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NYSHF Energizes Entire Communities with Healthy Neighborhoods Fund Initiative

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02/02/2015

... haven’t really been able to invest in open spaces for people to exercise. So we’ve made this commitment to address health inequities. We know that when people live in healthier neighborhoods they do in fact...

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New York Health Foundation

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Citi and Goldman Sachs Launching Projects with NYC to Boost Women Business Owners

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03/12/2015

... mole sauce recipe so it’s good enough that people would buy it. But she hasn’t figured out how to sell ... stream of commerce. We’re going to introduce you to the people at Etsy so you can sell your mole,”...

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Commonwealth Fund Reports Millions Could Lose Coverage in Latest ACA Challenge

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04/03/2015

... Fund, a subsidy shutdown could result in 9.6 million fewer people with coverage by 2016, a 70 percent decline. The resulting adverse selection caused by healthy people leaving the risk pool could increase...

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Staying the Course: Reflections on 40 Years of Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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05/13/2015

... RBF's grantmaking programs tried, "over time, to enlarge people 's understanding of, and ability to address, ... serendipitous and systematic" approach to "helping people help...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Arcus Releases Statement Responding to United States Supreme Court Marriage Ruling

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06/26/2015

... many that are advancing full lived equality for all LGBT people everywhere." ... Arcus Releases Statement .....

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Public Policy

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LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

To Boost Job Prospects, Younger Americans Seek Dentures

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08/10/2015

... also fare worst in a health measure that can keep people from getting jobs — missing teeth. West Virginia ... have lost six or more teeth at 23%. In fact, while most people associate lost teeth and dentures...

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Workforce Development

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The Commonwealth Fund

MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab

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12/08/2015

... to design, build and test solutions intended to help people make smarter choices with their finances. It will focus on developing steps to help people build emergency, retirement and college savings, and ...

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Atlantic Announces $40M for Fellowship to Reduce International Health Disparities

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02/01/2016

... investments is to promote and enhance opportunities for people , especially in places where systemic barriers unfairly ... investments to improve access to quality health care for people in both Southeast Asia...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA

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03/08/2016

... of care than in 2010. In particular, surveys show that people with Medicaid are getting much better care than people who remain uninsured. . . WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth ...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness

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03/03/2017

... main cause of blindness for half of the 40 million or so people who cannot see. Millions of people can see today because of these efforts... Conrad N. ...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

... for the program had revoked. These include four people , all attorneys, working for the American Bar ... "the retroactive aspect of this filing reasonably causes people to be nervous." Century...

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Nathan Cummings Announces Increased Payout to Respond to ‘Extraordinary Times’

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05/03/2017

... and National Endowment for the Arts are being undermined. People are responding to these extraordinary times in ... in anti-Semitic acts. They are organizing vast groups of people who are showing up at...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis

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05/24/2017

... resulted in over 5 million Syrian refugees, 6.3 million people internally displaced, and 13.5 million people in Syria in desperate need of help. But as we've .....

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... police officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the throes of a mental health crisis in an effort ... the public and reduce use of jails and emergency rooms for people who would be better...

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The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation

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Sixty Days Into MTA's 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To Review Plans

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08/30/2017

... As if redesigning a bureaucracy that employs 70,000 people within 30 days weren’t enough, Cuomo said Lhota ... two days after a subway derailment in Harlem injured 34 people . Sixty days later, the MTA says it...

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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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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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The Staten Island Foundation

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From the Ground Up

Release Date:

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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