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Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council

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03/21/2016

... Way’s Women’s Leadership Council The United Way of New York City’s Women’s Leadership Council’s held it’s 10th annual Power of Women to Make a Difference Award Luncheon honoring several ... officer at Macy’s;...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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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 ... to double over the next 35 years. By 2050, the number of Americans with a variety ...

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20 Jun 2016

Philanthropy, Refugees, and the Global Humanitarian Crisis: World Refugee Day - Webinar

Monday, June 20, 2016 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Expanding Perspectives on the Integration of Refugees Refugee integration is not just about how our ... of gender, race, and age. Speakers Jamie-Rose Edwards, Co- Director & Co-Founder, Young...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change

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12/08/2016

... investment in renewable energy worldwide surpassed that of fossil fuels last year. That economic transformation ... change. Morton led the Overseas Private Investment Corp. as its chief operating office before...

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30 Mar 2017

Is Immigration Detention the New Incarceration Boom?

Thursday, March 30, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... the second in the four-part Ending the Criminalization of Poverty series. Every night, approximately 40,000 ... run prison facilities all over the United States, as part of a federally...

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Washing Off the Old Year and Setting Intentions for the New

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01/04/2017

... Bear” swim out at Coney Island to a Japanese tradition of standing under a waterfall or the Spanish tradition of ... strategic plan . Our plan covers a number of areas, but as...

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SeaChange Capital Partners Writes "Coming Back from Bankruptcy: How We Fixed Healing Arts Initiative"

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06/06/2017

... bankruptcy a year ago, it was the last in a series of tragic events that was seemingly the death knell for the 47-year-old nonprofit. Former executive director D. Alexandra Dyer had been attacked with drain...

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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

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07/20/2017

... is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the system of formal financial services which can serve as bridge out of poverty and unlock opportunities that can ... Inclusive Finance efforts—...

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’s population – are covered by at least one ... quadrupled since 2007 when only 1 billion people, and 15% of the world’s population, were...

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Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids

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08/29/2017

... Their complaints range widely, from specific problems such as intractable lower-back pain to systemic issues such as ... during their time at Mayo. Still, more than 80 percent of the patients...

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If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk

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09/21/2017

... for five more years. The announcement, coming after months of pressure from children’s advocacy organizations, marked ... in less than two weeks, families nationwide may be at risk of losing health coverage...

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Nursing Home Evacuations Should Not Be “All or Nothing,” Says GSA Member in Senate Testimony

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09/21/2017

... U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging today, University of South Florida professor Kathryn Hyer, PhD, MPP, FGSA, ... of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and serves as...

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The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm.

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09/26/2017

... embraced one another in greeting. Bartenders poured wine as a D.J. spun tunes and a machine spouted popcorn. This ... block party or a family reunion. It was the recent opening of an exhibition at the Studio...

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Name-Dropping: Donors Get Tired. Models Do, Too

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09/28/2017

... lapsed donor files — are among the most valuable sources of names for their campaigns. Karen Gleason, senior director at the American Diabetes Association (ADA), always ... question: Could the way the names...

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Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front We hear a lot about the lack of diversity ... women and LGBTQ people. Groundswell was founded in 2003 as a $300,000...

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State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare

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09/29/2017

... to slash funding for enrollment assistance and marketing of insurance policies offered to individuals through the ... the insurance market ” said Donna Frescatore, executive director of NY...

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Nonprofits Scramble to Respond to the New DACA Deadline

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09/29/2017

... legal challenges and such an “open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority.” The administration gave Congress six months ... said Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO and...

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Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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10/02/2017

... students are set to expire Saturday and members say months of silence from the White House has them worried they’re ... the Hispanic commission who is a research professor and co- director at the Civil Rights...

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Total Health Costs of Industrial Food Systems Are “Staggering,” Says New Report

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10/10/2017

Total Health Costs of Industrial Food Systems Are “Staggering,” Says New ... between industrial food and farming practices and many of the “severest health conditions afflicting populations ... are making people...

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