Bloomberg’s What Works Cities Program Hits 100-City Goal
Release Date:
01/17/2018
... professionals in the network’s other cities by comparing notes, adapting ideas and adopting best practices ...
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Research Funded by Russell Sage Foundation Shows Great Recession Still Plagues Workers With Lower Lifetime Wages
Release Date:
03/13/2018
The researchers found that workers displaced in Washington during the Great Recession suffered earnings losses similar to those in Pennsylvania during the 1980s, in Connecticut during 2000-2001, and in the United States nationally between 1980 and...
Bloomberg Report Shows Mayors Concerned About Budget, Infrastructure
Release Date:
04/11/2018
Mayors across the United States increasingly are feeling pressure to address policy and funding issues that once were the purview of federal or state governments, a report from Bloomberg Philanthropies finds.
Study Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Genetic Link to Extinct Relative of Humans in Four Modern West African Populations
Release Date:
02/13/2020
UCLA computational biologists have discovered that four populations in West Africa can trace about 8% of their genetic ancestry to an archaic hominin, an extinct relative of humans that branched off from the hominid evolutionary tree more than 600,...
Simple and Fast City Contracting
Release Date:
07/17/2013
... New York City does business with thousands of nonprofit health and human services providers. We’re pleased to have ...
What BP Won’t Be Paying For—and How You Can Help
Release Date:
07/01/2010
... the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health (a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy ...
What Foundations Can Do to Help Primary Care Succeed
Release Date:
03/13/2012
... Philanthropy New York held a program, presented by our Health Policy Working Group, which focused on strengthening ...
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy
Release Date:
01/29/2013
... at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Co-Chair of the NYS Ready Commission, discuss the ...
Grantmaking with a Gender Lens: Using a Gender Analysis
Publication date:
05/2004
... has led to new thinking in fields as diverse as public health , international development, juvenile justice, and ...
More Than Money: Making a Difference with Assistance Beyond the Grant
Publication date:
12/2008
... Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Winter Park Health Foundation, and the Wallace Foundation. More Than ...
Philanthropy Must Do More to Influence Policy, Say Government Officials
Release Date:
02/13/2013
... changes on pressing issues like poverty, criminal justice, health care, the environment, and education, government ...
Hartford Foundation Awards $1.35 Million to Gerontological Society of America
Release Date:
02/10/2013
... America (GSA) is reaffirming its commitment to meeting the health care needs of older adults through adequate social ...
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Strengthening Primary Care: Aligning Healthcare with Our Needs
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, NYC
The Health Policy Working Group has identified strengthening ... and Paloma Hernandez , President & CEO of Urban Health Plan, Inc., who will draw from their experiences and ... advocacy Challenges in primary...
JPMorgan Joins Gates Foundation, Drugmakers in Fund
Release Date:
09/23/2013
... the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have formed The Global Health Investment Fund, which will back late-stage ...
CRS Now! examines No Ceilings, PNY Annual Meeting
Release Date:
05/19/2014
... gender identity, full participation in all societies, health and access to care, human trafficking, and power and ...
Cary A. Kravet Joins the Board of United Hospital Fund
Release Date:
02/23/2015
... He has been an active trustee of the North Shore-LIJ Health System since 2000, currently serving on its Executive ... Quality. He previously chaired its Committee on Community Health ; he also serves on the...
JPMorgan and Citi-Backed Program is Bridge Between Youth Unemployment, Growing Skills Gap
Release Date:
08/21/2015
... while only 2,044 people were searching for tech jobs. The health care field showed similar gaps, while 11,569 health care jobs were available, only 5,450 people were ... summer, STL Youth Jobs placed 60 young...
Commonwealth Fund Brief Documents ACA’s Costs for Low- to Moderate-Income People
Release Date:
03/18/2016
... spending limits, and copayments for a range of key health services, a new Commonwealth Fund brief finds. But ... R. Collins, Munira Gunja, and Sophie Beutel, looked at health plans available in the largest...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Contributes to Startup to Develop a Novel Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
Release Date:
08/10/2016
... National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Health , and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable ...
Sloan Foundation Contributes to Study on 'Superbugs'
Release Date:
09/07/2016
... bacteria, known as "superbugs," pose a major public health threat. Some officials have even warned of a .....