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NYS Health Foundation on the Learning and Listening That Lead to a Multi-Funder Collaboration

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06/30/2016

... leaves many of them shut out of health coverage. For the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), it also ... represents a blow to our efforts to connect undocumented New Yorkers to coverage. While many...

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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health

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08/23/2016

... Last week the World Health Organization announced a new partner in its effort to combat noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, which — ... percent of deaths worldwide...

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

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10/07/2016

... Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer wants to force ... the nation’s largest city, according to research by the New School’s Schwartz Center for...

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Economic Security

Bank of America to Spur Economic Gains For Low-Income Families, Communities

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03/16/2017

... skills required to compete for middle-class jobs. As part of a broad effort to connect low-income residents to new economic opportunities, LISC is working with Bank of ...

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NY State Health Releases Policy Recommendations to Address Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems in NY State

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06/12/2017

... This NYSHealth-supported white paper, prepared by the New York State Public Health Association (NYSPHA), outlines ... Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), otherwise known as e-cigarettes, vapes, and other similar...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

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07/25/2017

... Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s...

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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

... Lightship Ambrose, which is currently docked at Pier 16, as part of the Museum’s collection of five historic vessels. Built in 1907, Lightship LV-87, as the ship is officially known, served as...

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Opinion: The Urban Revival Is Over

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09/05/2017

... America over the past decade or two may be in danger. As it turns out, the much-ballyhooed new age of the city might be giving way to a great urban ... white flight. Unlike their parents and grandparents,...

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As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and Communities

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09/12/2017

As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’s Executive Order Jeopardizes ... intent of President Donald Trump’s news conference in New York last month— the one in which he made his ... the consequences and taxpayers will pick up...

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Environment and Climate Change

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library

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09/14/2017

... $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library Last year, the New York Public Library released plans for a total renovation ... to pay for that makeover, which will also come with a new name. The donation, which the...

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City Council Examines Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts

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09/19/2017

... Committee held an oversight hearing on Monday dedicated to New York’s Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, a program ... of the legal system on victims of domestic violence, as well as their...

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

... pitches and slide decks to raise money for Breakthrough New York, the college-success program she leads. Instead she has turned to Jeffersonian dinners as a way to engage new supporters. The...

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Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’s Far West Side

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09/22/2017

... West Side of Manhattan and create more than 2,000 jobs in New York City. The retail giant signed a 15-year lease to ... that is part of Brookfield Property Partners L.P.'s new eight-acre development,...

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De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.

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09/26/2017

... for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow. Even as New York City’s schools opened their doors for the new year this month, the clock was ticking on the future of ...

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Education

Disparities in Health of NYC Latino Populations

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09/28/2017

... Populations Latinos, who make up nearly a third of the New York City population, tend to have better health outcomes ... compared with other city residents, according to a new report released Wednesday from...

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

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10/05/2017

... Opinion On Closing Rikers, Commission Leaders Say New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s opinion about whether ... the mayor’s original position on closing Rikers as being “equivocal” at best in late 2016 when...

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... advocacy effort to make the Certificate of Need process in New York State more consumer-friendly and transparent, so ... to spread OpenNotes adoption at hospitals throughout New York State, giving patients...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth

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01/23/2018

... regulatory and business environment. Through this new investment, the firm will develop hundreds of new branches in several new U.S. markets, increase wages and benefits for hourly U.S. ...

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Community Art to Keep NYC on the Cultural Edge

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03/27/2018

... on the Cultural Edge Scheduled to open at Hudson Yards in New York City in the spring of 2019, the Shed received a $75 ... who made his fortune in, ironically enough, Los Angeles. As the larger visual arts...

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