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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

... is failing patients with complex medical needs, many of whom struggle to access the coordinated medical, ... brief from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Based on a survey of more than three thousand adults, the...

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Health

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness

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03/03/2017

... significant gains have been made in this area. In the United States, for example, the Foundation Fighting ... affect more than 10 million Americans. Worldwide, a range of efforts have sought to bring poor...

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Health

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Ford Foundation Supports 'Stay Midtown Program' to Respond to Recent Rental Cost Increases in Detroit

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03/22/2017

... The Stay Midtown program is one tangible example of how these recommendations can be implemented. Launched ... in Midtown and to address a near-term housing supply gap as nearly 2,600 housing units are...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis

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05/24/2017

... Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis The Syrian conflict is now in its seventh year. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the ... million...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... Women The Army has sought to play down the significance of the mixed-gender milestone. But female grunts see it as monumental and revolutionary. The first group of women graduated from...

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Gender Justice

Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

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06/07/2017

... Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted In 2015, the United Nations laid out its Sustainable Development Goals to ... organization to increase the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. . . Ford, John...

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education On Tuesday nights beginning August 22 ... Weekend Anchor Hari Sreenivasan traveled throughout the United...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Education

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Supports Exhibition of Contemporary Women Abstractionists

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08/25/2017

... Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Supports Exhibition of Contemporary Women Abstractionists The Andy Warhol ... the work of seven artists who hail from across the United States. The works...

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Arts

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Audacious Philanthropy

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08/29/2017

... Private philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the ... reduced-price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United States...

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A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

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09/06/2017

... to a nonprofit that helps Muslims with disabilities. Out of Michigan, an activist network pushes Muslims across the ... leaders. Those three projects emerged in recent years as part of a boom...

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Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?

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09/08/2017

Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector? How policy labs can foster greater ... creative approaches to policymaking. Since the inception of the first labs over a decade ago...

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Public Policy

LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

... was launched on 12 September 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) ... We are proud to see it enter into the operational phase...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Pound Foolish

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious ... in need. Today, more than 200 food banks across the United States distribute millions...

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Food Systems

The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy

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09/27/2017

The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy There’s been no shortage of ... that still color some of our deepest beliefs about the United...

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Health

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Our Compelling Interests

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... Interests In his essay for the first installment of the Mellon Foundation’s Our Compelling Interests book ... author William H. Frey stated, “I am convinced that the United States is in the midst of...

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... Robot Will Not Steal Your Job The recovery from the crisis of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so ... lows last seen in 1975 in Britain and 1994 in Japan. The...

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Workforce Development

Pfizer Foundation Fights Hunger and Supports the UN Global Goals at SXSW

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03/27/2018

... last week, Pfizer and Rise Against Hunger engaged hundreds of volunteers at the SXSW Trade Show to package meals for ... had been prepared. At Pfizer, we recognize the importance of achieving each of...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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International/Foreign Affairs

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William Randolph Hearst Foundations Provides Hefty Grant to SOPAC to Partner with School District

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04/26/2018

... two nonprofits that work together to “ensure that people of all backgrounds in the United States have the opportunity to build healthy, ... and the courses will culminate in a performance at the end of...

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William Randolph Hearst Foundation

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Arts

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The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Study Shows Museum Field Trips Impact Learning

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09/28/2018

... to an art museum have a measurable impact on key aspects of student learning. The comprehensive study, conducted over ... facilitated experiences at six art museums across the United States: Columbus Museum...

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