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NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)

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02/04/2016

... Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund) This issue of The NonProfit Times started hitting the postal stream just as the good people of Iowa were caucusing and the outcome was still in doubt...

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Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls

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02/05/2016

Ms. Foundation CEO puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls Teresa Younger has been renewing the ... about feminism since becoming president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women 18 months ago. She has ... was...

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation) ... a proven educational innovation: school integration. A new report from The...

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Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%

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03/04/2016

... to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20% An alliance made up of 11 major universities across the United States has knocked its goal of graduating more students — including more low-income ... in the group. UIA...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art

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03/07/2016

... Restrictions on Art Museum-goers tend to be unaware of the vast network of copyright protections that underlie images of much of ... experiments over the last year, it has...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Arts

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WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA

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03/08/2016

... what many private surveys have shown: that the proportion of Americans under 65 who lack health insurance has plummeted ... fewer Americans were uninsured in the first nine months of 2015 than in 2010. The...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas

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03/09/2016

... Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas A new study comparing accountable care organizations (ACOs) ... areas, are nonprofit, or have a relatively small share of Medicare patients are more likely to...

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IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)

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03/11/2016

IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation) ... a national consortium, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, to improve the teaching .....

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Century Foundation Report Recommends Universal Child Allowance

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03/17/2016

... with more than 12 million American children—16.5 percent of all children—currently living in poverty. But according to new research out today from TCF’s Bernard L. Schwartz ... scenarios, and reveals: A...

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Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post

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03/22/2016

... home and often say things like: “There is no such thing as good guys and bad guys. All people do good and bad things, ... asked, “Is Britain another planet?” Norway might as well be another galaxy, considering...

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Arcus Foundation Report Reveals Trans Discrimination Not Limited to Bathrooms

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05/13/2016

... space that presents a distinct challenge to the hundreds of thousands of people nationwide trying to live authentically in their true gender. A new report reveals transgender women and all...

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Commonwealth Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine?

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05/26/2016

... Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine? About one-third of U.S. and U.K. primary care physicians are dissatisfied ... care outside office settings. To help uncover some of the day-to-day challenges primary...

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

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07/29/2016

... Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs A coalition of five national health foundations has announced the launch of a collaboration aimed at transforming care delivery for ... ill patients with the...

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Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year

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08/11/2016

... Beat Youth Homelessness This Year For most kids, the end of summer means back-to-school shopping and hanging up swimsuits in exchange for new textbooks and class schedules. But for the 2.5 ... in regularly or...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

... organization that is not only guided by principles of social justice, and working to address real societal ... problems, but one that is committed to investing in new ways of building...

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Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children

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09/07/2016

... for Poor Children During their long, languid summers, lots of children forget the lessons they learned in school. But ... have time or money for camps or enrichment activities. Now new research suggests that...

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Ford and MacArthur-Backed Survey Finds That Young Voters From Newer Immigrant Families Lean More Liberal

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09/09/2016

... with families who have been in United States longer, a new GenForward poll shows. Eighty-seven percent of those age 18 to 30 who are immigrants or who have parents ... those who were brought to the United...

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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Ms. Foundation for Women Will Join SheKnows Media for the Sept. 26 Panel on Next-Generation #Femvertising

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09/21/2016

... fans and followers, today announced that it will reveal new , proprietary research on #Femvertising during its Sept. ... #Femvertising: Ever-More Authentic Portrayals of Humans.” The survey, fielded online in...

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Gender Justice

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... tell scientists on Earth? The world is about to find out as experts are currently analyzing fungi grown from microbe ... an investigation designed to look into different kinds of microbes collected from the...

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