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Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants Program

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03/27/2015

... classes that improve knowledge and skills about the health benefits of fresh produce; Cultivating and/or ...

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PHI Granted $50,000 Award to Commemorate Retirement of President of John A. Hartford Foundation

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07/15/2015

... widely credited with overseeing the private philanthropy’ s expanding commitment to aging and health . The John A. Hartford Foundation’ s Board of Trustees gave Dr. Rieder the opportunity to...

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Columbia University School of Nursing to Become New Home of the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare

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11/17/2015

... at Columbia University. It will reside in Columbia’ s School of Nursing via an $11.1 million, 10-year grant to the University that underscores the Jonas Center’ s enduring commitment to the future of the...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Both 'Private Option' and Traditional Medicaid Expansions Improved Access to Care

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01/06/2016

... This Commonwealth Fund–supported article in Health Affairs examines the experiences of low-income adults ...

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Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)

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01/07/2016

... The Great Recession delivered a body blow to our country’ s financial equilibrium, and only after years of painfully ... make financially responsible decisions and managing one’ s credit and debt are skills...

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

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02/03/2016

... of researchers who generated stem cells from a patient' s skin cells and then repaired the damaged gene, RPGR, using ... the corrected tissue had been derived from the patient’ s own cells, it could...

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Josiah Macy Foundation Supports Project in Integrated Care for Psychologists & Doctors

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02/03/2016

... surgery departments, her job is to improve care by helping health -care providers communicate more effectively with ... is to boost efficiency so they don't get burned out by day' s end. . . With a...

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Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

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02/18/2016

... gene, neuromedin U (Nmu), also seems to serve as nature' s stimulant--fish lacking the gene take longer to wake up in ... Cindy Chiu (PhD '14), a former graduate student in Prober' s lab, and...

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15 Jun 2016

CFF Annual Gathering

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 -

5:00pm to 7:00pm

... funder” to join us! Whether your focus is on hunger, health , education, food chain workers, youth engagement, ... and updates from the field. View pictures from last year' s Annual Gathering . We are...

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Commonwealth Fund's Blumenthal on Patient Difficulties Accessing Medical Records

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09/09/2016

Commonwealth Fund' s Blumenthal Quoted by NYT on Patient ... paper, assuming they still exist at all. (Mrs. Clinton’ s pediatrician is unlikely to still be alive, and records of ... said David Blumenthal, a...

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NYSHealth Releases Survey Results on NYC Voters' Opinions on Universal Free School Lunch

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04/19/2017

... 2018 budget, despite its exclusion from Mayor de Blasio' s Preliminary Budget. As legislators debate the City' s budget in the weeks ahead, a strong majority of voters ... levels can improve children...

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New York Health Foundation

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Addresses Technology Gap in Rural Healthcare

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04/28/2017

... from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust’ s Rural Healthcare Program. Helmsley has awarded Providence ... images, allowing medical staff to quickly determine health status and course of...

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Commentary from Century Foundation: TrumpCare Premium Increases Mapped

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06/01/2017

... Budget Office (CBO) estimated the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) would cause premiums in the individual ... market to rise by 20 percent next year. To put CBO’ s projected premium increase into...

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AARP, Commonwealth Fund Release State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Seniors

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06/15/2017

... people and adults with disabilities, according to AARP’ s new state scorecard released today. The report, Picking Up ... on their own because of physical, cognitive, or chronic health conditions. The types of...

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14 Dec 2017

Leveraging Small Grants for Big Impact - Webinar

Thursday, December 14, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... impact with their relatively small grants. Whether it’ s health care, education, or the environment, the foundations ...

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

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08/15/2017

... they protect plants against disease, and they confer health benefits and are used in the food and drug industries. ... was poorly understood. Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann' s Plant and Environmental...

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