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Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

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Lori Evans Bernstein Joins Board of United Hospital Fund

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06/29/2015

... Bernstein has been elected to the United Hospital Fund’ s board of directors. Ms. Evans Bernstein is co-founder ... care delivery system operations and health services and policy research. In the public sector...

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Two Views on the Failure of Policing

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07/16/2015

... issue of policing in black communities. Alice Goffman’ s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is a work of ... at the University of Wisconsin), and Jill Leovy’ s Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in...

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Justice Reform

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Jessie Smith Noyes At Top of the List of Family Foundations Who Fund Social Justice Work

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10/07/2015

... of Foundation Center data on the thousand largest U. S . foundations, the report, Families Funding Change: How ... of grassroots advocacy, community organizing, and public policy change work during that period...

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Critics of Health Insurer Mergers Urge States to Act; Commonwealth Fund Quoted

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12/03/2015

... in Pennsylvania that was blocked in 2009 by that state' s former insurance commissioner, Joel Ario. Eric Schneider, senior vice president for policy and research at the Commonwealth Fund, told Bloomberg...

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Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings

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12/09/2015

... Washington wonk career path. After earning a master’ s in public policy from Georgetown and a Ph.D. in political science from ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)

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01/06/2016

Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’ s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations) It ... is increasing, and the middle class is shrinking. That’ s in addition to the long-standing, deep inequalities...

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New Board Members for Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

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01/26/2016

... Efrain Escobedo, vice president, Civic Engagement & Public Policy at the California Community Foundation; and Carlos ... secretary. Ted Wang, director of Unbound Philanthropy’ s U. S ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Immigration

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Arabella Advisors Hires Managing Director of Advocacy, Scott Nielsen

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02/04/2016

... .” Going forward, Scott will lead Arabella’ s team in partnering with institutional, family, and ... and lay the groundwork for long-term, transformational policy change. Arabella Advisors Hires Managing...

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The Daphne Foundation Appoints Yvonne Moore to Its Board of Trustees

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04/28/2016

... School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at the New School. She has completed post-graduate ... in Poland. She is also a trustee of the New York Women’ s Foundation, Philanthropy New York...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Spearheads Initiative to Develop a National Blueprint for Women’s Economic Agendas

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05/06/2016

... Initiative to Develop a National Blueprint for Women’ s Economic Agendas The push for an increase in the minimum ... policies must address the full spectrum of women’ s lives, including access to comprehensive...

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Gender Justice

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United Hospital Fund's Jim Tallon to Step Down in Second Half of 2017

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06/23/2016

United Hospital Fund' s Jim Tallon to Step Down in Second Half of 2017 Jim Tallon ... we will find another exceptional person to build on Jim’ s and UHF’ s impressive work to build a more...

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NY Community Trust Teams Up with Muslim-American Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes

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08/09/2016

... including New York. More than 80 percent of the media’ s coverage of Muslims is negative, according to reports from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and surveys show that nearly half .....

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The New York Community Trust

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“Repeal and Replace” Gives States More Control over Healthcare Market

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01/27/2017

... promoting the sale of policies across state lines. The U. S . does have some version of this in place right now, since ...

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Bloomberg Fact Checks NYTimes on Climate Change

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03/20/2017

... “ Trump Using Detroit as Stage for Loosening Obama’ s Fuel Economy Standards ” ( nytimes.com , March 15) ... wisdom. The article cited experts who claimed that policy rollbacks by the Trump administration “...

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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 ... Access Hospitals in the Rural Healthcare Program’ s seven-state funding region. Capital...

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Ford Foundation Hires Detroit Native, Kevin Ryan, as Program Officer for its New Detroit Office

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05/31/2017

... out," Ford Foundation President Darren Walker told Crain' s . “I think it’ s important because having someone close to the ground, ... speech Thursday at the Detroit Regional Chamber' s...

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Housing and Homelessness

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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 ... Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Director, AARP Public Policy Institute. “The proposed...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse

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06/27/2017

... An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse Great Britain’ s exit from the European Union followed by the unexpected victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 U. S . presidential election has sent shock waves throughout...

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Seeking Just & Sustainable Communities: Surdna Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $14 Million

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07/26/2017

... Second-quarter grants were awarded in the foundation' s focus areas of strong local economies, sustainable ... through economic inclusion strategies; the New York Women' s Foundation, which will...

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