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Century Foundation: A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN

Release Date:

02/11/2016

... left the Paris Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with ... the ambition of the climate change plans of individual nations , and calls for...

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New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

03/07/2016

New study published in Clinical Cancer Research details the discovery of a biomarker that puts patients at a higher risk for metastasis of uveal melanoma.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)

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03/11/2016

Indiana University has joined a national consortium, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, to improve the teaching skills of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the diversity of future university...

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Microsoft Joins Bloomberg, JPMorgan & Others in Supporting Smithsonian's Museum of African American History

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03/25/2016

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens this fall after five years of construction, is gaining backing from a wide array of donors.

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Aetna Foundation

Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

Release Date:

03/28/2016

A program to increase the vocabulary of poor children in Rhode Island, using technology to count every word spoken, is not achieving results expected. But whether the pioneering program is a national model or just an interesting concept hasn't been...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

Release Date:

04/25/2016

... The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, delivered a ... global warming. World leaders gathered at the United Nations on Friday for the two-day...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

NYS Health Foundation President Calls For Proper Veteran Care

Release Date:

05/09/2016

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is again under fire for the dangerously long waiting lists for appointments at the nation’s VA health care facilities, and for calculating those wait times in a way that masks the true extent of the problem.

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

The New York Community Trust (NYCT) has renewed a grant through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to educate and train more social workers.

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The New York Community Trust

NYSHealth Foundation Hosts A Conversation With Sean Cavanaugh on the Future of Medicare

Release Date:

03/31/2017

On March 28, 2017, NYSHealth hosted a conversation with Sean Cavanaugh, one of the nation's leading experts on Medicare, to discuss what is in store for Medicare in this rapidly changing health care landscape.

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New York Health Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Report Finds that the GOP Health Care Act Would Reverse Gains Made by Community Hospitals

Release Date:

05/05/2017

As House Republicans savor their major victory Thursday in narrowly passing their highly controversial and little-understood plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, it’s instructive to consider some of the highly positive fiscal...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

Release Date:

07/25/2017

The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday, positively impacts children up through the age of 12 but affects male and female children differently, according...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

High-Level UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend At the United Nations , His Excellency Prof. Alpha Condé, President of ... into a positive force for development, will ensure African nations are able to reap...

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Opinion: The Community Health Center Fund: What’s At Risk?

Release Date:

10/10/2017

Tucked into the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a special 5-year funding authorization to expand the reach of the community health centers program. This special funding authority expired in 2015.

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Funded by the Carnegie Corporation and OSF, The New Americans Campaign Program Expands To Philadelphia

Release Date:

03/20/2018

Philadelphia is the latest U.S. city to join in the New Americans Campaign (NAC), a multi-organizational collaborative network supporting eligible immigrants in the naturalization process in over 20 metropolitan areas across the country.

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Open Society Foundations

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Ninth Annual Fiscal Summit Will Outline Urgent Need for Fiscal Reset following Recent Tax and Spending Legislation

Release Date:

05/01/2018

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation will convene the 2018 Fiscal Summit: Debt Matters on Thursday, May 10, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. As campaigns for the 2018 midterm elections get underway within a rapidly changing policy...

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Civic Engagement

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Johnson Family Foundation Welcomes New Executive Director

Release Date:

08/06/2018

After a nation-wide search, the Johnson Family Foundation (JFF) is pleased to welcome Frank Baiocchi as its next Executive Director.

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Century Foundation Releases New Report: Finding Workers Where They Are

Release Date:

02/07/2019

It is surprising that one of the most successful and powerful social movements in the nation’s history—the labor movement—has not launched a coherent, large-scale digital organizing strategy to recruit a new generation of workers.1 This is true even...

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23 Jun 2021

Reopening, Hybrid Work, and Why are the Guidelines Constantly Changing? Aaaaarrrrgh!

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 -

10:30am to 12:00pm

... are opening up everywhere, what about your office? Are you looking at next week, next month, after Labor Day? Will ... all of your staff be back, or just some portion, or are you developing a flexible, hybrid...

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03 Feb 2022

Legal Series - Self-Dealing (Family Foundations & Family Offices)

Thursday, February 3, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... in foundation operations and governance. Did you know that violations of the self-dealing tax rules may ... scrutiny or worse. Learn about these topics so that you can be better at spotting issues before they...

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Arcus Foundation Names Adrian Coman Director of International Human Rights

Release Date:

02/01/2013

... human rights mechanisms, such as at the United Nations . As part of its new social justice strategy, Arcus ... implemented the organization’s strategy at the United Nations . Earlier, Coman was Acting Director...

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