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JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices

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11/04/2015

JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’ s Menu Choices To parents of picky eaters across the ... study published in the journal Obesity, researchers from ChildObesity180 at Tufts University Friedman...

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NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability

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11/09/2015

... to encounter firsthand the land and people put in harm’ s way by the proposed Pebble Mine. This vast open-pit gold ... and thousands of wilderness acres that sustainthe world’ s largest sockeye salmon fishery...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey: Healthcare Unaffordable for Many Even With Insurance

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11/20/2015

... using healthcare, according to results released Friday from a national survey conducted by the nonprofit ...

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Commonwealth Fund: Latest Scorecard on Health System Performance Shows More Improvement Than Decline Across States

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12/09/2015

... care expanded across the nation, The Commonwealth Fund’ s latest Scorecard on State Health System Performance finds. ... series to reflect a full year of the Affordable Care Act’ s health insurance expansions—...

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Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research

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12/09/2015

... National Institutes of Health to align two of the world’ s largest repositories of donated postmortem brain tissue for ... use to collect, prepare and preserve the field’ s most precious and limited resource...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Scholarship on America’s Immigration History, including Interactive Graphics

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12/17/2015

Mellon Foundation Supports Scholarship on America’ s Immigration History, including Interactive Graphics ... along the Mexican border, the University of Richmond’ s Digital Scholarship Lab created this detailed...

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Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide

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01/04/2016

... approval for tougher background checks and other measures from Nevada to Maine. . . Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as ...

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Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)

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01/06/2016

... homelessness is a chronic New York problem, as we can tell from walking the streets or reviewing simple statistics. On ...

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Carnegie, Helmsley-funded Report: Fewer than 1 in 7 Community College Students Get Bachelor’s Degree

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01/19/2016

... than 1 in 7 Community College Students Get Bachelor’ s Degree Low-income students who transfer from community colleges to four-year colleges are less likely ... is not destiny,” said Davis Jenkins, one of the...

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Peterson Quoted on Congress Not Cutting Government Deficits

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01/21/2016

... For six straight years, Americans watched their government' s borrowing shrink. Then last month, that trend towards ... 24 percent, to $544 billion, in this fiscal year. That' s up from...

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NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)

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02/04/2016

... to how the presidential nominating process will turn out from those three exercises in democracy hasn’t been ...

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New Mortgage Program Big Boost for Detroit Buyers (Clinton, Ford Foundations)

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02/19/2016

... program will offer traditional first and second mortgages from five banks that lend to home buyers in metro Detroit. ...

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Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)

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02/19/2016

Impact Investing' s Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation) I ... The event brought together a diverse panel of experts from the private and philanthropic sectors to discuss what ... impact...

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Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%

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03/04/2016

... group. UIA recently received $3.85 million in new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation and ...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas

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03/09/2016

... hospitals, the jury is out on the value ACOs derive from hospital participation. Commonwealth Fund–supported ...

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JPB Foundation Supports Best Practices, Models for Green Infrastructure in Underserved Communities

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03/10/2016

... in Underserved Communities Today, thought leaders from around the country are gathering to explore solutions to ...

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Rockefeller-founded Asia Society Marks 60 Years of Building Bridges Between the U.S. & Asia

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03/15/2016

... Society Marks 60 Years of Building Bridges Between the U. S . & Asia Asia Society will celebrate its 60th anniversary ... exhibitions and signature events across the Society' s global network that kick...