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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces First Cities Selected to Join What Works Cities Initiative

Release Date:

08/05/2015

... to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve the lives of residents. The mayors of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi; Kansas City, ...

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MTA May Cut Back On $836M Emergency Subway Repair Work If De Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up The big subway fix may be in a bit of a fix. An ambitious MTA plan to rescue the subway from collapse may get scaled back for lack of funding, the head of the MTA said...

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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

... for people facing opioid addiction. The state has one of the highest rates of overdose deaths in the country, and its Medicaid spending ... the most drastic drop in Medicaid enrollment out of...

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Ms. Foundation for Women President Amerita Examines Impact of Take Our Daughters to Work Day

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04/24/2015

Ms. Foundation for Women President Amerita Examines Impact of Take Our Daughters to Work Day In 1993, a small article ... Magazine. We created that day when I was the president of the Ms. Foundation for Women. The...

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Cuban-American Artist Garcia Ferraz Exhibits Latest Works Supported by Ford Foundation Grant in Media Arts

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04/14/2016

... Space at Edgewood, is devoted this month to the paintings of Nereida Garcia Ferraz. In addition, a small gallery ... in Cuban-American art, Garcia Ferraz has received many of this country’s prestigious art...

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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

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01/06/2017

Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco ... tobacco industry was beginning an aggressive ramping up of nefarious activities to grow their market share in ... to...

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With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans

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05/05/2017

... the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement ... are more likely to express anxiety about several aspects of retirement, to have...

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Economic Security

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Century Foundation Report Finds Out Why High-Risk Insurance Pools Still Won't Work

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03/01/2017

Recently, leaked documents from House Republicans show plans to create high-risk pools as an alternative to the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) guaranteed access to health insurance for people with pre-existing conditions.

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María Teresa Ronderos, Award-Winning Reporter, to Lead Open Society’s Work on Independent Journalism

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05/15/2014

... today named María Teresa Ronderos as the director of its Program on Independent Journalism. Ronderos will ... democracy. She will oversee a program with a 2014 budget of $12.8 million. María Teresa Ronderos,...

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Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

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08/02/2019

... construct in nature can help prospect for new classes of antibiotics through DNA sequencing and genome mining. ... this knowledge to help solve the X-ray crystal structure of the enzyme that makes obafluorin...

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The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico

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11/30/2017

... the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico The ... and develop recommendations after several months of deep engagement with local communities, NGOs, .....

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Mapping: Data visualization tools to convey knowledge and bring your foundation’s work to life

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09/2012

Part of the " Moving Strategically Along the Information Highway Series". Jake Garcia of the Foundation Center discussed helping fundations locate ... as well as provided tips for managing the flow of information. Mapping: Data visualization tools to convey .....