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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

... admitted to me that she “can’t stand to be around fat people .” Her reaction is almost visceral, and it prompts her to avoid social and professional contact with people who are seriously overweight. Although...

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Children, Youth and Families

Executive Director of the Staten Island Foundation to be Honored by City & State NY Media Company

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09/05/2017

... & State for a cocktail reception to mix and mingle with people from the borough and people who helped shape the borough. Executive Director of ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Staten Island Foundation

From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

... the real, micro-level needs of communities. What’s more, people rarely get to choose the projects and programs that ... marginalization and inequality for the rural poor. Some people have rightly attributed...

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

... are the three most generous donors among the 10 richest people in America, according to new analysis by The Chronicle ... Pledge, an effort to encourage the world’s richest people to contribute most of their...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Despite Washington Drama, Pace of Health System Change Accelerates

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10/06/2017

... jargon can be thick, but the phrase just means keeping people healthy. And how do you keep people healthy? To use more jargon, you address the “social ...

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Health

TED Talk: Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect

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11/14/2017

... of procedural justice. “It’s a concept that says if people perceive that they are treated fairly and with dignity ... of Newark Community Solutions suggests that by addressing people respectfully, using plain...

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Justice Reform

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The Center for Court Innovation

Atlantic Philanthropies and Ford Foundation Funded Lynching Memorial and Slavery Museum Sets April Opening

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11/14/2017

... a private nonprofit that provides legal representation to people who cannot afford it, with a special emphasis on death row prisoners, juveniles and people they believe were wrongly convicted... Atlantic ...

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Social Justice

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Ford Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

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12/11/2017

... by the Commonwealth Fund, included more than 23,000 people from 11 developed countries, and revealed that ... which aren’t curable but could have been headed off had people gotten better care earlier. Yet...

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Aging

Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers

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02/02/2018

... of the disease, and the same species have been found in people who develop a sporadic form of colon cancer. A ... colon cancer, a disease that kills more than 50,000 people each year in the U.S. and is on the...

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Health

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JPMorgan Chase Releases 2017 Corporate Responsibility Report

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04/26/2018

... need to expand access to opportunity and help more people move up the economic ladder. Through our proven model ... its model for driving inclusive growth to help more people climb the economic ladder...

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Civic Engagement

Community Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Alisha Williams to Join Arcus as Program Officer of Social Justice Program

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06/19/2018

... economic disparities impacting low-income and poor LGBTQ people ... Alisha Williams to Join Arcus as Program Officer of ...

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Arcus Foundation

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

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10/19/2018

... survey, of some of the country’s most seriously ill people , found that even with health insurance, more than a ... that all of us may face: Because the estimated 40 million people in this population visit...