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Commonwealth Fund Contemplates Mobile Health Apps for Patients with Chronic Illnesses

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12/07/2016

... for Patients with Chronic Illnesses For the roughly half of all Americans with chronic health problems, there are more ... health apps designed to help them deal with a wide range of illnesses and conditions...

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Ford’s Darren Walker Writes About Why Foundations Need to Pay Attention to What Grantees Are Saying

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12/07/2016

... committed to disrupting and dismantling inequality in all of its forms. Yet we constantly are confronted with an ... Foundations currently hold an inordinate amount of leverage in any grantmaker-grantee...

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Social Justice

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Arabella Advisors Report Finds Divestments from Fossil Fuels Top $5.2 Trillion

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12/13/2016

... heavyweights are moving their assets and funds out of fossil fuels at a record pace. A network of local governments, pension funds, faith organizations, ... to a report released on Monday. That’s a huge sum...

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Environment and Climate Change

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NY Community Trust Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’s Policies Of ‘Fear’

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03/06/2017

... Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’s Policies Of ‘Fear’ A Manhattan philanthropy is raising $1 million ... undocumented settlers from coast to coast — organizers of the fund reasoned that they had to do...

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The New York Community Trust

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Social Justice

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Ford's Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The Soul Of The Country’ and Are Worth Fighting For

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03/21/2017

Ford's Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The Soul Of The Country’ and Are Worth Fighting For The arts spark ... to democracy. “Art is not a privilege. It is the soul of our country, the beating heart of...

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Arts

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Podcast: The Surdna Foundation Pivots to Mark 100 Years of Impact

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03/24/2017

Podcast: The Surdna Foundation Pivots to Mark 100 Years of Impact In 1917, businessman John Andrus decided to give ... after himself — except he reversed the spelling of his surname. As it celebrates its...

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Carnegie, Ford Give $1M to Free Legal Services Project for Immigrants

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03/27/2017

... offers pro-bono legal services to immigrants regardless of their residency status. Coordinated by the state’s ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Immigration

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Report Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Finds Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year

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04/06/2017

... in the medical journal Lancet found that, in 2015, 11.5% of global deaths (approximately 6.4 million people) were attributable to smoking worldwide, of which 52.2% took place in four countries: China, India...

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Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights

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04/19/2017

... grant from the Open Society Foundations in support of its efforts to advance human rights through science and ... investments in new technology and to expand its network of health professionals and human...

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Supported by Bloomberg, New York Stem Cell Foundation Opens New Research Institute and Headquarters in Manhattan

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04/20/2017

... 40,000 square foot Research Institute in Manhattan, one of the largest laboratories in the world devoted exclusively ... The new facility, which also contains the headquarters of NYSCF, an independent, non-...

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Rajiv Shah on Rockefeller Foundation Priorities, Multilateralism and Philanthropy

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04/20/2017

... Priorities, Multilateralism and Philanthropy Amid a mood of global distrust toward institutions, philanthropic ... together and taking risks, said Rajiv Shah in some of his first public remarks since taking...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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NYS Health Foundation Grant Supports NewYork Quality Care Roll Out of OpenNotes to 30,000+ Patients

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05/18/2017

... Foundation Grant Supports NewYork Quality Care Roll Out of OpenNotes to 30,000+ Patients Some 30,000 patients ... Quality Care, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) of NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia...

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New York Health Foundation

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Businesses Donate Over $157 Million to Harvey Relief Efforts

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09/05/2017

... to disaster relief organizations to help victims of Tropical Storm Harvey. The storm is expected to leave behind billions of dollars in damages. Companies have pledged more than $157 million to relief efforts...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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NYSHealth 2018 Special Projects Fund Request for Proposals Available

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09/11/2017

... will be invited to submit full proposals, with deadlines of November 30, 2017 and May 16, 2018. NYSHealth Special ... with the Foundation's mission to improve the health of all New Yorkers but outside...

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RFPs Etc

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New York Health Foundation

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Amid Hurricane Chaos, Domestic Abuse Victims Risk Being Overlooked

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09/12/2017

... stability and routine. But during catastrophes, victims of domestic violence face a unique challenge: seeking safety ... but domestic violence survivors face a “double whammy” of escaping the danger of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Patrick Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society Foundations

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09/13/2017

... to South Africa will become the new acting president of his global foundation following the departure of Christopher Stone. Patrick Gaspard, who also was a top ... take over the Open Society Foundations at the...

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Appointments & Transitions

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Joins Jim and Marilyn Simons to Dedicate Flatiron Institute

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09/14/2017

... new Flatiron Institute, an intramural research division of the Simons Foundation that tackles big datasets — and ... “New scientific instrumentation has created datasets of unprecedented size and scope, and...

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Science

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Refugees Rent Trump’s Childhood Home To Send Message To UN Leaders

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09/19/2017

President Donald Trump’s childhood home in New York had some new occupants over the weekend — refugees who shared their stories as a way to draw attention to the refugee crisis as the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week with Trump in...

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Immigration

Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was in the middle of a major revamping and that problems in the endowment would ... That return significantly trails the mean one-year return of 12.7 percent for more than...

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