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Tonya Woodland Joins the Commonwealth Fund

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03/06/2019

... in leadership capacities for mission-driven organizations. From 2016-2019, she was the Senior Director of HR & ... for the Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenton, NJ. From 2011-2016 she was an HR...

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Matthew Nelson Joins New York Life Foundation as Corporate Vice President

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10/01/2012

... in Minneapolis. Mr. Nelson received a B.A. in Sociology from Iowa State University and a Masters in Divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. He is originally from Owatonna,...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College

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10/28/2014

... As data has made clear how many top-performing students from poor and middle-class families fall through the cracks, ... a program to advise every college-qualified student from a modest background on the...

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Education

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Simons Foundation Among Backers of $28 Million Autism Treatment Study

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07/29/2015

... treated. The Yale team will collect data in Connecticut from preschoolers and school-aged children affected by autism ... The data then will be evaluated along with data taken from four other locations: Duke...

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What's Driving Variation in New York's Hospital Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation)

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12/17/2015

... hospitals and insurers tend to hide this information from consumers (and researchers) because it is considered ... these researchers had access to a large data set of claims from private insurers across the...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... Fight to Davos The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago ... waste around the world. The wide-ranging plan will stretch from thrown-out crops to excess food at...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post

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03/22/2016

... What is justice? I’ve asked my children this question from time to time, hoping they will give me an encouraging ... answer. Usually they parrot what they’ve learned from television or the games they play with...

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MetLife Foundation Sponsors Ballet Hispánico Tour

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02/21/2017

... Director & CEO Eduardo Vilaro as host, excerpts from Ballet Hispánico 's diverse repertory and a Q&A with ... 1pm, Show 2pm, Q&A 3pm. The program will feature excerpts from the crowd-pleasing...

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Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Featured in Study on Limited Life Foundations

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03/22/2017

... is the key driver for the decision to spend down, a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds. Based ... foundations, the report, A Date Certain: Lessons From Limited Life Foundations (50 pages,...

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F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money

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06/30/2017

... But some would argue that their biggest impact comes not from the money they give away, but from the far larger pile of assets they hold. Most of the ... was given away in total in the U.S.—that’s everything...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

... are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children's Hospital suggests. ... born with higher birthweight appeared to be at risk from a young age,” researcher...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... funded by the Leon Levy Foundation to digitize items from the BAM Hamm Archives. More than 70,000 individual items ... audio recordings and video are all included. Items date from the 1850s to the present and...

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A Former Felon Leads The Way In Criminal Justice Reform

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08/31/2017

... Reform In September 1999, Deanna Hoskins was released from a community-based correctional facility after serving ... of a one-year prison sentence. She was 30 and suffering from substance abuse problems. Today...

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Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

... Jersey Leaders President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, ... in the region and a top priority for many officials from the two states. It would...

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Is Online Fundraising a Bad Idea?

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09/29/2017

... the world is at my fingertips. I can order takeout from a local restaurant, express-deliver flowers to a friend ... their own website. Other organizations are transitioning from direct mail to online-only...

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Opinion: Take a Resistance Break

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10/04/2017

... population. After silent prayers and words of inspiration from our faith leaders, several hundred of us walked from the cathedral to the grounds of the state capitol to ... give voice to undocumented...

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The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

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10/06/2017

... of all refugees that came to the United States were from Africa. Three countries—Democratic Republic of the ... of all refugees resettled in the United States came from countries in Africa (primarily ...

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Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the University of Notre Dame. "Higher Highs and Lower ... Christensen of the University of Oregon and Scott Graffin from the University of...

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse

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10/18/2017

... have scanned nearly 4,000 prints, paintings, and drawings from the collection—building a website to make them ... The site, hosted at Stanford, was made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation...

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