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Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

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04/25/2017

... Year Long Island’s economy could have had an infusion of $24 billion in 2014 alone were it not for racial ... according to a report released Monday by the Urban League of Long Island. If such inequities were...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

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04/27/2017

... Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program The Schwartz ... engagement and the quality of compassionate care in ...

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JPMorgan Chase and NY Community Trust Partner to Bring Middle-Skills Jobs Training

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05/10/2017

... jobs for young people in the South Bronx. Part of JPMorgan Chase's five-year, $75 million New Skills for ... Bronx to New York City employers in three key sectors — health care, information technology,...

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The New York Community Trust

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Workforce Development

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Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries

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05/12/2017

Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out- of -Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries To inform ... at beneficiaries’ out- of -pocket costs by income and health status...

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The Peterson Center on Healthcare Aims to Transform U.S. Healthcare

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05/15/2017

... while lowering costs by bringing out the best in doctors, health systems, insurers, patients and employers. The center, ... 2014 with an initial $200 million gift by the foundation of Peter G. Peterson—who...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare

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A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others

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05/23/2017

A Pioneer Of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads The ... East Village in mid-April, promising to donate 100% of all profits to charities whose missions might be affected ... consulting firm in...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Report Amplifies Black Community Leadership in Improving Quality of Education

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05/26/2017

... Amplifies Black Community Leadership in Improving Quality of Education Although many African-American community leaders ... problem, many also are optimistic that the quality of education for African-American...

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Education

Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting

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06/05/2017

... emerging correspondents, including photographers. But most of those bureaus have closed, leaving emerging journalists on ... with a mission to support emerging journalists in pursuit of stories all over the...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Sloan Foundation Noted in Article on What Could Help Americans Work More Years

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06/13/2017

... on What Could Help Americans Work More Years Millions of American workers in their 50s and 60s want, or need, to keep working past the traditional retirement age of 65 — either part-time or full-time. But...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Aging

Workforce Development

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Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

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06/14/2017

... Rita Allen Foundation Does It Few foundations provide most of their annual giving to individuals. The bias of most funders in favor of organizational grantees reflects ... looking for...

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Science

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Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color

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06/21/2017

Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color By now it’s clear the Trump era will be cruel to ... proposed draconian cuts to the nation’s most effective health , nutrition, education, and...

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Gender Justice

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Commonwealth Fund: In the Healthcare Aftermath

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08/02/2017

... covering the uninsured and constraining our extraordinary health care costs will require bipartisan support. The ... Congress and administration — perhaps after a period of rest and reflection — can return to...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... This Study Finds against the Myth In the category of research that doesn’t tell any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new ... Review. The study examined 998 nonprofits in the arts,...

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US States Embrace Baby Boxes

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09/08/2017

... Boxes Several states are adopting the Finnish practice of distributing “baby boxes” to expectant parents—and ... families about safe sleep for infants. Finland has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says More than 40 percent of the city’s middle and high school students are not ... been in decline for four years, according to the city'...

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Education

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

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09/18/2017

... Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India As of 2017, 1.3 billion people around the world do not have ... basic needs such as clean water, securing food, access to...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees

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09/19/2017

Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees Trump administration officials, under pressure ... White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the...

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Immigration

Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down

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09/20/2017

... Jobs, Rising Wages, Broader Advances: Seven Indicators of New York’s Economic Health .” The Census Bureau found that real median family ... the Great Recession. The 2016 median family income level of...

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Economic Security

Gates Foundation Pledges $220 Million for Women, Children, Adolescents

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09/22/2017

... has announced commitments totaling $220 million in support of efforts to empower women and save the lives of thirty-eight million women, children, and adolescents by ... Child initiative, launched in 2010 to...

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