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New York State Health Foundation Report Finds NY State Premiums Are Among the Highest in the Country

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04/02/2018

... Report Finds NY State Premiums Are Among the Highest in the Country As Albany lawmakers consider imposing costly ... The state’s premiums are already among the highest in the country, and rising fast. The...

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Supported by The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New Report Finds Even Light Drinking Increases Risk of Death

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10/03/2018

... a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Analyzing data from more than 400,000 people ... across age groups. The study is published online Oct. 3 in the journal Alcoholism:...

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Ford Foundation to Open Gallery for Socially Engaged Art in New York

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02/13/2019

Ford Foundation to Open Gallery for Socially Engaged Art in New York Next month, the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice will open an art gallery in its iconic Midtown headquarters, which just underwent a...

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Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night

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04/05/2019

... record of more than 70,000 nighttime songbird collisions in Chicago and Cleveland suggests that birds disoriented by ... says first author Benjamin Winger, an assistant professor in the ecology and...

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Karen B. Peetz Elected to Guardian Board of Directors

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04/25/2019

... oversight. Prior to her appointment as President in January 2013, Ms. Peetz led BNY Mellon's Financial Markets and Treasury Services Group . Before joining BNY Mellon in 1998, Ms. Peetz...

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The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

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Welcome to Smart Assets!

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04/23/2009

Philanthropy New York is pleased to present Smart Assets , a forum for our members to discuss issues affecting our sector and the practice of philanthropy. Our first post is from Charles Hamilton, Philanthropy New York’s Senior Fellow and former...

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How Open Road Alliance is Helping Cure a Blind Spot for Philanthropists

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10/02/2018

... while attending the 2011 Burning Man arts festival in Nevada. Michaels, who’s married to billionaire dealmaker ... facing unexpected roadblocks. It made its first grant in 2012 and now offers loans, too. Open...

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Arabella Advisors Launch "Good Food Ventures III" to Transform Food System

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09/24/2019

... sustainably produced food for all. This is the third year in which GFV will bring investment-ready deals to individual ... system innovation is hard to overestimate. Agricultural practices in...

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Did Exxon Deceive Its Investors on Climate Change? - Lee Wasserman, Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, Featured in The New York Times

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10/21/2019

... Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, Featured in The New York Times The New York attorney general’s ... that if successful, would force Exxon Mobil, which took in some $290 billion in...

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Freedom Summer - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Film Series

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... Nelson examines an often overlooked but essential chapter in the Civil Rights Movement: the 1964 interracial Freedom ... and intimidation to register African-American voters in a heavily segregated Mississippi...

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The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Unemployment

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12/09/2014

... and the unmarried also face employment headwinds. In a new report , TCF’s Mike Cassidy looks beyond headline ... at twice the rate of whites—even when they are identical in dimensions other than skin color...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report on Charter Schools and District Integration

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09/16/2015

... The report’s author, The Century Foundation education fellow Halley Potter, recommends four key elements ...

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Case Study: Designing More Affordable and Effective Health Care (Commonwealth Fund)

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02/09/2016

... and other vulnerable populations. The first publication in the series profiled the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation. Spiraling health care costs in the U.S. place untenable burdens on an...

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Teagle Foundation's Connor on Asserting the Value of the Humanities

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04/22/2016

... 101 where the enrollment is eight, while the enrollment in Economics 101 is 189?” My friend reported she had become ... the case for the classics, the humanities and liberal education in...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Releases New Book on the Value of Diversity

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10/25/2016

... pluribus unum), and the realization of full participation in the economy, in educational systems, in voting and the law and politics more generally, that ...

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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... strategies that help students improve their proficiency in math, a linchpin academic subject. Teacher Advisor With ...

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As Incident Reports Rise, City Officials Seek New Answers to Combat Domestic Violence

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09/18/2017

... Seek New Answers to Combat Domestic Violence Increases in reports of domestic violence have gotten the attention New ... more; while new legislation is expected to soon pass in the City Council. On Monday, the...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Awarded $1.3 Billion to Nonprofit Organizations in 2017

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02/12/2018

... Foundation Awarded $1.3 Billion to Nonprofit Organizations in 2017 The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has ... that it awarded $1.3 billion to nonprofit organizations in 2017 and received gifts totaling $1...

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New York Times Op-Ed "Good Leaders Make Good Schools" Cites Important Wallace-Commissioned Research Report

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03/13/2018

... to the nation’s problems already exist somewhere out in the country; we just do a terrible job of circulating ... colleges directly after graduation increased to 63 percent in 2015 from 50 percent in...

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