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Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients

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02/24/2016

... nurses, and other clinicians can prompt patients to be more active in their own health and healthcare, and greater ... promise for engaging them in their own care. For example, more than two-thirds of patients...

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JPMorgan Chase Report: Tech Jobs for All? Exploring the Promise & Pitfalls of U.S. Tech Training

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03/09/2016

... programs and their role and value in workforce development more generally. This report examines the reasons for the ... meet market demand and look to the future of tech training more generally. Interest in...

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United Hospital Fund's Jim Tallon to Step Down in Second Half of 2017

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06/23/2016

... I hand the reins over to a successor, there are many more UHF accomplishments I hope we will have achieved.” ... to build on Jim’s and UHF’s impressive work to build a more effective health care system for...

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The Systematic Starvation of Those Who Do Good

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02/28/2017

... in New York employ nearly 1.3 million people, representing more than 18 percent of all private employment in the state. ... intractable and politically unappealing problems—employ more than 200,000 people. Yet...

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Rona Sheramy Appointed Executive Director of the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women

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03/01/2017

... and honored to join JFEW, an organization dedicated for more than a century to women’s education and economic ... strengthen their families and communities - could not be more relevant than in our society...

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Aetna Joins Corporate Effort to Save Hartford Financial and Psychological Slump

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03/15/2017

... living in poverty not far from ultra-wealthy communities. More immediately, Hartford's fiscal problems have lately reached a crisis level, as more than half of the city's property is non-taxable, and...

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Gates Foundation Releases New Virtual Reality Game to Highlight Life-Saving Innovations

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04/13/2017

... on Gates’ personal blog, Gates Notes. But it’s much more than a game, of course. This is the benefactor who ... drank purified poop water —all to make some larger point more memorable. The basic goal may be to...

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Indian Child Welfare at Casey Family Programs is Highlight for Native American Students in Crisis

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08/02/2017

... the roof. Ear buds dangle from one girl’s left ear. Two more students whisper, sharing a joke. Still another student, ... it. Here in the Jefferson County 509J School District, more than a third of all Native...

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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... of the nation’s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states – to ... by providing elementary school educators with access to more than 1,000 high quality math...

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Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults

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09/15/2017

... over the two periods, the greatest rise in any age group. More troublingly, the proportion of older adults engaged in ... The researchers’ definition: for a man, downing five or more standard drinks in a day (...

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Ex-Googlers Stir Up Controversy With Bodega Pantry Concept

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09/18/2017

... Everyone covets convenience. Whether physical or digital, more concepts are rolling out these days intended to upend ... conventional retail with an ultimate goal: make shopping more convenient. Bodega has...

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Ford Foundation Awards 25 Fellowships to US Artists Driving Social Change

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10/02/2017

... and possibility, and inspire us to make those societies more just and more beautiful," said Elizabeth Alexander, the Ford ... and enables them to come together and collaborate toward a more...

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David Rockefeller’s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy

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11/08/2017

... 101. The money from the sales will fund pledges he made more than a decade ago to a dozen institutions, among them ... and the Museum of Modern Art, which stand to receive more than $100 million each. Several...

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New Report Supported By The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Addresses The Future Of Undergraduate Education

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12/01/2017

... a framework for helping colleges of every type work more efficiently and effectively to deal with pressing issues ... organized the commission. It conducted interviews with more than 200 students and faculty...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Markle Foundation President and CEO Zoë Baird Writes About Where Amazon Should Build Their New Headquarters

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12/05/2017

... company’s long-term success. But for Amazon, there’s a more important reason to focus on workforce development. By ... for comfortable middle class lives. For example, more than five million Americans have...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Bank of America Announces 2018 Museums on Us® Program

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01/24/2018

... of the Museums on Us program with the announcement of more than 20 new institutions being added to the roster of ... and Sunday) of every month in 2018, so they can experience more than 200 of the country’s...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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New York State Health Foundation Funded Study Finds Most NY Health Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans

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03/01/2018

... federal officials are considering whether to encourage more veterans to use their benefits to receive care in the ... RAND, a nonprofit research organization. "It appears that more work needs to be done...

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New Study, Supported By The Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, Finds College Brings Significant Benefits to Single Mothers and Society

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06/06/2018

... Society Single mothers who complete BAs earn $610,300 more over their lifetimes and are 69 percent less likely to ... earnings and lower poverty among single mother graduates, more than paying for themselves...

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United Hospital Fund Releases Report With Observations from New York City’s Partnerships for Early Childhood Development Initiative

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07/12/2018

... that partnered 11 New York City health systems with one or more community-based organizations each screened 5,534 very ... factors that can affect a child’s health, and found that more than a third (1,890)...

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Children, Youth and Families

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