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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others The billionaire investor ... holding company Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKA ), according to an official filing Thursday. He's now made a huge...

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

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12/09/2016

... patients with complex medical needs, many of whom struggle to access the coordinated medical, behavioral, and social services they need to manage their conditions and avoid costly hospital visits, ... with 21...

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Health

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... that a budget is a statement of policy, the surest way to determine the values and priorities a society embraces. ... for the past three decades, investing trillions of dollars to expand a criminal-justice...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

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01/12/2017

... a $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across ... Web. The grant will support Wikimedia community efforts to enable the addition of...

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Communications/Media

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Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature

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02/17/2017

... educators and business leaders, who see it directly linked to the striking underrepresentation of blacks and Latinos in ...

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

... Communities grant program. The grants are from $50,000 to $100,000 and come out of the $2 million program. "This funding addresses the need to improve opportunities for all Americans—regardless of income...

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

... produced a satirical story of a town that wakes up to learn its black residents have disappeared. In “Day of ... in pre-“Hamilton” cleverness, by black actors -- come to terms with their segregated world...

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NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing

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04/17/2017

... Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing Last week, the foundation announced that it would commit $1 billion to investments that “earn not only attractive financial .....

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Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color

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06/21/2017

... of Color By now it’s clear the Trump era will be cruel to women. The President and Congress have proposed draconian cuts to the nation’s most effective health, nutrition, education , and...

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Gender Justice

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United Hospital Fund Report Examines Ramifications of Eligible Adults Refusing Prescribed Home Health Care

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08/24/2017

... caregivers alone were both skilled and had time enough to do the job as reasons for folks refusing home care. According to the study, in most cases, people resist home care to their own...

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Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

... On Thursday, a million New York City children will return to school. Educators have long been concerned about a ... In the coming year, schools will once again be forced to hire teachers that no other school...

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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side

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09/13/2017

... Integration Plan for Lower East Side The New York City education department on Tuesday revealed a plan that ... schools. It is the first effort under Mayor Bill de Blasio to tackle segregation on a district-...

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Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York

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09/15/2017

... with 500. The top three industries that added jobs were: education and health services, with 1,700; health care and ...

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

... middle and high school students are not getting the sex education required by the state, according to a report released on Thursday by New York City Comptroller ... the rates had been in decline for four years...

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De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.

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09/26/2017

... ticking on the future of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s boldest education initiative. His Renewal School program, which pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to turn around the city’s most troubled schools, has .....

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals Why is meat so cheap? McDonald’s ... USDA and the Small Business Administration guarantee loans to farmers, including owners of CAFOs (Confined Animal ... conduct research, do...

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Food Systems

After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues

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10/03/2017

... chancellor, Carmen Fariña, said Monday that, in response to last week’s fatal stabbing at a school in the Bronx, the Education Department would focus its training for teachers on how to...

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New Initiative Aims to Have Every New York City Public School Student See a Broadway Show

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10/10/2017

New Initiative Aims to Have Every New York City Public School Student See a ... League has teamed up with the New York City Department of Education to launch the first year of Broadway Bridges,...

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