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Two Hedge Fund Billionaires Donate $1M Each to Pro-Charter School Advocates

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10/21/2015

Two Hedge Fund Billionaires Donate $1M Each to Pro-Charter School ... Advocates, Families for Excellent Schools Two hedge fund billionaires dropped $1 million each on a controversial ... both donated a cool...

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Bloomberg-Funded Study: Industry Initiatives to Prevent Drinking & Driving Lack Scientific Evidence of Effectiveness

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02/22/2016

Researchers find that the most effective interventions, such as use of sobriety checkpoints and ignition interlocks, are rarely used in industry-sponsored programs.

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

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04/15/2016

"Lookout Farm," the famed home of the late writer Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, will be restored using materials and funding provided by U.S. organizations, including the Caterpillar Foundation and Caterpillar Inc., the AT&T...

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NYSHealth Funding Opportunity Now Open: Empowering Health Care Consumers in New York State

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04/18/2016

... control, and convenience. Through this RFP, we expect to fund ambitious, large-scale projects or studies that may, as ...

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United Hospital Fund Report Analyzes New York's Resuscitated Individual Health Insurance Market

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05/26/2016

United Hospital Fund Report Analyzes New York's Resuscitated Individual Health Insurance Market A new United Hospital Fund report provides an analysis of enrollment and financial ... which typically exceeded...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014

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07/20/2016

Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers ... first were sold for 2014. The report by the Commonwealth Fund also reveals that insurers who did the best selling ... losses that averaged...

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Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population

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08/04/2016

Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population The American Civil Liberties Union is retooling an ambitious, donor-funded effort to reduce incarceration across the country,...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Sickest Americans Are Paying More for Care, Getting Less

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08/31/2016

Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Sickest Americans Are Paying More for Care, ... spending, however, a new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund finds that those with the greatest medical need — ... listen or explain...

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City Council to Examine Young Men's Initiative Funded by Bloomberg and Open Society Foundations

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09/21/2016

On Wednesday, about five years after the launch of the Young Men’s Initiative, the City Council will hold an oversight hearing to examine the status of YMI and its effectiveness nearly three years into the de Blasio administration.

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Carnegie-Funded Commission Finds Most People Want A College Degree, But That Goal Remains A Challenge

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09/22/2016

Almost 90 percent of high school graduates spend some time in college, but only 40 percent of those students complete a bachelor's degree in four years and 60 percent in six, according to a new report about undergraduate education.

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Americans’ Salaries Can’t Keep Up With Rising Medical Costs

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10/26/2016

Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Americans’ Salaries Can’t Keep Up With ... . A report being issued Wednesday by The Commonwealth Fund , a nonpartisan research foundation, found that premiums ... doctors’ visits and...

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Covenant Foundation Funds Expansion of Shinui, the Network for Innovation in Part-Time Jewish Education

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11/08/2016

... Foundation for Jewish Education of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago – have joined Shinui, the ...

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A NYS Health-Funded Report in 'Consumer Reports' Offers National and Local Ratings of Health Cost Estimator Tools

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12/02/2016

This NYSHealth-funded report in Consumer Reports offers ratings of health cost estimator tools, both nationally and New York State-specific, that help consumers make better-informed decisions about their health care.

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NYC Secures $80.2 Million from State Funding Competitions for 112 Projects Across City

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12/09/2016

The city was awarded $80.2 million for 112 projects across the five boroughs, by far the largest allocation it has received since Gov. Cuomo created the Regional Economic Development Council competitions for state dollars six years ago

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Princeton Project Funded by Two PNY Members Reveals Insight into Behavior-Change Campaigns

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01/20/2017

... Scholars Program and the Russell Sage Foundation fund a project that asked students to report who they ...

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Children, Youth and Families

The Commonwealth Fund Outlines 10 Recommendations for Policymakers Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs

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01/20/2017

The Commonwealth Fund Outlines 10 Recommendations for Policymakers Designing a ... Complex Needs In 2014, the New York–based Commonwealth Fund established the International Experts Working Group on ... based on...

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Edgar Villanueva of Schott Foundation Says Less Than .3% of Funding Goes to Native Communities

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02/02/2017

Less than .3% of funding goes to native communities. What are ways funders can be creative in engaging native communities?

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Proteus Fund Announces a New Funder Collaborative to Oppose the Use of Religious Exemptions to Undermine Fundamental Rights

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03/16/2017

Proteus Fund Announces a New Funder Collaborative to Oppose the Use ... Collaborative (RFDC) is a newly created grantmaking fund that opposes the inappropriate use of religious ... advocacy and organizing work in...

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Atlantic Philanthropies, Commonwealth Fund and Other Foundations Take a Stand — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan

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03/20/2017

Atlantic Philanthropies, Commonwealth Fund and Other Foundations Take a Stand — or Not — on the ... as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund have remained focused on the issue but are leery...

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Funded by the Educational Foundation of America, New Study Finds Potential for High-Impact Philanthropy Untapped in South

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04/07/2017

Funded by the Educational Foundation of America and the Kresge and Mary Reynolds Babcock foundations, the report argues that the South is fertile ground for philanthropic investment and boasts both the skills and infrastructure necessary to empower...

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