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OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'

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08/13/2015

... and learning materials, such as textbooks, were delivered to schools in a timely manner. Monitoring teacher absenteeism ... that are being achieved in countries that have opted to take part in the Global...

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Gap Inc. Announces Commitment To Advance The Lives Of One Million Women

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09/28/2015

Gap Inc. Announces Commitment To Advance The Lives Of One Million Women Art Peck, chief ... today a significant Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action to advance the lives of one million...

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Ford, Citi and MasterCard Among Leaders to Commit Millions to Gender Equality

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09/28/2015

Ford, Citi and MasterCard Among Leaders to Commit Millions to Gender Equality New York Leading global companies and ... Women today. Achieving gender equality is fundamental to realizing the...

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State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care Organizations: Milbank Memorial Fund Support

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10/19/2015

A new report, “State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care ... on evidence from the literature and four case studies to outline tools that state governments can use to...

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National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project

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10/30/2015

... a new initiative in partnership with MetLife Foundation to help cities promote financial inclusion for their ... NLC received a $1 million grant from MetLife Foundation to implement an eight-city project,...

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Century Foundation Releases Proposals to Strengthen ACA

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12/15/2015

Century Foundation Releases Proposals to Strengthen ACA In just under six years, the Affordable ... facing a range of obstacles, from political opposition to widespread public misunderstanding. But while the ACA...

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NY Stem Cell Foundation: New Type of Stem Cell Found that Will Accelerate Discovery

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03/21/2016

... they maintain only one set of the genome, half, as opposed to the normal two sets. The research, published in Nature, ...

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Carnegie Backs New Learning Pilot Targeting Interstate Passport Initiative

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06/10/2016

... – just announced the formation of a new partnership to pilot a mapping process in support of the Interstate ... constant scrutiny, the goal of the Interstate Passport is to eliminate unnecessary repetition of...

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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09/30/2016

... Project, third-grade students who attended a five- to six-week summer program for at least twenty days in 2013 ...

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Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Featured in Study on Limited Life Foundations

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03/22/2017

... leaders of limited-life foundations say the opportunity to achieve greater impact is the key driver for the decision to spend down, a report from the Center for Effective ...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds that the GOP Health Care Act Would Reverse Gains Made by Community Hospitals

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05/05/2017

... for many of the nation’s poor, the law would begin to relieve community hospitals of the mounting cost of providing routine treatment to indigent patients in their emergency rooms. Uncompensated ... become a...

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Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution

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07/20/2017

Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution This past May, ... Italy. These forward-thinking changemakers came together to brainstorm how to accomplish an ambitious but...

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Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools

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08/29/2017

... Region's three major cities, school districts continue to see stubborn disparities between black and Hispanic ... students and their white and Asian peers when it comes to reading and math. The gap is...

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The Fall’s Most Fascinating Art Show? The Met Trying to Fix Itself

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09/06/2017

The Fall’s Most Fascinating Art Show? The Met Trying to Fix Itself There are many exciting museum shows to see across the country in coming months. But of particular interest to me will be the...

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors Rhea Wong never felt comfortable using elevator pitches and slide decks to raise money for Breakthrough New York, the college-success ... on how...

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‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism

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12/08/2017

... Understanding Racism Policies that create barriers to black achievement are often the result of 'white rage,' ... a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help Georgetown carry...

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Simons Investigators Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize, New Horizons Prize

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12/15/2017

... The award notes their “transformational contributions to birational algebraic geometry, especially to the minimal model program in all dimensions.” The ... 2018 New Horizons in Physics Prize for his...

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How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR

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05/04/2018

... Prudential Financial, urged small businesses and startups to inject corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their business operations to achieve their mission of turning their respective...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... scorecard on May 3 looking at each state’s ability to deliver medical care to its residents. The study broke down over 40 areas of health care from access, to the value of care Americans were...

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