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Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns

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09/21/2017

... announced earlier this month it would be buying Fidelis, a New York health insurance company affiliated with the ... sale — the departments of financial services and health as well as...

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Gender Justice

Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap

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09/25/2017

... No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap Last week, the New York Times Editorial Board ran an editorial discussing ... of the Senate. Indeed, the United States champions itself as a beacon of democracy, yet nearly a...

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Opinion: Construction Safety Bill Would Hurt Minority Workers

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09/26/2017

... – and I can tell you why we oppose Intro 1447-C, even as it stands on the verge of City Council approval. Some ... construction leaders and advocacy groups like the NAACP New York State and One Hundred Black...

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Workforce Development

U.S. Quietly Announces Plan To Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Accounts, Search Histories

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09/28/2017

... accounts and internet search history of legal immigrants as part of a new tracking system set to roll out next month. The policy ... last week. It’s an update to the Alien File, also known as...

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Immigration

Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

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10/05/2017

... Requests Over Past 3 Years At the start of December 2014, New York Post reporter Susan Edelman sent an intriguing ... defended his education agenda publicly, and served as an “informal advisor” on school...

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The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

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10/06/2017

... of origin. This number is even higher in 2017, with the New York Times reporting that 36 percent of all refugees ... by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) and New York University Law School’s...

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Immigration

Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”

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12/20/2017

... ideas to find workable solutions to complex problems, such as how to effectively train and support public school ... , but also, by generating knowledge, to benefit fields as a whole, he says. A focus on...

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Watch Another Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations

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01/22/2018

... WNYC , correspondent Matt Katz has the story of how new American policies are creating uncertainty for a married ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Immigration

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Jerome Foundation Announces Inaugural Organization Grant Recipients

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06/18/2018

... in grants to 84 arts organizations in Minnesota and New York City. These grants to nonprofit arts organizations ... comprise inaugural offering of the foundation’s new Organization Grants Program. The two-...

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Arts

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5.4 Million to Help Standardize Clinical Data

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09/04/2018

... The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust in New York City has announced a $5.4 million grant to the ... Benefitting both the T1D and CD communities, the new standards will enable research centers to...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports Launch Plant Humanities Initiative

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10/05/2018

... Plants Initiative, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR propose a new model of integrating digital humanities with scholarly ... by the insights and needs of teachers and students as well as librarians...

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Goldman Sachs Brings 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative to Detroit

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12/01/2013

... in downtown Detroit, and the Detroit Development Fund , which will direct its lending to small businesses ...

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Community Development

How Should Philanthropies Respond to Emergencies?

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05/13/2014

... city’s retirees will be voting on the bankruptcy plan. As this date nears and more and more retiree groups support ...

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The Importance of Criticizing Philanthropy

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05/12/2014

... a 40-year-old former Enron natural-gas trader and hedge- fund founder who, with his wife, ranked third on the 2013 ... regarding his partisan sympathies (smeared, for instance, as a “right-wing ideologue,”...

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Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks and Autism Science Foundation launch Autism BrainNet registration site

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05/16/2014

The Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks and the Autism Science Foundation today announced the launch of the Autism BrainNet registration site, It Takes Brains ( www.takesbrains.org ). Autism BrainNet is a consortium of academic sites funded...

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The Value of Rigorous Evaluation

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06/02/2014

... that the program I’m supporting or running is not as effective as I believe it is?”... The Value of Rigorous Evaluation ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Group of 11 Leading Philanthropies Announce Steps to Expand Opportunities for Young Men of Color

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06/05/2014

[The Atlantic Philanthropies, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Open Society Foundations] Eleven of the nation’s leading philanthropies have announced a bold plan of action to maximize the potential of the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

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19 States May Be Violating Laws Requiring Them To Assist Consumers With Health Care Choices

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06/25/2014

... Consumers With Health Care Choices A Commonwealth Fund analysis finds that 19 states may be in violation of ...

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Americans' Wait Time To See Doctors Is Longer Than in Many Other Countries

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07/05/2014

... the United States toward to the bottom in a Commonwealth Fund study of wait times for treatment in 11 countries. ... more financially lucrative for hospitals and doctors, such as knee-replacements, M.R.I.s or...

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