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Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers

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02/16/2016

Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers Gov. Andrew Cuomo voiced support Sunday for New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s call to close Rikers Island...

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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) that include hospitals in their networks to those that do not finds hospitals that are in urban...

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

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03/22/2016

... justice? I’ve asked my children this question from time to time, hoping they will give me an encouraging answer. ... you would do in another person’s shoes.” They pretend to listen. I will never forget telling...

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At Ford Event, de Blasio Says Cities Must Innovate Since Feds and State Won’t

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03/30/2016

... State Won’t Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday appeared to abandon any belief that higher levels of government have any interest in helping New York City grapple with income inequality. “In the ... of inequality...

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Carnegie President Says Humanitarians Can Have Impact on Refugee Crisis

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04/26/2016

... they had actually donated time or money in the past year to help refugees and many questioned their ability to make a real difference. Of those who have taken action, ... Gregorian, president of the Carnegie...

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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

... technology, and coordinating care outside office settings. To help uncover some of the day- to -day challenges primary care doctors face, Harvard Medical ... a variety of practice settings in the U.S. and the U...

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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

... are immigrants or have an immigrant parent are more likely to be liberal in their views on politics and immigration than ... with families who have been in United States longer, a new GenForward poll shows...

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs

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01/06/2017

... Could Cost 3 Million Jobs Congress has another reason not to roll back Obamacare too quickly: New research suggests that repealing two major provisions of ... 2019 alone, the report said. And these losses...

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Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green and Family Van Shares Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

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01/18/2017

... organizations go through many stages – from idea to execution to scaling impact. And it’s not always seamless! ... organizational gyrations. After the Philanthropy New York program, "...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies

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02/15/2017

Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies A new study finds that nearly one in four people who seek ... for eye problems have mild...

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How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later

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02/28/2017

... killings of unarmed people, including Eric Garner in New York City. The order aimed to have the Office of the Attorney General -- which Cuomo ... held from 2007 through 2010 -- bypass what many came to...

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Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

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04/03/2017

... third annual Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit in New York on April 3 and 4, celebrating ten years of a ... Changemakers, Common Purpose, and Independent Sector, to discuss best practices for advancing...

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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

... cocktail bar Coup–short for coup d’etat–opened in New York’s East Village in mid-April, promising to donate 100% of all profits to charities whose missions might be affected by the Trump ...

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Chef Massimo Bottura's First U.S. Project Will Be a Rockefeller-supported Bronx Soup Kitchen

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05/30/2017

... Bronx Soup Kitchen Massimo Bottura is coming to America — but not to open a restaurant. Eater reported last year that the chef ... called Refettorios, in the Bronx with support from New York’...

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Commonwealth Fund: What Might a Medicaid Work Requirement Mean?

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05/31/2017

... American Health Care Act (AHCA) likewise allows states to make having a job a requirement for gaining Medicaid ... assistance. These TANF policies condition federal funding to states on meeting work targets...

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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School

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06/01/2017

Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School Investor George Soros hit ... Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader’s attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros...

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... drops of coffee evaporate. In one paper, they learned how to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now, in a new paper published in Nature Communications, they have ... The formation of different phases...

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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... of billionaire philanthropists, myself included, tend to be of two minds: We like the idea that the wealthy are harnessing their fortunes to social good and we're excited by the prospect of lots of...

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Casey Family Programs Report Finds NYC ACS Leader in Child Safety Practices

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07/10/2017

... administration official David Hansell took the helm of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services ... which the NYC Department of Investigation attributed to inadequate staffing and technology...

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