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

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10/16/2014

Commonwealth Fund Ranks US Health Care Last Among World's Wealthiest ... morbidity and longer hospital stay. The Commonwealth Fund ranked the health care system of 11 wealthy nations by ... quality. The...

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MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program

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11/10/2014

... Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund ’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program The ... has partnered with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), a UN initiative to increase...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces $2.2 Million in Emergency Funding for Ebola Response Efforts

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11/18/2014

... and already working on the ground, the grant will fund ongoing activities to immediately address emerging ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Alfred P. Sloan and Simons Tapped to Offset Federal Budget Cuts in Science Funding

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03/17/2015

The coalition, the Science Philanthropy Alliance, has picked Marc Kastner as its first president.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing

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03/19/2015

Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact ... some of his heirs did last fall. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund , a family foundation with $860 million in assets and a .....

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New York Community Trusts and Partners Fund Grants Bringing Digital Media Learning to More Youth

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11/04/2015

New York Community Trusts and Partners Fund Grants Bringing Digital Media Learning to More Youth ... The money comes from the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund , a donor collaborative housed in The New York...

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The New York Community Trust

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Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest

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11/10/2015

Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance ... Sickest and Frailest New analysis from The Commonwealth Fund offers guidance on how to improve outcomes and lower ... high-cost patients...

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Surdna-Funded Report Suggests Better Language, New Approaches to Community Wealth Building

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11/11/2015

A new report, “Cities Building Community Wealth," defines and names a movement that has been brewing beneath the radar for at least 40 years: the community wealth-building movement.

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Community Development

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Commonwealth Fund: Latest Scorecard on Health System Performance Shows More Improvement Than Decline Across States

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12/09/2015

Commonwealth Fund : Latest Scorecard on Health System Performance Shows ... to care expanded across the nation, The Commonwealth Fund ’s latest Scorecard on State Health System Performance ... to childhood...

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

Older women, minorities, especially Latinos, most at risk; aging baby boomers contribute to increase.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Study Funded by Open Society Foundations Finds Digital Devices Are Key to Success for Black and Latino Males

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05/24/2016

A newly released report reveals that improving life outcomes for boys and men of color will rely heavily on their access to trusted resources, both in face-to-face interactions and online.

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Commonwealth Fund, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and John A. Hartford Foundations Combine Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs

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07/29/2016

Commonwealth Fund , Peterson Center on Healthcare, and John A. Hartford ... England Journal of Medicine, leaders of the Commonwealth Fund , the Peterson Center on Healthcare, and the John A. ... many of them older...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect ... researchers conducted a study with the Milbank Memorial Fund to learn what the challenges were in implementing a more .....

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need ... hospital visits, an issue brief from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Based on a survey of more than three thousand ... times (47 percent) in...

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United Hospital Fund, NYSHealth Foundation Give $400K to Integrate Mental Health Care into Primary Care Practices

Release Date:

03/02/2017

United Hospital Fund , NYSHealth Foundation Give $400K to Integrate Mental ... The two grants, one for $188,320 from the United Hospital Fund and one for $215,670 from the New York State Health ... access to...

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New York Health Foundation

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Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources

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03/10/2017

The law is widely viewed as targeting groups backed by the Open Society Foundations and its founder, Hungarian-born U.S. financier George Soros.

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.

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Arts

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Policy Uncertainty over Affordable Care Act Means Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says

Release Date:

05/23/2017

... Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says Today, the Trump administration has said it will ... ask for a 90-day delay in deciding whether to continue to fund the Affordable Care Act’s...

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New United Hospital Fund Report Finds AHCA Ill-Suited and Destructive for New York

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06/08/2017

New United Hospital Fund Report Finds AHCA Ill-Suited and Destructive for New ... to a new report released today by United Hospital Fund (UHF). Rewind: New York State Faces Familiar Issues and ... tax credits,...

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