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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U. S . Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients The U. S . healthcare system is failing patients with complex medical ... and avoid costly hospital visits, an issue brief ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

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01/04/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In ... they saw preventing everyone who lives in Crown Heights from thriving. Last, suspending skepticism, they imagined new...

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Community Development

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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

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01/12/2017

... Wikimedia Foundation has announced a $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely ...

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The Wallace Foundation Supports Creative Ways to Expand the Taste for Classical Music in NYC Eateries

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01/17/2017

... young crowd filed onto benches in Mast Chocolate' s factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They drank wine and ate ... a 32-piece orchestra sounded the opening notes of Verdi' s "Macbeth,"...

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

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01/18/2017

... Conference On Monday, February 6, Robin Hood , New York' s largest poverty-fighting organization, and the Russell Sage Foundation , the nation' s premier foundation devoted to social science research...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Purpose-Driven Investing Highlighted by Forbes

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01/27/2017

Rockefeller Brothers Fund' s Purpose-Driven Investment Highlighted by Forbes ... of age and now make up the largest percentage of the U. S . population - which means they are set to make up an ... Brothers...

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Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma

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01/31/2017

Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’ s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma Angel' s Story looks at the early success of a home-visit program at ... underlying causes of poor health in Texas. ANGEL...

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

... Refugees With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where ... the end of last year, Soros declared that the world' s “collective failure” to help the...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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New York Community Trust Weighs in on Distribution of Post-Trump Donations to Nonprofits

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02/06/2017

... that many of them have received unsolicited offers from many residents who want to volunteer and get ...

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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

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02/08/2017

... Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens A 17-year-old from Bellerose, New York has taken volunteering to a new ... by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards . Dimple' s project, which featured...

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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

... feminist politics in the age of trans-identity, on view from February 9 through May 19, 2017. Featuring the work of ...

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Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources

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03/10/2017

... NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources Lawmakers from Hungary' s governing Fidesz party likely will submit new legislation ... Society Foundations and its founder, Hungarian-born U. S...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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NY Community Trust Mentioned in City Lab Article About Advocacy Groups Assisting Refugees

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03/13/2017

... infusion of resources following the Trump administration’ s announcement, earlier this month, of a four-month ... refugee admissions. (After the suspension is lifted, the U. S . will allow about half as many...

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The New York Community Trust

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ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide

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03/16/2017

... Certification Guide The ASPCA and Vermont Law School’ s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) are ... a look at the experiences of welfare-certified farmers from across the country. Finally, the guide...

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Supported by Rockefeller, $10 Million Water Window Challenge Announces Winners

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03/17/2017

... to address recurring flood problems in some of the world’ s most vulnerable communities. The challenge, a partnership ... dozen groups working to provide innovative solutions — from flood-resilient roads to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor' s Office in a Quest for Better Health Aetna recently ... Healthy Communities grant program. The grants are from $50,000 to $100,000 and come out of the $2 million...

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Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research

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03/21/2017

... has announced a £20 million ($24.5 million) grant from the Simons Foundation in support of pioneering ... for the Developing Brain will be based at the university' s Patrick Wild Centre for Research into...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Promotes 'Changing Faces of Immigration' Video Series

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03/24/2017

... group is a mosaic and not a monolith. People are arriving from dozens of countries in Asia and the Pacific Islands, ... of all eligible Asians and Pacific Islanders have become U. S . citizens. This represents...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival

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03/28/2017

... it is sending a few of its affiliated poets to the film’ s showing in Princeton. “It seemed like a natural fit for ... explained Martin Farawell, director of the foundation’ s poetry program, which since 1986...

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