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Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Increase Graduation Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment

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10/17/2014

Foundations like Carnegie Corporation of New York and Open Society are major supporters of these small high school programs.

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Eric C. Schneider to Join The Commonwealth Fund as Senior Vice President for Policy and Research

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11/26/2014

Eric C. Schneider to Join The Commonwealth Fund as Senior Vice President for Policy and Research ... director of its Boston office, will join The Commonwealth Fund as Senior Vice President for Policy and Research...

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The Today Show Discusses Long-Term Care with United Hospital Fund's Carol Levine

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12/11/2014

... Today Show Discusses Long-Term Care with United Hospital Fund 's Carol Levine Long-term care doesn't mean just a ... Care for Dummies," told TODAY. United Hospital Fund ’s Next Step in Care offers...

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Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City Cannot Accept Donations for World Cup Parade

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07/10/2015

Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City Cannot Accept Donations for ... average Gotham residents have been flooding the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City with calls to make donations, a city government...

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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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Justice Reform

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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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Workforce Development

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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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