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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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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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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

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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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Ford Foundation

Universal Deduction Bill Draws Measured Praise

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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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Civic Engagement

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Ending Child Marriage in a Generation: What Research is Needed?

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05/13/2014

... but all too often the devastating effects on girls’ health , education, earning power and independence are the ... from the foundation’s Youth Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Rights initiative, this report...

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Gender Justice

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Ford Foundation

Red States Have the Most to Lose from Supreme Court Obamacare Ruling

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03/12/2015

Citing Commonwealth Fund research DailyKos says people living in Republican-led states will suffer the most if the Supreme Court strikes down subsidies to people buying insurance on the federal exchange.

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

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10/27/2015

... shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world are increasingly reassigning ... nurses with advanced training. For a study published in Health Policy, researcher...

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

... Cities and Towns to Get Healthier A major public- health organization and a local government group are teaming ... goal: a rise in healthy communities. The American Public Health Association (APHA) and the...

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Lois Quam Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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07/11/2016

... of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, focusing on global health partnerships, and launched President Barack Obama’s Global Health Initiative at the Department of State, serving as ...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014

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07/20/2016

... Plans in 2014 It was hard to make money selling Obamacare health insurance in the first year. Next year might not be ... Obamacare plans, as well inaccurate guesses about the health of potential customers led...

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Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures

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08/22/2016

... Obamacare Marketplace Pressures Recent decisions by giant health insurers to pull back from Obamacare exchanges across ... to the program that has helped millions of people gain health coverage. Sara Collins,...

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

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09/07/2017

... While Congress was busy bickering over repealing the health law, officials in red and blue states worked ... from the “disaster” President Donald Trump and his top health officials describe. Every enrollee in...

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Giving Back for the Gift of Sight

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01/15/2014

Barbara and Donald Jonas discuss their support of new stem cell research in Columbia University Medical ...

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