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28 Mar 2023

Philanthropy’s Voice in Policy, Practice, & Power-Shifting for Housing Justice - A Webinar Hosted by Funders Together to End Homelessness

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:15pm

... our north star, we must figure out we transform, not just reform the policies and systems that prevent people from ... juxtapositions between supporting immediate policy reform while co-creating a more...

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Housing and Homelessness

Simons Foundation Among Backers of $28 Million Autism Treatment Study

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07/29/2015

... of a collaboration among the National Institute of Mental Health , the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. ... Translational Sciences at the...

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MAC AIDS Fund Supports Efforts to Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African-American Women

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01/27/2017

... HIV than other women, and many don’t know it. So public health officials and advocates are trying to get the word out ... women, especially black women, by giving them sexual health options and also embarking...

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

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Making Measures Work For You: Outcomes and Evaluation

... that outcomes measurement should be approached with care . Hasty assumptions or over-confidence in the idea that ...

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Seven Million Fewer Uninsured Under Obamacare, Commonwealth Fund Finds

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01/15/2015

... implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to survey data released Thursday by the ...

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ASPCA Grants Nearly $1 Million for Initiatives to Encourage Pet Adoptions

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09/04/2015

... $520,000 to the County of L.A. Department of Animal Care & Control, and $400,000 to the City of L.A. Animal ...

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Animal Welfare

Commonwealth Fund Executives Write About Stressed, But Fixable ACA Marketplaces

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09/07/2016

... few weeks seem to suggest deep trouble for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplaces. Several insurance plans have ...

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United Hospital Fund Checklist Helps Patients Fight For Rights At The Hospital — And Avoid Readmission

Release Date:

10/05/2016

... A useful checklist can be found at Next Step in Care , a program of the United Hospital Fund... United ...

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Commonwealth Fund Research Cited in NYTimes Fact Check on White House OMB Claim

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03/10/2017

... deflected concerns that a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act had yet to be scored by the nonpartisan ...

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Why Ford Foundation’s $1B Announcement Matters More Than You Think, and the Blind Spot of Two-Pocket Thinking

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04/07/2017

... that “what we do for a living” and “what we really care about” live in entirely separate spheres. Two-pocket ...

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Johnson & Johnson Vision and American Academy of Optometry Foundation Announce 2017 Scholarship Recipients

Release Date:

11/03/2017

... year optometry student who best demonstrates the ideal eye care standards of practice, achievement in both academic ...

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Education

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Johnson & Johnson

The Importance of Criticizing Philanthropy

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05/12/2014

... to the causes of education, criminal justice, and pension reform . He was falsely charged with attempting to make his ...

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Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies

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07/24/2014

Forward-thinking school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can improve educational outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial-equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Education

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NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High

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11/02/2015

Climate change, inequality and a broken criminal justice system are the issues du jour, and are also, increasingly, the focus of some of the nation’s largest philanthropies.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change

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04/21/2016

In Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change, Derrick Feldmann adeptly dissects many of the social movements we've become familiar with.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

Release Date:

08/10/2017

The world of crowded jails, tense courtrooms, and cops on the beat is a far cry from the air-conditioned spaces data wonks usually inhabit. But according to Measures for Justice (MFJ), better data is key to reforming America’s hyper-localized...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Universal Deduction Bill Draws Measured Praise

Release Date:

10/13/2017

... and $4,200 for married couples. Under the Republican tax reform framework released last month, the standard deduction ...

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Open Society Foundations Commits $5 Million for Accountable Governance

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06/02/2019

The Open Society Foundations has announced a $5 million challenge grant to the Open Government Partnership in support of accountable, responsive, and inclusive governance initiatives.

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