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As Global Obesity Rises, Teasing Apart Its Causes Grows Harder

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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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Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... NCDs don’t receive nearly as much attention from global health funders as high-profile dread diseases like malaria, ... countless lives. The question now is whether more global health funders will turn their...

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

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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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Enabling Sustainable Investment in Social Interventions: A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools

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02/02/2018

... options available for states to address social drivers of health . It is widely recognized that social factors, such as ... and lack of healthy food, have a substantial impact on health outcomes and spending,...

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Laura Rossi, Executive Director, Westchester Community Foundation, Featured in 2022 Westchester Power 100 List by City & State

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09/28/2022

... including government officials, business executives, health care leaders, nonprofit heads, union chiefs, ... the Ossining and Peekskill school districts for a mental health outreach project in the aftermath of...

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Kristen M. Ruff

... Forum, New York Women's Foundation, Fund the People and Equity in the Center, and serves on the board of NEO .....

Rico Blancaflor

... issues. He brings to PNY a deep knowledge of racial equity work, a set of outstanding facilitation skills, and a ...

Jeremy Tennenbaum Joins Altman Foundation as Chief Financial Officer

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06/04/2012

... early part of his career at Salomon Brothers, first as an equity analyst and later as an investment banker. Tennenbaum ...

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The Wallace Foundation to Support Study of Whether and How Community Institutions Can Work Together on Education Reform

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03/18/2014

... Rebell and Jessica Wolff, of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, which focuses on expanding ...

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The Wallace Foundation to Support Study of Whether and How Community Institutions Can Work Together on Education Reform

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03/18/2014

... Rebell and Jessica Wolff, of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, which focuses on expanding ...

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A Coalition to Move de Blasio Along on Bus Rapid Transit

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06/09/2014

... transit coalition frames better bus service as a social equity issue. More than 875,000 New Yorkers commute more than ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies

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07/24/2014

... outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial- equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in Education ...

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F.B. Heron Foundation Leads Foundations Toward 100 Percent Impact Investment

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07/02/2015

... believe that all investments (spanning the range of debt, equity , cooperative shares, warrants, and hybrid instruments) ...

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Ford's Walker Featured in NonProfit Times 'Power & Influence Top 50'

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08/04/2015

... influential of the past 12 months. In one week alone, equity ruled the day with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ...

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Bessemer Trust Among Experts Tapped by NYTimes for Piece on Social Change Major Gifts

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05/16/2016

... change. That is why someone like Paul Salem, a private equity investor in Rhode Island, is rare. He has made two ...

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NY Women’s Foundation President and City Council Speaker Announce $20M More for Young Women’s Initiative

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05/16/2016

... Smith (Founder & Executive Director, Girls for Gender Equity ) and Dr. Danielle Moss Lee (President & CEO of the ...

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Ford Foundation's Chris Cardona on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion

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07/29/2016

... inclusion lines up with our foundation’s values about equity ... Ford Foundation's Chris Cardona on Inequity in .....

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... covered often. In one recent gift I wrote about, private equity billionaire Robert Smith gave $50 million to his alma ...

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Racial Justice Is at Heart of Brooklyn Community Foundation Shift

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12/06/2016

... by residents of the neighborhood BCF calls home. “Racial equity is core to our vision of a fair and just Brooklyn,” ...

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