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31 May 2012

Who Cares for Older Adults? Workforce Implications of an Aging Population

Thursday, May 31, 2012 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

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... for the skyrocketing number of older patients with high rates of chronic conditions, multiple medications, and ...

Eight Cities Receive Grants To Reduce Number of Uninsured Children and Families

Release Date:

07/14/2014

Eight cities received grants of up to $260,000 each from the National League of Cities (NLC) under a program funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies that seeks to enroll more children and families in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance...

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Rahsaan Harris Named President and CEO of Emma L. Bowen Foundation

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12/16/2014

EPIP Executive Director, Rahsaan Harris, will join Emma L. Bowen Foundation in 2015.

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Open Society Foundation-funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way African-American Girls are Treated at School

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11/06/2015

A new report highlights how race and gender biases held by educators and school administrators impact the educational experiences of African-American girls.

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Education

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How Do I Master That Skill? LinkedIn, Markle Want To Help

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03/18/2016

A partnership between LinkedIn and the Markle Foundation has resulted in the work-focused social network piloting a service that helps job seekers get connected with live training programs in their area.

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Workforce Development

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

How Nathan Cummings and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Are Shifting Grantmaking in the Trump Era

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05/26/2017

The Trump administration has posed a unique challenge to the liberal, and even moderate, philanthropic community.

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Commentary from Century Foundation: TrumpCare Premium Increases Mapped

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06/01/2017

The Congressional Budget Office estimated the House-passed American Health Care Act would cause premiums in the individual market to rise by 20 percent next year. The Century Foundation created a map to estimate the premium hikes that people in...

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When a Company Is Making Money From the Opioid Crisis

Release Date:

09/07/2017

Last month, a group of shareholders of one distributor strove to bring the company's goals more in line with society's.

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Even as political battles persist, more district and charter schools join partnership program

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09/29/2017

Recently, Dawn Brooks DeCosta, the principal of a traditional elementary school in Harlem, was looking for a way to boost her students’ social and emotional skills. Her search led her to an unlikely event: a charter school assembly.

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John A. Hartford Foundation Named One of Nation’s Top Funders Addressing Aging America

Release Date:

12/15/2017

... focused on affordable housing in an effort to keep poverty rates low among older people. Many of the funders that work ...

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Aging

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With Support from Gerstner and Heckscher Foundations, SUNY Announces Emergency Aid to Support Degree Completion Among Students

Release Date:

12/19/2017

... and assess the impact on retention and graduation rates moving forward." It's one of several initiatives .....

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Tax Bill Glitch Endangers Future of Newman’s Own Foundation

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01/03/2018

The Westport-based Newman’s Own Foundation was on the verge of securing a provision in the federal tax overhaul that would have spared it from an unusual 200 percent tax hike it is facing, when the Senate parliamentarian forced lawmakers to strip it...

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Newman's Own Foundation

New Report Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies Details Macro-Economic Benefits of Reducing Road Traffic Crashes

Release Date:

01/10/2018

... management and regulations have not kept pace. Death rates from traffic injuries in 2015 reached 34 per 100,000 in ...

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Community Development

International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Carnegie Corporation Funds Report Revealing 4 Actions to Improve the Future of Higher Education

Release Date:

02/07/2018

... four national priorities, including increasing completion rates and strengthening the student educational experience, ...

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New York Times Op-Ed "Good Leaders Make Good Schools" Cites Important Wallace-Commissioned Research Report

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03/13/2018

The piece examines why principals matter and cites, among other sources, work over the years by The Wallace Foundation.

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MasterCard Foundation Commits 100 million to Projects Within Its Young Africa Works Strategy

Release Date:

04/16/2018

... Africa has one of the world’s highest unemployment rates , particularly for young adults. This problem is part of ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.

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Technology

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

New Study, Supported By The Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, Finds College Brings Significant Benefits to Single Mothers and Society

Release Date:

06/06/2018

... in their success pay off. IWPR estimates that at current rates of completion, single mother graduates enrolled in ...

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Education

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Jewish Foundation for Education of Women

Markle Foundation Initiative, Skillful, Is Going Coast-to-Coast

Release Date:

07/03/2018

Skillful has helped Colorado employers discover the value of workers without college degrees and now more states are joining in this effort to transform hiring practices and workforce development.

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

MTV Plans to Partner With Ford Foundation to Create a Mobile Voting Registration Unit

Release Date:

08/20/2018

MTV plans to partner with the Ford Foundation to create a mobile unit where people can register to vote and encourage their friends to register to vote if they see they aren’t signed up. The network also plans to host events across the country on...

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Ford Foundation

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