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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

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07/06/2017

... Scott Duke Kominers, and their collaborators are hoping to transform the way scientists study urban environments - ... authored a study that uses computer vision algorithms to examine millions of Google Street...

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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism Sometimes it’s the ... building program. Or Heron’s unparalleled commitment to impact investing. Or Wallace Global Fund’s...

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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

... Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. He hopes ... newly released ex-offenders at his 2AM Bakery is designed to give...

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American Express Grant Supports Student Filmmaking

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08/11/2017

... Student Filmmaking American Express grant of $100,000 to Reel Works supports filmmaking aimed to inspire a younger and more diverse audience to explore ... field and at national parks. The...

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Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues

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08/16/2017

... for Climate Issues As climate change pushes U.S. cities to build protections against stronger storms and more ... some of the risk of innovative projects from cities to investors. The foundation, established...

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Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion

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08/21/2017

... of the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, discusses how the credit-card company is utilizing resources and expertise from across its operations to address income inequality "through the lens of...

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

... general public's help is being enlisted in what's thought to be the biggest study of the human microbiome—the ... that live in and on the human body –and are believed to affect health. The Microbiome...

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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

... using data from the federal Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how states’ participation in the Medicaid expansion ... affected families’ health care spending. Compared to families in...

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CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market

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08/28/2017

... started by Northwell Health, has asked state permission to withdraw from the individual and small group market, the latest evidence of how hard it can be for new companies to compete with...

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Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis

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08/29/2017

Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis Repairing the ... and taking the path of least resistance. This isn’t how it’s always been in our city. When the city...

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Ordering Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot

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08/31/2017

... Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot Elected to lead the biggest city in the nation, Mayor Bill de Blasio often seems to hunger for a brighter spotlight. He tried to shape the .....

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NY State Health Foundation Report: FQHC Utilization of State & Federal Loan & Scholarship Programs to Support Clinician Recruitment

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08/31/2017

... Utilization of State & Federal Loan &Scholarship Programs to Support Clinician Recruitment This NYSHealth-supported ... provide comprehensive primary and preventive care services to all individuals,...

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Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... thinking about, however, was whether I would be able to juggle my job as CEO of Challah for Hunger, a Philadelphia ... that provides paid parental or family leave. Given how good paid leave is for children,...

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Here's What's In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill

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09/14/2017

... care fight sure seemed dead. After Republican proposals to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, failed to pass a Republican-controlled Congress, lawmakers looked ... (Meanwhile, some...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace According to a new study coauthored by two Washington, D.C. nonprofit ... gap, far from narrowing, will grow ever wider in the years to come, absent policy change...

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Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers

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09/18/2017

... of an opioid epidemic, many insurers are limiting access to pain medications that carry a lower risk of addiction or ... dependence, even as they provide comparatively easy access to generic opioid medications...

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J.J. Watt's Hurricane Relief Fundraising Closes at More Than $37 Million

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09/18/2017

... Million It started as a relatively modest (well, relative to where it ended up) organizing of a charitable endeavor, ... and partially out of desperation when he couldn't be there to help in person. And...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists ... into a giant...

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Twenty Years After Suffragists Statue Victory, The Quest Continues For A National Women's History Museum

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09/20/2017

... and a group of women had been pushing members of Congress to move the statue, formally called the Portrait Monument. It had been donated to the country by the National Women's Party in February ... of...

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