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Jerome Foundation, United Memorial Medical Center Seek Nominations for Health and Humanitarian Award

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08/15/2016

... outstanding men and women whose volunteer efforts have improved the physical, emotional or spiritual well-being ... greater Genesee County area. “We are fortunate to have many caring and committed volunteers...

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

... Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the selection of eighty-four faculty scholars, ... early-career scientists at forty-three institutions who have great potential to make...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Zimmerli Art Museum's Examination of American Art Circa 1966

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10/06/2016

... addition to spotlighting revolutionary movements that now have an established presence in art history, the subjects of ... on social and political discussions from the era that have prominently re-emerged...

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Survey Supported by Ford Foundation Says Nearly Half of Young Adults Lack Retirement Savings, Pension

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10/17/2016

... pack. Forty-eight percent of all Americans aged 18 to 30 have zero in retirement savings and no access to a ... still be in school, but the trend also holds for those in their late 20s. More than 4 in 10 of...

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Difficulties Accessing Medical Records Will Soon Be Outdated, Says Commonwealth Fund

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10/21/2016

... Outdated, Says Commonwealth Fund Historically, hospitals have argued that medical records belong to the health care ... engagement, she said. Most electronic health records now have patient portals where...

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Rockefeller Study Finds Media Coverage Misses Gig Worker Concerns

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01/04/2017

... rock stars. But the largely positive wave of attention may have missed much of the downside participants have experienced. The Rockefeller Foundation paid for PR and ...

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Commonwealth Fund President Writes About Keeping Perspective During Turbulent Times

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02/07/2017

... true for younger members of our attentive public, who have not lived through, and emerged safely from, some of the dark periods we have experienced as a country... Commonwealth Fund President ...

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Surdna, JPB Foundations Provide Grants to Help Low-Income Communities Access Solar+Storage Solutions

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03/29/2017

... nonprofits and affordable housing developers have been selected to receive grants from Clean Energy ... as part of the Resilient Power Project, to build their organizational capacity on the benefits of solar...

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Supported by Sloan Foundation, Study Finds New Quantum Liquid Crystals May Play Role in Future of Computers

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04/21/2017

... Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech have discovered the first three-dimensional quantum liquid crystal—a new state of matter that may have applications in ultrafast quantum computers of the...

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Open Society Foundation Funds Program with Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees

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05/09/2017

... Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees Elmo and Big Bird have lots of experience teaching children everything from the ... education — to millions of refugee children forced from their homes in Syria, Iraq and...

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Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries

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08/18/2017

... the Sing Sing Prison Museum, which is being developed, have announced a series of public programs called ... 1825. Visitors will be invited to experience what it must have been like to be imprisoned there...

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More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer

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08/30/2017

... in South Asia Floods This Summer More than 1,000 people have died in floods across South Asia this summer, and as ... at least 41 million people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal have been directly affected by...

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After 16 Futile Years, Congress Will Try Again to Legalize ‘Dreamers’

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09/06/2017

... for legalizing young immigrants brought here illegally by their parents have tried to pass legislation to shield them from ... starts would already be daunting, but President Trump may have...

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Senate’s Obamacare Fixes Would Build on Heavy Lifting by States

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09/07/2017

... anxious insurers, tamp down rate increases and insulate their markets from the ceaseless chaos in Washington. The ... describe. Every enrollee in the nation is poised to have at least one coverage option this...

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A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis

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09/11/2017

... many opioid medications and other controlled substances have been dispensed to patients. A new analysis shows that ... reduce the overuse of narcotics — but that many states have adopted relatively weak...

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The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy

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09/12/2017

... playbook that takes weeks to write. You don’t have time for that, and you have to work with a lot of moving pieces that are going to ...

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Top White House Official to Discuss Climate Change at U.N.

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09/13/2017

... from two monster hurricanes that scientists say may have been made more ferocious by warming trends. It also ...

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Century Foundation Report: Toward a More Secure Retirement for Domestic Workers

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09/14/2017

... even more so for workers in the gig economy, who often have far fewer benefits through their work. Yet domestic workers face particularly tough ... them even less likely than others in the gig economy to...

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The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.

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09/20/2017

... 29. The report examined whether alternate strategies could have lessened the bloodshed, now in its sixth year. Museum ... they also concluded that no single American action would have guaranteed a significant...

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