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

Release Date:

06/05/2017

... for Americans with Preexisting Conditions The American Health Care Act (AHCA)—the U.S. House of Representatives’ ... reduce costs for other people who buy their own health plans in the individual market...

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Health

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Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... goals, a set of 17 targets to improve health , the economy, the environment, and human rights ... mortality, maternal mortality, HIV rates, and 14 other health and economic measurements related to the goals...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... top three industries that added jobs were: education and health services, with 1,700; health care and social assistance, with 1,600; and leisure ...

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Workforce Development

New Push to Replace Obamacare Reflects High Stakes For Republicans

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... would give states control over billions in federal health -care spending, repeal the law’s key mandates and ... program for the poor, elderly and disabled. It would slash health -care spending more deeply and...

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As Global Obesity Rises, Teasing Apart Its Causes Grows Harder

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... Grows Harder Asking overweight strangers about their health and eating habits is always going to be tricky for a ... that Andrew Jacobs, a reporter with The New York Times’s health desk, visited to report an...

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International/Foreign Affairs

The Commonwealth Fund Supports Tool to Encourage Patient Contribution to Clinical Notes

Release Date:

12/08/2017

... clinical notes and care plans within a shared electronic health record. Encouraging patients to help write and add ... of Internal Medicine. In that research, doctors at UCLA Health and Beth Israel Deaconess...

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Teagle Foundation Announces Judith Shapiro as New President

Release Date:

04/02/2013

... fulfillment.” Richard Morrill began his presidency in 2010 , and has served on the Foundation’s Board since 1989. ...

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New President Selected to Lead the William T. Grant Foundation

Release Date:

03/01/2013

... Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences in 2010 . He chaired the Independent Advisory Panel of the ...

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Alisa Doctoroff and Linda Mirels Nominated to Lead UJA-Federation of New York

Release Date:

03/01/2013

... which raised a total of $188 million, surpassing the 2010 campaign by more than $7 million. She previously chaired ...

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31 Jan 2011

Promise Neighborhoods: What Is the Promise and How Can Foundations Help It Shine Through?

Monday, January 31, 2011 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... interested funders. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION In late September 2010 , the federal Department of Education (ED) announced ...

13 Dec 2010

School Climate: What Is It? And Why Does It Matter?

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 2:00pm to Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 5:00pm

... Supportive School , New York City Department of Education ( 2010 ). PRESENTERS Ken Futernick , Director of WestEd’s ...

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30 Mar 2011

Trend or Tipping Point: Arts and Social Change Grantmaking

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 -

8:30am to 11:00am

A Philanthropy New York Members Briefing, sponsored by the Nathan Cummings Foundation , Open Society Foundations , and Surdna Foundation , with Lambent Foundation and CrossCurrents Foundation . WHO SHOULD ATTEND : Private and public...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Xavier de Souza Briggs as Vice President of Economic Opportunity and Assets

Release Date:

11/01/2013

... an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty” (Oxford, 2010 ), won the best book of the year from the National ...

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Economic Security

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The Rise of Women (in Philanthropy)

Release Date:

09/24/2012

By Samantha Beinhacker , Managing Director, Arabella Advisors Last March, in celebration of Women’s History Month, Arabella hosted a webinar panel on “ Women and Philanthropy ” to dig into the ways that women are making a...