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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs

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01/06/2017

... -- subsidies that help low- and moderate-income people pay for coverage and Medicaid expansion -- and that Congress ...

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With Support from Pershing Square and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations, New Research Finds that Behavioral ‘Nudges’ Offer a Cost-Effective Policy Tool

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06/08/2017

... in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “The changes in behavior ...

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning ... zoning that banned apartment buildings in areas designated for single-family homes, often adding minimum...

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Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis

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08/29/2017

... Repairing the subways, closing Rikers, rescuing failing schools – it can seem like New York’s most insurmountable ... the inequitable distribution of city facilities and called for investment in a long-term...

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The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy

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09/27/2017

... at Baylor College of Medicine and the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise, of residents of Lowndes County, ... that more than a third of those sampled tested positive for traces of hookworm. Admittedly, the...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria

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10/05/2017

... mosquito resistance to the parasite would reduce the need for repeated, continuous use of other malaria control ...

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The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

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10/06/2017

... refugee population, they are disproportionately targeted for removal. The Pew Research Center reports that, in 2016, ... refugee population, they are disproportionately targeted for removal. A report by the...

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Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

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11/02/2017

... led by UW’s Shyam Gollakota has demonstrated a method for encoding digital data, including ID tags and security ... was presented last week in Quebec City at the Association for Computing Machinery’s User...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria

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02/16/2018

... Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria In separate studies, ... Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health report successes for highly promising...

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Aetna Foundation President Discusses What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis

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06/29/2018

... the Opioid Crisis In 2015, our life expectancy dropped for the first time since the height of the AIDS epidemic. ... score high on social determinants like clean air, good schools , and walkability are...

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Commonwealth Fund Partners with New York Times and Harvard to Analyze Financial Reality of Being Sick

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10/19/2018

... Their experiences may serve as an early warning system for problems that all of us may face: Because the estimated ...

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Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes

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11/07/2018

... marine microbial communities.” That’s happy news for the thousands of sea fauna, including whale sharks, manta ...

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The New York Community Trust Grants $4.8 Million to Invest in a Fairer, More Equitable New York

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04/08/2019

... easy to fix,” says Shawn Morehead, vice president for grants at The Trust. “Addressing issues like climate change and equity in our schools requires long-term investment and a willingness to ... are invited to...

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The Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Ariel Zwang to Board of Trustees

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11/17/2021

The Revson Foundation has announced Ariel Zwang’s election to the Board of Directors, effective October 26, 2021.

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Laura Rossi, Executive Director, Westchester Community Foundation, Featured in 2022 Westchester Power 100 List by City & State

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09/28/2022

... $160,000 to the Ossining and Peekskill school districts for a mental health outreach project in the aftermath of the ...

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Recording: 2025 Financial Series: Reframing Financial Due Diligence

... discussion on revising language, practice, and purpose for a values-aligned and grantee-centered process in a ... the need to recalibrate their business models and plan for previously unexpected scenarios. In...

Charles H. Hamilton to Retire from Bessemer Trust

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05/01/2013

... Fellow at Philanthropy New York. Previously, he served for ten years as Executive Director of The Clark Foundation, ... York City-focused grantmaking programs in social services, education and other areas. His...

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28 Feb 2012

Thinking Out of the Box: Meeting Challenges with Creative Leadership

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7:00am to 12:00pm

... "BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium VI" presented by the Education and Research Foundation of the Better Business ... President, American Express Foundation . Designed for Nonprofit and foundation...

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Capital One to Invest $150 Million to Help Close Digital Skills Gap

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03/10/2015

... organizations to prepare members of the U.S. workforce for twenty-first century jobs; enable small business owners ... tools and resources designed to help them invest for the future. According to new research...

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