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Two Hedge Fund Billionaires Donate $1M Each to Pro-Charter School Advocates

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10/21/2015

... Excellent Schools have declined to name the nonprofit’ s funders since it was founded in 2012. But a July filing with the state’ s Joint Commission on Public Ethics shows finance titans Dan ...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Insurers Selling More of Their Individual Health Plans in ACA Marketplaces

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06/02/2016

Commonwealth Fund Finds Insurers Selling More of Their Individual Health Plans in ACA Marketplaces The new health insurance exchanges are the core of the Affordable Care Act’ s (ACA) insurance...

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Commonwealth Fund Ranks US Health Care Last Among World's Wealthiest Nations

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10/16/2014

Commonwealth Fund Ranks US Health Care Last Among World 039 ; s Wealthiest Nations The drivers that determine whether a ... United States has not been easy. Even with the enactment of the...

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

... A study published today by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) Roski Eye Institute in JAMA Ophthalmology found that the U. S . prevalence in visual impairment (VI) and blindness is ... to...

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Policy Uncertainty over Affordable Care Act Means Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says

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05/23/2017

... over Affordable Care Act Means Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says Today, the Trump ... whether to continue to fund the Affordable Care Act’ s subsidies to defray health plan cost-...

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Commonwealth Fund Partners with New York Times and Harvard to Analyze Financial Reality of Being Sick

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10/19/2018

... New York Times and Harvard to Analyze FInancial Reality of Being Sick A recent survey, of some of the country’ s most seriously ill people, found that even with health ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund President Writes Op-Ed on Why Republican Health Reform Ideas Are Likely To Fail

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12/07/2016

... Likely To Fail Obamacare is squarely in the cross hairs of the incoming Trump administration and congressional ... have insurance through an employer will still have choices of stable, affordable, high-quality...

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Commonwealth Fund Research Cited in NYTimes Fact Check on White House OMB Claim

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03/10/2017

... Fact Check on White House OMB Claim President Trump’ s spokesman on Wednesday deflected concerns that a bill to ... Congressional Budget Office by questioning the agency’ s track record... Commonwealth Fund...

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Con Edison, Mertz Gilmore, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Support Radical Comedian's Latest Work at New York Live Arts

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03/21/2017

... Rockefeller Brothers Fund Support Radical Comedian 039 ; s Latest Work at New York Live Arts Truscott mines her own ... is an always-evolving work - a physicalized performance of writing (...

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Recording: PNY Health Working Group feat. Arturo Brito of Children's Health Fund (10.1.2025)

... Welcome & Introduction to Guest Speaker: Arturo Brito of Children 039 ; s Health Fund Presentation & Discussion on Health Landscape ... PNY Health Working Group feat. Arturo Brito...

Research to Prevent Blindness Funds New Smartphone Application to Detect Vision Problems in Young Patients

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11/05/2014

... have successfully used a smartphone app to image the back of the eye, or fundus, in patients who can be particularly ... The system can capture key structures at the back of the eye in a single view without...

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Supported by Commonwealth Fund, Study Shows Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test

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07/18/2016

... the Usability Test A new UCSF study finds that some of the most popular apps for diabetes, depression and ... to use, especially by underserved populations. Some of the most popular mHealth apps are basically...

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Ford, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, FB Heron Named to 2016 Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50

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08/01/2016

Mastering the balance between sustainability and change is why these 50 executives have been selected for the 2016 NPT Power & Influence Top 50.

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Howard Gilman, Laurie M. Tisch, Doris Duke and Mellon Fund Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ Latest Project

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10/18/2016

... latest project, Silent Voices, harnesses the power of young people to be instruments of change, giving voice to those who have been silenced or ... circumstances. The Chorus has commissioned a diverse group...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Shows Covered California Consumers Saving and Paying Much Less Than Expected for Quality Coverage

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01/11/2017

... Much Less Than Expected for Quality Coverage This analysis of health plan premium growth in California’ s insurance marketplaces, focusing on the policies that ... in 2014 was 11.6 percent less than the...

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Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List

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03/29/2017

Commonwealth Fund 039 ; s Kathy Regan Makes City and State 039 ; s Above & Beyond 2017 List The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, millions of...

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Capital One Invests $3 Million to Fund Machine Learning Research at University of Maryland

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12/15/2017

... $3 Million to Fund Machine Learning Research at University of Maryland A $3 million gift and partnership with Capitol ... analytics, machine learning and cybersecurity. University of Maryland and Capital One...

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Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships

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07/08/2016

Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker 039 ; s NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships "Internships," the ... "Are Not a Privilege." The op-ed was by Darren Walker of the...

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Finds Possible New Target for Glaucoma Therapy

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09/11/2015

... for Glaucoma Therapy Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have elucidated a genetic interaction that may prove key to the development and progression of...

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