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United Hospital Fund Works to Tackle Antibiotic Misuse in Outpatient Care

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02/22/2016

United Hospital Fund Works to Tackle Antibiotic Misuse in Outpatient Care The United Hospital Fund (UHF) ... involving hospitals across the metropolitan area in a concerted effort to improve...

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Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

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03/03/2016

... on Gentrification There Goes the Neighborhood takes an in -depth look at gentrification in Brooklyn and the integral ... process. Developers from all over the globe are hunting New York City,...

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The New York Community Trust

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Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper

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03/18/2016

... continued this week as the University of Delaware released a report showing offshore wind energy in New England would be far less costly under projects that are ...

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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

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03/30/2016

... cancer experts are calling the most promising approach in decades, got a boost Tuesday when Michael Bloomberg and other ... million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a...

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Newly-Named Soros Fellows for 2016 Include Six Indian Americans

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04/14/2016

... The 18th annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans were announced April 12 and included six Indian ... the 30 recipients. The graduate school Fellowship for New Americans — for immigrants and...

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Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support of United States Artists (USA), a non-profit ...

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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Ford Foundation"s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy

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05/12/2016

Ford Foundation"s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy Impact investing can lead to new strategies for entrepreneurs and mission-driven ... foundations...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Obamacare Is Helping Millions Get Needed Healthcare

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05/25/2016

... 60% of working-age Americans who signed up for Medicaid or a private health plan through the Affordable Care Act are getting healthcare they couldn’t previously get, a new nationwide survey...

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NY State Health Foundation Grants Available to Brownsville Residents to Help Improve Community Health

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06/09/2016

... to Help Improve Community Health If you’re looking for a way to green your neighborhood or bring healthier options ... organization is welcoming ideas. Crowd-resourcing platform In Our Backyards, or ioby, is...

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New York Health Foundation

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Stonewall Foundation's Jarrett Lucas Loves Seeing LGBTQ Youth Publicly #ExpressLove

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06/21/2016

... support and promote many LGBTQ organizations and issues in New York. PAPER, in collaboration with American Express, talked to Lucas about ...

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Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged

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06/28/2016

... the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. That's a theory posited by two political scientists, Michael Jones-Correa and James A . McCann, in a report published...

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Novo Foundation and Goren Group Announce Winner of Women's Building International Design Competition

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07/14/2016

... the conversion of the former Bayview Correctional Facility in New York into a hub for the girls’ and women’s rights movement. “For ...

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Supported by Commonwealth Fund, Study Shows Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test

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07/18/2016

... Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test A new UCSF study finds that some of the most popular apps for ... at San Francisco. The study, published this week in the Journal of...

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NYS Health Foundation President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic

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07/18/2016

... President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic In July 1981—35 years ago this month—The New York Times ran a now infamous headline: “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 ...

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NYCT, Jonas Center, John A. Hartford and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Highlighted in Health Affairs

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07/20/2016

NYCT, Jonas Center, John A . Hartford and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Highlighted in Health Affairs The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ... the Affordable Care Act. The BLS notes that the supply of...

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Supported by Rockefeller and Bloomberg, Climate Finance Project Finds Solutions for Low-Carbon Growth

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07/26/2016

... Project Finds Solutions for Low-Carbon Growth 2016 is a hot year for climate finance. Following the Paris Agreement in December and its ambitious pledges on clean energy and ... to solve these worldwide...

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Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities

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09/12/2016

... Makers Focused on People With Disabilities Saying it made a major mistake by overlooking the needs of people with disabilities in revamping its programs to focus on inequality, the Ford ... priorities, and the...

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William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans

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09/19/2016

... high school, seeing them as the quickest route to jobs. A new study finds the streamlined, focused curriculum that ... young people who attended for-profit institutions ended up in more debt...

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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

Carnegie-Funded Commission Finds Most People Want A College Degree, But That Goal Remains A Challenge Almost 90 percent of high school graduates spend some time in college, but only 40 percent of...

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