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

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12/09/2016

... their conditions and avoid costly hospital visits, an issue brief from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Based on a ...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries

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05/12/2017

... To inform discussion of possible changes to Medicare, this issue brief looks at beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs by ...

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William T. Grant Publishes How Social Science Research Can Improve Youth Outcomes In The Real World

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05/17/2017

Researchers who want their work to matter in policy and practice should begin by identifying the questions of greatest relevance and then bring the highest standards of theoretical and methodological rigor to those questions, William T. Grant...

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Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting

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06/05/2017

GroundTruth has a fellowship program to support journalists in all media, including photographers, documentary filmmakers, radio reporters and podcasters. To date, the project has granted about 150 fellowships of varying durations and dollar amounts.

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Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel

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06/12/2017

... The American Academy has been addressing this issue with a long-term project on the Global Nuclear Future. ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Sarah Eagle Heart to Receive 2017 American Express NGen Leadership Award

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07/26/2017

Sarah Eagle Heart, Oglala Lakota, CEO of Native Americans in Philanthropy is the recipient of the 2017 American Express NGen Leadership Award, honoring her as an emerging leader under age 40 who has already demonstrated significant impact in...

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Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites

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08/08/2017

The Legal Services Corporation published a comprehensive report and accompanying toolkit for its Statewide Website Evaluation Project, which assessed the quality of centralized legal information websites in every state, the District of Columbia, and...

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Justice Reform

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Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids

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08/29/2017

Mayo's pain program is one of a few around the country to address the emotional, social and psychological aspects of pain and reduce patients' reliance on addictive medicines. But as the nation faces an opioid epidemic, there needs to be more of...

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In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on Immigration

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09/07/2017

... Arrivals program. “If they can’t, I will revisit this issue !” In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on ...

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Immigration

Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?

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09/08/2017

How policy labs can foster greater collaboration and policy co-creation.

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Public Policy

Witness Warrants Were Misused in Queens and Elsewhere, Court Papers Say

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09/11/2017

It is one of law enforcement’s most expansive powers: If the authorities believe that someone has knowledge of a crime, they can — under threat of arrest — force the person to testify in court by obtaining what is known as a material witness warrant.

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Justice Reform

Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

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10/02/2017

The fight to compel landlords to return their properties to productive use is by no means a new one, but the discussion has a new urgency given the current severity of the homelessness crisis as well as the ongoing debates regarding the de Blasio...

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Housing and Homelessness

Ms. Foundation Seeks to Increase Traction for Childcare Amongst Funders

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10/03/2017

Childcare is out of reach for working families, but few funders have stepped in to fill the gap.

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A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

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10/06/2017

... class and mass incarceration." By focusing on a specific issue , the foundation differentiated itself from a growing .....

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As Youth Giving Since 2001 Totals $19M, Brooklyn Community Foundation CEO Reiterates the Importance of a Youth-Led Strategy

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12/11/2017

Philanthropists under the age of 30 have given a total of more than $19 million since 2001 through youth grantmaking programs, a study from YouthGiving.org, an initiative of Foundation Center, finds.

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Pete Peterson and Our Chaotic National Debates

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04/06/2018

Pete Peterson played large on the national stage, in business, politics, and policy. In recent years, he focused much of his energy—and his money—on the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

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Aetna Foundation Provides Additional Assistance to the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund

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09/14/2018

The Aetna Foundation, today, announced it will make a $100,000 contribution to the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund.

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Disaster Relief

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Support from The Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation Helps the Hawaii Island HIV/AIDS Foundation Provide Vision Services for its Clients

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12/04/2018

KAILUA-KONA — For clients of the Hawaii Island HIV/AIDS Foundation (HIHAF), a pair of eyeglasses or a vision exam can mean a world of difference in improving their quality of life. While poor vision might not seem like a huge difference maker, it...

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches #Solvable

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06/12/2019

Yes. At The Rockefeller Foundation, we believe some of the biggest challenges that limit the lives or prospects of vulnerable people are solvable — and solvable in our lifetime.

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