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Commonwealth Fund Survey Shows Adults Skip Doctor Visits Due to Cost

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01/01/2015

... concern across the USA, where employer plans cover 60% of working -age Americans, or about 150 million people. Coverage long considered the gold standard of health insurance now often requires...

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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

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01/07/2015

... can serve as a powerful health equalizer in the lives of those who need it most. According to the Pew Research Center, 84% of low-income adults have access to a mobile phone and 1 in 3 ...

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Philanthropy’s Response To Hurricane Sandy

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11/08/2012

Philanthropy New York is working intensively with Regional Associations throughout the ... weeks with news on resources, initiatives and stories of impact. If you know of any philanthropic...

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State Recoups $30 Million for Workers Who Failed to Receive Proper Minimum Wage

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02/05/2015

... Cuomo said today. “No one should be cheated out of their hard-earned wages, and as these numbers show, our ... ever before – which means more money stays with the hard- working men and women who earned it in...

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NoVo Foundation Celebrates International Women’s Day

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03/09/2015

... Women’s Day Every day, we are inspired by stories of amazing girls and women who are standing up to injustice ... in school, at work, or on the global stage, these acts of courage are changing the world. But...

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Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen

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04/15/2015

Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen For more than a decade now, ... or whether civilians were among those killed. Now, working with the Open...

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The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows

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04/15/2015

... graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants, announced their 2015 recipients. The thirty ... or their academic field, and were selected from a pool of 1,200 applicants. "I admire...

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Howard Gilman Foundation Helps Bring the Arts to Public School Children

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04/24/2015

The foundation has announced a $1.5 million grant to the National Dance Institute.

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Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative

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05/20/2015

Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative The ... operations, so that enhanced engagement becomes course- of -business. As part of the...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has announced a $10 million gift from the ... Cancer to launch the largest study ever of pre-treatment and drug-resistant tumors. By comparing the genome sequence of...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017 The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries,...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

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06/29/2015

Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project Brooklyn Community Foundation has announced the inaugural cohort of its Incubator Project– one of several new programs...

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Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

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07/09/2015

... over the next two years. The investment is part of JPMorgan Chase's "New Skills at Work" initiative, which ... "Jersey City is a community we are especially to be a part of ...." Jersey...

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Newman's Own Foundation Launches Fellowship Program

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08/04/2015

... Newman's Own Foundation announced its first formal class of Fellows. The innovative Newman's Own Foundation Fellowship ... is designed to expand, enhance, and diversify the pipeline of new talent...

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'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color

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09/02/2015

... Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color “There’s a myth out there that for girls and women of color, everything is fine,” said NoVo Foundation ... that role in 2014 after...

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Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects

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09/21/2015

Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects ... Tommins, Southern Connecticut market president for Bank of America, said in a statement. "We're fortunate enough to ... to our...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation Approves Three Grants Totaling More Than $3.28 Million

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09/29/2015

... $3.28 Million The John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees has approved three grants totaling more than ... million to renew and expand work to ensure that the voices of older adults and aging-expert...

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The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

... years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better understand what contributes to and impedes ... One theme that has arisen time and again is the importance of creating and nurturing an organizational culture that ... is the personality, behaviors and underlying assumptions of an organization. While culture can be understood in ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

... and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina, Mexico, ...

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