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NYS Health Launches Challenge Calling for NY Residents to Submit Ideas to Create Healthier Communities

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06/10/2016

... in neighborhoods across New York City and New York State to open their minds and come up with ideas that will ... to their backyards. In partnership with the New York State Health Foundation, the nonprofit In...

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Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy

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08/22/2016

... the conflict can be contained, the meltdown of the Syrian state has sent wave after wave of chaos into the wider world ... like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel and the threat of state meltdown and regional...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

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09/29/2016

... Initiative has announced it is building a memorial in the state capital of Montgomery devoted to 4,075 blacks its ... Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state -sanctioned segregation -...

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Commonwealth Fund: Why and How to Avoid High-Risk Pools for Americans with Preexisting Conditions

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06/05/2017

The American Health Care Act (AHCA)—the U.S. House of Representatives’ bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—would allow states to apply for waivers to reduce existing consumer protections and provide funding for states to set up...

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Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, including Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and Govs. Andrew M. Cuomo and Chris Christie, to discuss the future of a...

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Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns

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09/21/2017

... Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns Manhattan state Sen. Brad Hoylman has written a letter to state regulators expressing concern that the company ... customers. Hoylman in a letter dated Sept. 18...

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Gender Justice

New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries

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09/25/2017

President Trump on Sunday issued a new order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing threats to national security posed by letting...

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Senators Revise Health Bill in Last-Ditch Effort to Win Votes

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09/25/2017

... extra money for an unnamed “high-spending low-density state ,” a last-minute change seemingly aimed at Alaska and ... no. Mr. Cassidy circulated a table on Sunday showing the state -by- state...

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Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap

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09/25/2017

... Council and the underrepresentation of women in local and state governments nationwide. They are correct in their ... large city governments are comprised of women; at the state level, women also make up about...

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Cuomo Says Special Session Might Be Necessary to Allocate Public Hospital Funding

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10/04/2017

... Public Hospital Funding Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the state would be holding onto federal funding that helps offset ... funding by the end of the year, a special session of the state Legislature might be...

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... to Eastern Europe; and a requirement that every EU member state pay 9 million Hungarian forint ($33,772) in mandatory state aid per immigrant... OSF Denounces Hungarian ...

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... effort to make the Certificate of Need process in New York State more consumer-friendly and transparent, so that ... residents are in the room and able to comment when the state authorizing body is considering...

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NYS Health Foundation and The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Release New Reports on Strengthening Nutrition Education for New Yorkers

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01/17/2018

... very little research has been done on how New York State and New York City currently support, implement, and ... that currently support nutrition education at the City and State levels. Both the City report...

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16 Feb 2022

Haitians and Afghans in Crisis: Lessons for Rapid Resettlement

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Join us for a discussion of how advocacy groups and service providers are serving new arrivals, the relevant government policies and programs, and the role of philanthropy in helping those who arrive today—and improving the infrastructure for those...

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Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

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02/15/2013

... again. As a substitute teacher in Boston during the 1970s school -busing crisis there, Orlando Bagwell was attacked by a ...

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The Role of Philanthropy and Advocacy in Healthcare Reform Implementation

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02/21/2013

... York, New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Duke University’s Center for ...

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New York Life Foundation Awards $1 Million to Comfort Zone Camp

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07/13/2013

... success strategy and goal of helping reduce the high school dropout rate by half in the next five years... New ...

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William T. Grant Foundation Awards $1.7 Million for Research to Benefit Youth

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08/03/2013

The seven grants totaling nearly $1.7 million are in support of researchers and organizations working to understand and improve the environments in which youth spend their time.

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UJA-Federation of New York’s John Ruskay addresses Yeshiva University’s commencement and awarded honorary doctorate

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05/23/2014

... on May 22nd and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the school . Ruskay, who is stepping down June 30th after 15 years ...

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