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Atlantic Philanthropies Funds Camden Coalition to Establish National Healthcare Center

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03/09/2016

The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a national center, funded by $8.7 million from AARP, The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Commentary from Rockefeller Foundation: A Solution to Hunger? Stop Throwing Dinner Away

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03/15/2016

... undernourished people on the planet today. While hunger is the most visible part of this quiet global crisis, it is certainly not the only impact. . . Commentary from ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping

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03/29/2016

... outweigh the short-term costs associated with it, systems scientist Robert Jeffers said. The city and region ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Seeking Medicaid Coverage for Inmates, With Help from New York Community Trust

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04/01/2016

Many prisoners end up falling through the cracks of the health system upon their release from jail. But a state program designed to link inmates to health care providers in the community has motivated legislators to seek new exceptions to the rules.

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Sloan Public Service Awards Honor Seven NYC Employees

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06/03/2016

... Buckner, the Director of Pharmacy at Gouverneur Health, is an invaluable resource for doctors and patients. For many ... and disseminate complex drug-related issues for all of us is simply tremendous,” says...

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

... show that, when controlling for family wealth, there is no significant evidence of a causal relationship between ... students who don’t necessarily need it. “This is a preference that preferences the already...

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Commonwealth Fund, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and John A. Hartford Foundations Combine Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs

Release Date:

07/29/2016

... and costly health and social care needs and because it is disproportionately affected by poor quality care. What's more, the need is urgent, they argue, because the number of such patients, many of them...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare

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Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City

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08/19/2016

Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City About 127,000 ... than the total population of Boston and Seattle’s school systems combined. The effect of housing instability and...

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Housing and Homelessness

How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later

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02/28/2017

How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later About 19 months ago, Governor ... justice system... How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later .....

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Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many States On Healthcare Scorecard

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03/16/2017

The Affordable Care Act has led to better healthcare outcomes nationwide and states like New Jersey that chose to embrace the federal law have seen greater improvements than those that did not, according to a national ranking released Thursday.

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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School

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06/01/2017

Investor George Soros hit back Thursday against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader’s attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros founded after the fall of communism.

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Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training

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06/13/2017

... the administration and Congress to work together if it is to be enacted later this year. Whatever the contours of ... low unemployment rate, currently at 4.3 percent, is a misleading snapshot. Research shows...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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2017 Macy Faculty Scholars Named

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06/27/2017

... education and practice, health equity and health systems science. “I am extremely proud of this, our ...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

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07/20/2017

... Wins Euromoney Award One in four people in the world is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the system of ...

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Economic Security

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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

... the Microbiome Immunity Project The general public's help is being enlisted in what's thought to be the biggest study ... to affect health. The Microbiome Immunity Project is a new, IBM-facilitated (...

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Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... strategies to deal with their pain. But such a program is not for everyone. Insurers might say that the intensive, interdisciplinary approach is not medically necessary and decline to cover these ...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Sixty Days Into MTA's 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To Review Plans

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08/30/2017

Sixty days ago Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan and announced a top-to-bottom review of the calcified organization that runs the subway system.

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Community Development

Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas

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08/29/2017

... the region tens of billions of dollars, but private aid is helping many nonprofits deal with the initial relief ...

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Commonwealth Fund: How the Affordable Care Act Has Helped Women Gain Insurance and Improved Their Ability to Get Health Care

Release Date:

08/31/2017

Prior to the Affordable Care Act, one-third of women who tried to buy a health plan on their own were either turned down, charged a higher premium because of their health, or had specific health problems excluded from their plans. Beginning in 2010...

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Gender Justice