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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds People May Be Choosing the Wrong Obamacare Plan

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11/06/2015

... new elements that can heighten the confusion: Consumers have to navigate four different levels of plans, determine what subsidies they’re eligible for based on their income and calculate what plan would work...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey: Healthcare Unaffordable for Many Even With Insurance

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11/20/2015

... for Many Even With Insurance More Americans have health insurance now than at any time in the past ... which is the most common form of coverage in the country, have trouble affording their...

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Woodruff Foundation Reflects on Its First Decade

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02/11/2016

... Woodruff Foundation was created to ensure that our troops have positive returns home. In the decade since Bob's injuries, much has changed and we have evolved with the needs of our veterans. Our injured...

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Citi Foundation Gives $20M to Accelerate Economic Opportunity in Six U.S. Cities

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05/18/2016

... Foundation announced today that 40 nonprofit organizations have been selected as inaugural recipients of the Community ... initiative to support visionary nonprofit organizations in their efforts to establish...

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U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance

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05/31/2016

... wouldn’t consider any other line of work and have personally invested themselves and their families in their businesses. While there are distinct ... found what worries entrepreneurs most is...

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Bank of America Private Bank

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

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07/15/2016

... in the last decade, almost two-thirds of white Americans have said that blacks are treated fairly by the police, and four out of five whites have said that black children have the same chance...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize

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09/07/2016

... a mentor in the pharmaceutical industry and will present their work to scientific and business audiences. Applicants must have between 2 to 8 years of experience running their own...

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RFPs Etc

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New York Community Trust Weighs in on Distribution of Post-Trump Donations to Nonprofits

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02/06/2017

... Community Trust, wrote in an email that, “Although we have heard no reports that community organizations in New York City have received significant increases in cash donations, we understand that many of them...

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The New York Community Trust

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It

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03/09/2017

... cannot just rely on manmade, engineered systems . . . you have to have a more resilient system that has redundancy and multiple ... resilience officer. "The second thing is that we really have...

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Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access

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05/08/2017

... fallen from 41 million to 27 million. Many prior studies have examined the relationship between insurance coverage and access to care. Virtually all have found that people with health insurance, whether...

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families

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08/25/2017

... families in nonexpansion states. For families that did have some out-of-pocket spending, spending levels were lower ... in Medicaid expansion states were also much less likely to have catastrophically high...

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Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids

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08/29/2017

... Rehabilitation Center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Their complaints range widely, from specific problems such as ... such as fibromyalgia. By the time patients enroll, many have tried just about...

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‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector

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08/29/2017

... “It doesn’t matter. Ethiopians don’t care about their children anyway.” “I know of cases where individuals have allegedly been chosen for a role because of their race, and are then expected...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering

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09/07/2017

... Volunteering ver the past decade, businesses of all kinds have become much more socially aware and active. In 2015, ... than 50 percent of companies now channeling the talents of their employees to nonprofit...

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A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars

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09/11/2017

... scroll through Facebook and want to help? You don’t even have to open a new tab. Many of you may have seen the prompts from Google and Facebook to donate to Hurricane Harvey recovery. What you may not ...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... It projects that, if current household wealth trends (as have occurred between 1983 and 2013) continue indefinitely ... into the future, by 2053 the median Black household would have a net worth of zero—...

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

... pegged at $81 billion. Mr. Gates and his wife, Melinda, have given 22 percent of their wealth to charity in the past 17 years. The three have a close association. Mr. Buffett pledged more...

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Opinion: Construction Safety Bill Would Hurt Minority Workers

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09/26/2017

... City Council approval. Some recent op-eds and statements have claimed that the only opponents of Intro 1447-C are ... including those living in public housing. For months, I have been working with other NYCHA...

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Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

... secure a minimum standard of living. Variants of the idea have bubbled up for centuries, and in recent decades, several localities have adopted versions: In the 1970s, for instance, Alaska ... state to commit...

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