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Women on the Front Lines of ACA Implementation

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03/28/2014

by Ellen Liu , Director , Women’s Health, Ms. Foundation for Women Women ... lessons about successful advocacy and outreach strategies. First , we have learned that we must engage at multiple levels ... for...

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Bloomberg Spins Off Group That Spurs Volunteerism in Cities

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01/30/2014

... group, Cities of Service, will be led by one of the former New York City mayor’s government employees and is the ... that Mr. Bloomberg has started since leaving office. The first , Bloomberg Associates, is a...

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Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens

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03/13/2014

... feedback on their Change AGEnts Initiative. When I was first hired at the John A. Hartford Foundation, I gave one of ... the then-Senior Program Officers a giant cup filled with new red pens. It seemed to me...

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Carnegie VP of Education Profiled in Huffington Post

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02/26/2015

... Post "When I transitioned into education at the New York City Department of Education, the first thing that struck me was how critically important .....

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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research

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04/10/2015

... that initiates glaucoma. His goal is to understand the first targets of the disease - the cells most susceptible to the disease - and help devise new prevention and therapy. At the present time, treatment ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Research Makes Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

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05/07/2015

... May 6, 2015 in Nature, the scientists report using these new stem cells to develop the first reliable method for integrating human stem cells into ...

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Newman's Own Foundation Launches Fellowship Program

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08/04/2015

... Program Newman's Own Foundation announced its first formal class of Fellows. The innovative Newman's Own ... designed to expand, enhance, and diversify the pipeline of new talent entering nonprofit...

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North Star's Hogan Calls for de Blasio to Give Acitivists a Bigger Role in Policymaking

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08/14/2015

... they understand what moves voters to act. Here in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has regularly spoken ... connected to the grassroots. Last April, to mark his first 100 days in office, de Blasio offered...

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Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Creating Effective School Principals

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10/07/2015

... Report on Creating Effective School Principals A new report commissioned by the Wallace Foundation has ... for public schools. According to the report, it is the first study of its kind to examine how state...

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Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance

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03/30/2016

... Insurance Unemployment insurance (UI) is America's first responder to economic distress. But according to Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance, a new report by TCF senior fellow Andrew Stettner...

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American Express, Ford Foundation Provide Funds to Restore Hemingway's Famed Cuban Home

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04/15/2016

... Dupont and his team will aid in the construction of a new archival storage facility at Finca Vigía, or "Lookout ... Francisco de Paula, Cuba. Once completed, it will be the first building in Cuba...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Poll Finds Broad Support For Clean Power Plan

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04/28/2016

... representatives of 175 nations at the United Nations in New York, and after a divided U.S. Supreme Court temporarily ... the U.S. Government's signature plan to place the nation's first -ever limits...

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Rockefeller Foundation Spearheads Resilience Strategy in Colorado

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04/29/2016

... natural disasters and challenges. The city unveiled its first -ever resilience strategy Thursday. The document ... and low-income people. The resilience strategy is a new approach to city planning spearheaded...

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Doris Duke Study Finds Promoting Abstinence, Fidelity for HIV Prevention Is Ineffective

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05/03/2016

... sexual behavior and reducing HIV risk, according to a new Stanford University School of Medicine study. Since ... to limit their number of sexual partners and delay their first sexual experience and, in the...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Report on Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration

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05/12/2016

... Since 2010, when the Milbank Memorial Fund published its first behavioral health integration (BHI) report, “Evolving ... with mental illness or substance abuse disorders. This new report joins our growing...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Contributes Funds for Online Tool to Reveal Commercial Fishing Activity Worldwide

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09/15/2016

... today launched the public Beta of Global Fishing Watch, a new online technology platform that allows anyone in the ... fishing vessels in near real-time. By providing the first free global view of commercial...

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

... Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers As a first -of-its-kind human-digital platform, eKutir Global, a ... Inclusive Innovation Competition (IIC) under the ‘ new models’ category, has reached 70,000...

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Caroline Anstey Named COO of the Open Society Foundations

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04/21/2017

... of chief operations officer starting June 2017. As the first to serve in this newly created position, Anstey will ... real estate and facilities, and security. Based in the New York office, she will report to...

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With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up

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08/28/2017

... are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals—a new science building, teacher training, diversifying the ... initially appear to be a bit more, well, abstract. The first comes to us from Providence, Rhode...

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