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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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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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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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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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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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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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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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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up

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08/28/2017

While STEM giving is one of the hottest funding areas in higher ed philanthropy, most of the gifts we profile are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals—a new science building, teacher training, diversifying the ranks of science majors, and...

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Tow Foundation Funded News Integrity Initiative Awards $1.8 Million to Build Support for Quality Journalism

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10/04/2017

... the spring of this year, the Initiative is a $14 million fund to investigate the roots of mistrust in news and invest ...

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Communications/Media

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Commonwealth Fund Analysis Shows how Disastrous the Medicaid Work Requirement Would be, Given the Opioid Crisis

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01/12/2018

Commonwealth Fund Analysis Shows how Disastrous the Medicaid Work ... waivers, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund . The state predicts that a full 15 percent of its ... years of the waiver’s...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz to Receive Council on Foundations Distinguished Service Award

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11/08/2018

Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz to Receive Council on ... Stephen Heintz, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund , with its 2018 Distinguished Service Award. First ... Corporation of New York...

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Commonwealth Fund President Dr. David Blumenthal Explains North-South Health Divide

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04/12/2016

Commonwealth Fund President Dr. David Blumenthal Explains How Health ... health of those in the American South... Commonwealth Fund President Dr. David Blumenthal Explains North-South ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Scientists Probing Underground Depths Of Earth’s Carbon Cycle

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11/10/2016

Understanding how carbon dissolves in water at the molecular level under extreme conditions is critical to understanding the Earth’s deep carbon cycle–a process that ultimately influences global climate change.

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