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Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows

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10/02/2017

... haunts the vast majority of Americans over age 50. More than three-quarters (78 percent) of future retirees in ... all these people think the current situation is just fine. More than four in five future...

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Economic Security

Opinion: Take a Resistance Break

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10/04/2017

... any sign of approval or support. Instead, we saw something more powerful. Three of the restaurant’s busboys paused ... Their fists were raised in silence. Their dignity was more powerful than any lever a...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria

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10/05/2017

... show promise in battling malaria, a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, mostly children ages five ... new strategies involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria parasites,...

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Despite Washington Drama, Pace of Health System Change Accelerates

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10/06/2017

... people healthy. And how do you keep people healthy? To use more jargon, you address the “social determinants of ... and health insurance than you may think—and a lot more to do with addressing barriers that...

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Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.

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10/10/2017

... crossing the river by car here can take up to 10 minutes more . Local officials had the federal and state money in ... fate. In November, voters statewide will face a more expansive question — whether to amend...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... in CSR and the firm performs poorly, they are much more likely to be dismissed," Hubbard says. "On the other ... they'll buffer you from dismissal, do poorly and you're more likely lose...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

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10/13/2017

... of families who want spots in its community garden, but more of those aspiring harvesters might be tending fresh ... after the storm, access to fresh, healthy foods only got more limited when some retailers...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund

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10/27/2017

... $32 million in seed funding from JDRF, the fund manages more than $60 million and has invested more than $10 million to date in seven companies focused on ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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The Commonwealth Fund Supports Tool to Encourage Patient Contribution to Clinical Notes

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12/08/2017

... access to their clinicians’ visit notes. Currently, more than 20 million patients across the country have ... only by medical professionals — may help patients feel more involved with their own care and...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth

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01/23/2018

... recent changes to the U.S. corporate tax system and a more constructive regulatory and business environment. ... inclusive economic growth and help create opportunity for more Americans. The $20 billion...

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers

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02/02/2018

... tumors. Together, these findings could lead to new ways to more effectively screen for and ultimately prevent colon cancer, a disease that kills more than 50,000 people each year in the U.S. and is on the ...

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How Salesforce is Innovating Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Giving

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03/09/2018

... is leading Silicon Valley’s charge toward more integrated models of corporate philanthropy. This ... relationship management products to make employee giving more personalized, networked, and generally...

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Eight Programs Receive Grants for Equitable Bike Share and Related Research Funded by the JPB Foundation

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03/12/2018

... Foundation The Better Bike Share Partnership has awarded more than $410,000 in grants to help increase access to bike ... practices and support to make bicycling and bike share more accessible and available to...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Community Development

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National Grid Supports United Way Family Fund to Help Families in Need

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03/30/2018

... Family Fund remains as relevant now as ever, maybe even more so. The National Grid Foundation has been a steadfast ... need. Last year alone, United Way’s Family Fund helped more than 30,100 households...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

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JPMorgan Chase Releases 2017 Corporate Responsibility Report

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04/26/2018

... a pressing need to expand access to opportunity and help more people move up the economic ladder. Through our proven ... applying its model for driving inclusive growth to help more people climb the economic...

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Civic Engagement

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The JPB Foundation Supports Creation of ParkServe Database

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05/01/2018

... for 14,000 cities with a combined population of more than 260 million. The national nonprofit organization is ... walk of every American, a goal which has been endorsed by more than 200 U.S. mayors. The...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Commonwealth Fund Releases Its 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance

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05/29/2018

... assesses all 50 states and the District of Columbia on more than 40 measures of access to health care, quality of ... are common. Still, on balance, the Scorecard finds more improvement than decline between...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Donates $50 million to Fight Opioid Epidemic

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11/30/2018

... Bloomberg’s charity said CDC data shows there were more than 70,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths last year, including more than 47,000 from opioids, the highest numbers on record. ...

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Human Services

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Century Foundation Releases New Report: Finding Workers Where They Are

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02/07/2019

... brag—union members earn significantly higher wages, have more job stability, and better access to critical health and ... hard-fought initiatives seeking to unionize the workplace more broadly in the private...

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