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Westchester Community Foundation's Rossi Leads Brainstorming Session for Healthy Westchester

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09/30/2016

... leaders are gathering on Friday at Pace Law School in White Plains with The Keep Westchester Thriving Coalition ...

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The Westchester Community Foundation

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New York Community Trust Supports Fellowship to Build Diversity in Arts Management

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01/31/2017

... Community Trust Supports Fellowship to Build Diversity in Arts Management "This fellowship program will enable BRIC and our partners to invest in the careers of a new generation of arts administrators who...

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Arts

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MetLife Foundation and Special Olympics Announce International Partnership

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04/28/2017

Special Olympics and MetLife Foundation, the philanthropic arm of global insurer MetLife, announced a $1.5 million, three year international partnership to expand Special Olympics Young Athletes across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (“EMEA...

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Did You Get Free SUNY Tuition? NY Reveals Figures

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10/02/2017

... a full course load, she was not allowed to participate in the Excelsior Scholarship program. "It’s totally absurd. .....

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The Foundation Center Announces New Staff to Lead Technology, Outreach and International Data Strategies

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02/12/2014

... for philanthropy and ensuring robust technology is in place to support these services. "These new roles — and ... strategic priorities into reality and ensure that those working to make the world a better...

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Sozosei Foundation Awards Grants to Local Texas Communities Impacted by Winter Storm

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03/10/2021

... private charitable foundation, awarded a total of $75,000 in grants to three organizations in Texas that are providing local disaster recovery relief. ... The Austin Area Urban League/Love Thy Neighbor Fund...

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Disaster Relief

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OSF Backed Nonprofit Helping India Move to a Low-Carbon Energy Economy

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11/03/2014

... to overall development, says a report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI). As the country is trying to meet ... to meet economic and development goals, which will result in a saving of USD 600 billion for...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Close That Gap: William T. Grant Foundation Zeroes in on Inequality and Kids

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03/30/2015

Close That Gap: William T. Grant Foundation Zeroes in on Inequality and Kids Once in a while, research on an issue is so galvanizing that it ... may be poised to break out and help fuel changes in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Inside the Russell Sage Foundation

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04/15/2015

... Russell Sage Foundation Russell Sage made his wealth in America's first Gilded Age—as a financier and railroad ... But its research has played a crucial, if subtle role in moving inequality to the center...

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Aetna Foundation Encourages Using Data to Help Tackle Healthcare Disparities

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08/11/2015

... Garth Graham, MaryLynn Ostrowski and Alyse Sabina write in a Health Affairs blog post. "A person's ZIP code is a ... disparities were eliminated, up to 80,000 early deaths in the United States would...

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

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10/27/2015

... Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S. Faced with physician shortages, long wait ... to nurses with advanced training. For a study published in Health Policy...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare Supports New Initiative to Forecast Trends in U.S. Healthcare Spending

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04/19/2016

... on Healthcare Supports New Initiative to Forecast Trends in U.S. Healthcare Spending The Peterson Center on Healthcare ... to identify past drivers of U.S. healthcare spending in order to better forecast...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare

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Commonwealth Study Inspires App to Connect People to Doctors Faster

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06/01/2016

... the co-founder of Akira, felt there needed to be a change in the healthcare system. "It came out of our own ... a lot of good research on why this is so important to do in Canada. [ In a...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Details its Mission-Aligned and Impact Investment Strategy

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09/16/2016

... The section also includes the Fund's updated Investment Policy Statement as well as a guiding document on .....

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Open Society Foundations Founder George Soros Writes in WSJ About $500 Million Investment in Migrants

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09/20/2016

Open Society Foundations Founder George Soros Writes in WSJ About $500 Million Investment in Migrants The world has been unsettled by a surge in forced migration. Tens of millions of people are...

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Immigration

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation Founder Writes About Ignoring the Debt Problem

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10/24/2016

... poor substitutes for serious debate about the direction in which this country is going — or should be going. And a ... structure is a key ingredient of any viable economic policy . Yes, this country can handle...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Finding Common Ground on International Tax Reform

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11/17/2016

... tax system is broken. As a result, over $2.5 trillion in profits from U.S. companies are sitting overseas untaxed ...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Shows Covered California Consumers Saving and Paying Much Less Than Expected for Quality Coverage

Release Date:

01/11/2017

... Coverage This analysis of health plan premium growth in California’s insurance marketplaces, focusing on the ... finds that the average price paid for plans selected in 2014 was 11.6 percent less than the...

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UJA-Federation of New York Convenes Panel on Growing Poverty on Long Island

Release Date:

01/30/2017

... by Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Social policy at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and lead researcher on the Jewish Community Study ...

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