed that the arts improve communities. Now we have proof. New ... These “cultural ecosystems” improve quality of life for ordinary New Yorkers. The two-year...

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Bloomberg Backed “Global Street Design Guide” Now Available Free Online

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05/22/2017

... of this week, the Global Street Design Guide, a handbook for cities around the world to design safe, sustainable streets, is available to the public as for free online. The guide was first released last...

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families

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08/25/2017

... Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families The Commonwealth Fund recently released a study using data from the federal Consumer Expenditure Survey ... in nonexpansion...

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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

... Serious Toll A very slender friend recently admitted to me that she “can’t stand to be around fat people.” Her ... they can strongly influence someone’s behavior. A new study by researchers at Duke University...

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Aging Out of Foster Care Makes Eating Right a Challenge

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09/18/2017

... guidance on how to prepare nutritious meals or how to shop for healthy food on a budget so he decided to advocate for such programming at his foster care agency, which ... those deficits. “It wasn’t until the...

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate? A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change. In this article, we build on research on social change,1 including our own...

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Nonprofits Scramble to Respond to the New DACA Deadline

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09/29/2017

... administration ordered an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Sept. 5, nonprofit ... Barack Obama in a June 2012 executive order, that allows some 800,000 undocumented immigrants who...

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How America Gives Special Report: Breaking the Charity Habit

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10/03/2017

... Charity Habit Each year, the charity world waits eagerly for the announcement of how much individual Americans gave to charity. And each year, that annual total doggedly climbs higher, faltering only ... to a...

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Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Many worried that the increase in raids and deportations would lead to a ... a community dominated by Latinx immigrants, NPR reports that according to Houston Police...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers

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02/02/2018

... Research supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies finds that patients with an inherited form of colon cancer harbor ... who develop a sporadic form of colon cancer. A second study in mice published concurrently...

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Enabling Sustainable Investment in Social Interventions: A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools

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02/02/2018

... A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools New study by The Commonwealth Fund highlights Medicaid managed ... care plan and provider investment options available for states to address social drivers...

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The United Hospital Fund Releases Report on Positive Impact of Home Health Care

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04/30/2018

... information on this complex issue is limited, a study by Kathyrn Bowles, PhD, of the Visiting Nurse Service ... of New York and the University of Pennsylvania, found that 28 percent of 495 eligible patients...

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Fewer Rocks & a Traffic Light = Greater Effectiveness & More Success

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12/14/2010

... staff members use their time more effectively, confident that they are focusing on the right issues. Wellspring ... its financial due diligence. While somewhat helpful, most presented exhaustive checklists of...

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How do we conspire to shift philanthropy?

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11/02/2023

... – Farhad Ebrahimi, Executive Director, Chorus Foundation Organizer Farhad Ibrahimi’s quote framed ... Practice , earlier this year. Ebrahimi’s offering, and that of our annual meeting, is to explore not only...

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07 Jan 2019

Debriefing the 2018 Elections - A First Monday Discussion Webinar Hosted by FCCP

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3:00pm to 4:15pm

This program is hosted by our partner, Funders' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP), who has extended an ... history-making results from the Midterm Elections, join us for an important discussion on the...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches Asphalt Art Initiative, Providing Cities How-To Guidance to Transform Streets and Public Spaces with Artwork

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10/28/2019

... power to reshape the way we experience our cities. We saw that time and again during my time as Mayor of New York City: ... or bike lanes, we created even safer, more vibrant streets for everyone. Now, we’re...

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