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03 May 2018

New York Aging Funders - Spring Meeting

Thursday, May 3, 2018 -

2:30pm to 4:00pm

... the program area of healthy aging and services for older adults . Philanthropy New York members funding or interested ... knowledge of: (1) current and emerging needs among older adults and the organizations...

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Issue-Based

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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Aging

Wallace Foundation Invests $30 Million to Strengthen Supervisors Of School Principals

Release Date:

06/24/2014

... overlooked supervisor position has emerged as central to improving principals’ performance,” said Wallace ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Partners with Lumina Foundation to Address Racism on College Campuses

Release Date:

12/11/2017

The Lumina Foundation has announced grants totaling $2.5 million in support of community-building efforts designed to promote understanding, tolerance, and healing on college and university campuses. The foundation also will partner with Rockefeller...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”

Release Date:

12/20/2017

In an interview with the Funder’s Forum, Wallace Foundation President Will Miller explains the “unified approach” that underlies the foundation’s initiatives and describes how a focus on continuous improvement fits into this.

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The Wallace Foundation

Moving Interprofessional Education into the Mainstream of Health Professions Education

Release Date:

06/22/2012

... education—when students from different health care professions learn together during their training in ...

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Insights

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Philanthropy Must Do More to Influence Policy, Say Government Officials

Release Date:

02/13/2013

... on pressing issues like poverty, criminal justice, health care , the environment, and education, government officials ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Public Policy

Funding Area

Social Justice

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Philanthropy New York

"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs

Release Date:

07/28/2014

... "eye-popping" prices of new drugs from driving health care costs so high that other societal needs suffer, write ... would create huge new challenges in balancing high health care costs against other...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Commonwealth Fund Finds Insurers Selling More of Their Individual Health Plans in ACA Marketplaces

Release Date:

06/02/2016

... health insurance exchanges are the core of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) insurance reforms, but insurance markets ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Hospitals: We Want Billions Back if Obamacare Dismantled

Release Date:

02/10/2017

... message for Washington: if you dismantle the Affordable Care Act, we want the billions in funding we received before ...

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CVS Makes Blockbuster Aetna Bid

Release Date:

10/27/2017

... Amazon.com Inc. amid a continuing reordering of the health- care industry. CVS has made a proposal to buy the health ...

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ASPCA Steps in to Rescue Piglets, Llamas, Cats, Dogs From Mendocino Complex Fire

Release Date:

08/09/2018

... Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) joined members of Lake County Care and Control to rescue and shelter more than 2,500 ... pets or request rescues can contact Lake County Animal Care & Control at (707) 263-0278...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Animal Welfare

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ASPCA

Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for Programs and Melinda Abrams Promoted to Senior Vice President

Release Date:

07/16/2019

... at Johnson & Johnson. In that role, she focused on health care delivery system and payment reform in the U.S. and health care systems and reform in emerging markets. Prior to that ... a special assistant...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Commonwealth Fund

The Post-Copenhagen Funding Landscape: Thoughts from Rachel Leon and Terry Odendahl

Release Date:

02/12/2010

... global south, in the last 17 years. These advisors are our primary strategists and decision-makers. We estimate that at ... such as oil exploration and mining. According to the World Resources Institute,...

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All Funders

Education Tech Nonprofit Launches with Gates, Carnegie Support

Release Date:

02/06/2013

... personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student by improving the effectiveness, variety and affordability of ... personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student by improving the effectiveness,...

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Technology

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

MetLife Foundation, Sesame Workshop Launch Financial Knowledge Program

Release Date:

11/22/2013

PND reported that the MetLife Foundation and Sesame Workshop have announced a five-year, $20 million partnership to improve financial knowledge and strategies among low- and moderate-income families around the world.

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Children, Youth and Families

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MetLife

Bloomberg Philanthropies' Global "To Do" List Has Familiar Look

Release Date:

08/23/2014

... levels in Mexico; reducing traffic in Rio de Janeiro; improving road safety in India and Kenya; and preventing ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Environment and Climate Change