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The Peterson Center on Healthcare has named healthcare leader Jay Want, MD as its new Executive Director. Dr. Want will lead the Center’s expanding portfolio of initiatives and grants to identify high-performance models of healthcare, validate their...

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David Blumenthal to Step Down as Commonwealth Fund President at End of Year

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05/11/2022

... believed that for an organization to remain vigorous and innovative , there must be periodic change in leadership,” ...

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06 Jan 2010

Nourishing Strong Communities: Access to Healthy Food as an Essential Ingredient of Community Building

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... early childhood and youth. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION With the rapid rise of diet-related illness and the increased demand ...

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Simons Foundation Names Boyana Konforti Director of Education & Outreach

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09/02/2014

... positioned and oversaw that publication’s launch and rapid growth into the successful journal it is today. She ...

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Atlantic Shows Support for Grassroots Organizing in Sandy-Affected Communities

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03/05/2013

By Abigail Westbrook, Special Assistant to the Founder and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies With our U.S. offices located in New York City, Hurricane Sandy hit close to home. It impacted our New York-based...

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02 Mar 2016

Playing Catch Up: Are You Up to Date on Changing NYC Employment Laws?

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Paid sick leave. A higher living wage. Gender identity. Ban the box. Are you keeping abreast of the rapidly changing employment laws in New York City? Join us for a presentation from Daniel Murphy of Putney, Twombly, Hall & Hirson, LLP. Dan has...

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Simons Foundation's Quanta Magazine Celebrates Five Years of Public Service Science Journalism

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07/17/2018

In an uncertain time in the media business, Quanta Magazine has flourished as a source of deeply reported, well-crafted articles about the cutting edge of scientific and mathematical understanding.

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New York Community Trust President, Lorie Slutsky, Joins Community Foundation Leaders to Discuss the Role of Donor Advised Funds in Their Communities

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08/20/2018

... the Role of Donor Advised Funds in Their Communities The rapid growth of donor-advised funds (DAFs) is one of the ...

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Open Society Foundations, Foundation for a Just Society, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Create Group Initiative to Support Women's Funds

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11/20/2019

The initiative will help women’s funds invest in their own organizations—strengthening infrastructure, leadership, communications, fundraising, learning, and other efforts—to help them maximize their impact and achieve their goals.

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26 Apr 2016

Learning from LA - Is Our Sister City Supporting Nonprofits Better?

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 -

1:30pm to 3:30pm

... nonprofits are facing and taking action. One of most innovative philanthropic leaders is the Weingart Foundation ... be signed by all five supervisors to urge California’s state leaders to fully embrace and...

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Commonwealth Fund Ranks US Health Care Last Among World's Wealthiest Nations

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10/16/2014

United States falls short on access to health care and cost of coverage.

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Boosting Adult Education in New York

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07/16/2015

... in New York In recent years, New York City and State policymakers have made k-12 education reform a top ... development in New York. As just one indication of the state ’s neglect, the main funding source for...

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United Way of New York City Joins Cuomo and Other Leaders for Economic Justice

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09/18/2015

... and following his three terms as Governor of New York State . He successfully increased the minimum wage twice while ... workers and eliminate sweatshops once and for all in the state . And he established the...

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JP Morgan Chase Launches 'New Skills For Youth'; Invests $75M to Build Tomorrow’s Economy

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01/19/2016

... need to grow and compete. With the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium, we ...

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As 12 Early Community Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’s Long-term Commitment

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06/17/2016

... skirmish centers on a dozen community schools that used state grants to finance after-school programs, tutoring, and ... $6 million expires at the end of June — even though state officials said Monday that the...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

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09/29/2016

... Initiative has announced it is building a memorial in the state capital of Montgomery devoted to 4,075 blacks its ... Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state -sanctioned segregation -...

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Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, including Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and Govs. Andrew M. Cuomo and Chris Christie, to discuss the future of a...

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The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

... with a free daily lunch. The move came a few months after state Senator Liz Krueger and state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill to ... — and, more specifically, lunch shaming — across the ...

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New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries

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09/25/2017

President Trump on Sunday issued a new order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing threats to national security posed by letting...

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