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NYS Health Foundation Unveils Health Care Cost Transparency Website

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09/12/2017

... commonly performed health care services. The next phase of the site—expected in February 2018—will also include ... specific quality metrics for hospitals. The website is www.YouCanPlanForThis.org With out-...

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Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts

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09/13/2017

... card today meant to underscore deep worries that the world is in danger of backsliding on a broad range of international-development ... era of retrenchment by the U.S...

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

... The adage says it’s better to give than to receive. But is it really? The scientific evidence that generosity is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are obvious...

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How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India

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09/18/2017

How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India As of 2017, 1.3 billion people around the world do not have access to electricity...

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Long Delays Cloud Police Department Disciplinary Trials

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09/19/2017

... he has canceled three plane tickets to New York because of trial delays and watched a plea deal he saw as soft fall ... apart for reasons that remain mysterious to many of the people involved...

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Justice Reform

New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together

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09/19/2017

... Series on Neighbors Together Engage to Change comes out of discussions with organizations and a mapping process to catalog the varied modes of doing the work. Several years ago, we were struck by the .....

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How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them

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09/22/2017

... Work For Them Understanding the different giving habits of Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials. Individuals gave nearly $282 billion of the total $390 billion awarded to charities last year. The ... giving...

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Pound Foolish

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09/22/2017

... Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious ... food banks across the United States distribute millions of tons of...

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Food Systems

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender

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09/25/2017

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender Attacks on women and gender ... identity have been central to the policies coming out of the Trump White House. Whether it...

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Gender Justice

NY State Health: Medicare Snapshot - Stories from the Helpline - Improving New York State Access to Medicare Savings Programs

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09/26/2017

... New York State Access to Medicare Savings Programs Half of all New Yorkers with Medicare live on annual incomes of $24,150 or less. Given that Medicare beneficiaries are ... household incomes on health care,...

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How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers

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09/27/2017

How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers Obamacare repeal is dead, again. But the months of Republican attacks on the ... will still have consequences for some consumers. For now,...

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Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

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10/02/2017

Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next? When DeBoRah Dickerson ... was chronically homeless for several years as a result of family issues and poor health. She now has a home in East ... to the mismatch between the...

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Housing and Homelessness

Immigration Agents Arrest Hundreds in Sweep of Sanctuary Cities

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10/03/2017

Immigration Agents Arrest Hundreds in Sweep of Sanctuary Cities Federal agents arrested 498 people from 42 countries in a four-day nationwide operation ... focused on “sanctuary jurisdictions” where the agency...

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Immigration

Nonprofits Help Shift Mayor De Blasio's Opinion On Closing Rikers, Commission Leaders Say

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10/05/2017

... in less than a year – thanks in part to the efforts of nonprofits serving on the Independent Commission on New ... Justice and Incarceration Reform, and the persistence of its chairman, former state Court...

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Johnson & Johnson Brings Better Sanitation to Homes in India

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10/06/2017

... in India Johnson & Johnson's CaringCrowd's platform is dedicated to crowdfunding to improve global public health. ... will introduce sanitation facilities to improve the health of families with...

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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 ... stresses. The report was released on October 9, 2017, and is titled, “Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus: Addressing ... ways industrial...

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In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... sets, and found a new venue for the September 15 premiere of Describe the Night, a political saga set in Russia that ... the theater, the play opened on schedule at a University of Houston venue. The team...

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