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9 Million Kids Get Health Insurance Under CHIP. Congress Just Let It Expire.

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10/02/2017

... many of the children in the program unable to see a doctor for routine checkups, immunizations, visits when sick and ... of President Bill Clinton, provided coverage for children in families with low and...

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New York Is Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions

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10/03/2017

At New York City's housing court in downtown Brooklyn, where judges preside over landlord-tenant disputes, about 30 people stand in line, waiting to speak to a clerk. They’re representing themselves in court.

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Housing and Homelessness

Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate

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10/10/2017

... the rights of employers to deny women insurance coverage for contraception and issued sweeping guidance on religious ... critics said could also erode civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and...

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Shake Shack Founder on Changing The Way Restaurants Do Business

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10/10/2017

... his first restaurant in 1985, the innovations in food, service and hospitality he's pioneered have been so widely .....

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Food Systems

Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing

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10/13/2017

... rating process aimed to hold large fund managers acuntable for delivering on wide range of impacts. Community Capital ... mutual fund to receive a third-party rating for impact . Just as third-party ratings...

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De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless

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10/13/2017

... press conference. The city does provide 30 days of notice for the opening of a new shelter, but has not done so when it ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Open Society Foundations Launches Initiative to Support A More Inclusive American Democracy

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05/02/2018

... staff in the United States who have recently left public service . The program is designed for public-sector leaders interested in using the fellowship ... of OSF's U.S. Programs’ goals, which include...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Civic Engagement

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Trinity Church Appoints Neill Coleman as New Chief Philanthropy Officer

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05/25/2018

... Coleman will lead the grants and mission investing team for the lower Manhattan church, which awards more than $10 ...

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New Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Grant to Fund Treatment for Underserved

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07/13/2018

... Life Insurance Company of America Grant to Fund Treatment for Underserved The Guardian Life Insurance Company of ... Life Insurance Company of America Grant to Fund Treatment for Underserved ...

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Howard Gilman Foundation and the American Express Foundation Fund "The Gospel at Colonus"

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08/03/2018

... theater history. Set in the context of a black Pentecostal service , it is an exuberant re-telling of Sophocles' classic .....

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NY State Health Foundation Releases New Resource on Health Behaviors in New York and the United States

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12/05/2018

... factors and health behaviors provides important indicators for population health outcomes. The snapshot uses nationally ... System (BRFSS). Many states use the BRFSS data as a tool for targeting health...

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New York Health Foundation

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New NYSHealth Report Examines Growing Community Health Centers Across New York State

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12/07/2018

... primary care capacity across the State both to care for the newly insured and to ensure a strong safety net for those who remain uninsured. Community health centers ...

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Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $4.9 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program

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02/07/2022

Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $4.9 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program Gerstner ... gerstner.org . Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $4.9 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program ...

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Housing and Homelessness

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The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels

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03/13/2014

... was not a household word when it became a central strategy for ending international cooperation with South Africa's .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley

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04/16/2014

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, housed on the campus of the ... areas that facilitate collaboration…. Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley ...

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Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans

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09/18/2014

... with ObamaCare Plans A majority of people who signed up for ObamaCare over the last year are happy with their plans, ... survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit policy group . Another 61 percent believed...

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Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

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10/19/2014

... cancer. Oddly, this wasn’t obvious to one important group : philanthropists.... Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink ...

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