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Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want

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12/01/2015

... of us want to live in our homes and communities as we age , and, if possible, to avoid dependence on others and ... and according to Census numbers, the population of people age eighty-five and older, which...

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Aging

The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Hilton, Tow, Surdna and Edna McConnell Clark Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth

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01/08/2016

Article highlights funders who are working to support young people who are "aging out" of foster care and give those youth the same kinds of opportunities that other youth get.

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Century Foundation Report Recommends Universal Child Allowance

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03/17/2016

... CTC. A child allowance of $2,500 for all children under age 6 (leaving intact the CTC for children age 6 and above) would lift 3.2 million children out of ...

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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

... a variety of eye disease and impairment issues, including age -related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, diabetic ... Institute, found that by 2050, 16.4 million Americans over age 40 will have VI due to...

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With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans

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05/05/2017

... for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans Americans age 50 and older who report that they have been incarcerated ... have not, according to a new national survey of Americans age 50 and older from...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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Commonwealth Fund Report: The United States Health System Falls Short

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07/17/2017

... in the U.S.—and all over the world—are living with age -related disabilities and chronic disease, placing ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum

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08/30/2017

... legacies and art holdings after Park’s death at the age of 92. (Brooks died in 1992, aged 85.) In a rare move, ...

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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

... can date back to childhood, sometimes as early as age 3. The prejudiced feelings may not be apparent to those ...

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

... Health Department. For those students in the 13 to 19 age range in New York City, the rate of gonorrhea infection ... in 2014. The infection rate of chlamydia among the same age bracket was 2,195 cases per 100...

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Nursing Home Evacuations Should Not Be “All or Nothing,” Says GSA Member in Senate Testimony

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09/21/2017

Speaking before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging today, University of South Florida professor Kathryn Hyer, PhD, MPP, FGSA, urged lawmakers to support actions that enable nursing homes and assisted living communities to better serve their...

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Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows

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10/02/2017

... their lifetimes haunts the vast majority of Americans over age 50. More than three-quarters (78 percent) of future retirees in that age group and almost two-thirds (63 percent) of those who ...

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ArtNet News Details Joan Mitchell Foundation 2017 Grant Recipients

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11/15/2017

... ethnicities, and geographic backgrounds. They range in age from 27 to 62 and come from 12 different states, ...

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24 Jan 2018

Through the Eyes of the Caregiver: “Care” Screening & Panel with Ai-jen Poo

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... — whether because of disability, disease, or advanced age — rely upon it. Tracking caregivers and their clients ...

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

Release Date:

12/11/2017

... thing, Americans are more likely to enter the 65-and-up age group with chronic diseases — heart disease, diabetes, ... the realities of our biology. That would mean pushing the age of eligibility to somewhere...

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Aging

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Rockefeller Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference

Release Date:

12/20/2017

... the subject of youth, the residents themselves ranged in age from those in their 20s to those in their 70s—with ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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17 Foundations Join Forces to Divest Fossil-Fuel Stocks

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01/30/2014

The Educational Foundation of America and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation are among the 17 foundations who have vowed to divest the fossil fuel stocks in their endowments and invest at least five percent of their assets in clean-energy companies,...

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Rockefeller Foundation Taps Skilled Workforce in Kenya

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02/17/2015

Rockefeller made the investment as part if its Digital Jobs Africa program.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman

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11/05/2015

A preschool program funded by Goldman Sachs is under scrutiny for its methods of measuring success for the students.

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Trinity Church Wall Street Provides $6.5 million in No-Interest Loans to NYC Nonprofit Organizations in Partnership with Nonprofit Finance Fund

Release Date:

08/18/2021

... arrest diversion program, and a Human Justice Training and Resources Lab. CNHJH secured funding from the Mayor’s ... Ladies of Hope Ministries, Violence Intervention Program, Women ’s Prison Association, and...

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