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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

... to double over the next 35 years. By 2050, the number of Americans with a variety of eye disease and impairment ... USC Roski Eye Institute, found that by 2050, 16.4 million Americans over age 40 will have VI...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... that we are spending too much money to put too many Americans behind bars. Our prison and jail population has ... to about 2.2 million since 1982. As of 2013, 8 million Americans —one in 40—were behind bars or...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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PhilTV This Week: Feb. 3, 2017

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02/07/2017

Featuring NY Community Trust, UJA-Federation of New York, MAC AIDS Fund, The Search for PNY's Next Public Policy Fellow.

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

The first national study of language learning in 30 years was requested from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences by a bipartisan group of members of U.S. Senate & House of Representatives.

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The Henry Luce Foundation

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Mellon Foundation

Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

... addresses the need to improve opportunities for all Americans —regardless of income, education or ethnic ... of households facing food insecurity, more than 23 million Americans living in so-called rural or...

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

Under a program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness, some student loan borrowers were supposed to be able to have the balance of their student loans forgiven after ten years of both on-time payments and eligible work in the public sector. Last...

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... as a young heiress and socialite in the 1930s and 1940s, Americans worried about a very different set of foreign ...

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Arts

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Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White

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08/30/2017

... a similarly gloomy picture. The jobless rate for black Americans is generally about twice that of white Americans , a ratio that improves only somewhat in “good” ...

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Economic Security

‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?

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09/15/2017

... proposal to vastly expand Medicare to cover all Americans , Republicans are fighting back with familiar ...

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Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving

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10/10/2017

... a simplified tax code would be a welcome change for many Americans , I join many of our nonprofit colleagues in ... why: The proposed reforms would shrink the number of Americans who claim the itemized...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Ninth Annual Fiscal Summit Will Outline Urgent Need for Fiscal Reset following Recent Tax and Spending Legislation

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05/01/2018

... we can create a sustainable fiscal path for generations of Americans . As interest rates continue to rise, ... crises, and diminishing opportunities for generations of Americans .... Peter G. Peterson Foundation...

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Civic Engagement

Economic Security

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Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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05/14/2018

The honor recognizes Tschinkel’s mathematical contributions, which focus on problems at the interface of algebraic geometry and number theory.

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With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

The land, which runs along the Blue Mountain's Kittatinny Ridge, is being acquired from Pennsylvania American Water and will eventually be turned over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for public use.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Jewish Foundation for Education of Women Supports College and University Basic Needs Insecurity: A National #RealCollege Survey Report

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05/16/2019

... Overall rates of food insecurity were higher among African Americans (58 percent) and Latinx (50 percent) than among ...

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Community Development

Jewish Foundation for Education of Women

Food Systems

Housing and Homelessness

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14 May 2015

Earning Stories for Good – Big Rewards for Your CSR Programs

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9:00am to 11:00am

... social responsibility. Explore Strategies to earn media coverage for your CSR or employee engagement programs. Making ... Using appropriate tactics to boost earned media coverage . Perfecting your pitch to...

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17 Oct 2018

Comprehensive, Long-Term Supports for NYC Foster Youth: Part III of “Helping Foster Youth Succeed” Series

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... is a follow-on session to last year's “ Helping Foster Care Youth Succeed: Skills and strategies that support the transition to adulthood " and " Helping Foster Care Youth Succeed, Part II...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Children, Youth and Families