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Listen: Commonwealth Fund President, Dr. David Blumenthal, on COVID-19 and the US Healthcare System

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05/20/2020

The following is a conversation between Dr. David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund, and Denver Frederick, the host of the Business of Giving.

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Disaster Relief

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Despite Legacy Connections, Rockefeller Family Fund Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments

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04/04/2016

The Rockefeller Family Fund has long campaigned for green energy and against carbon emissions, so its fossil fuel investments certainly did not make sense ethically, but financially. Other organizations and investors are also questioning fossil fuel...

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

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10/05/2016

When hospitals readmit aging patients more often than average, they can face stiff government penalties.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Invests in Venture to Install 1.3 Gigawatts of Renewable Electricity across Africa by 2018

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01/20/2017

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund invested in the Lekela Power platform -- a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. and Actis LLP that plans to install more than 1.3 gigawatts of renewable electricity across Africa by 2018.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Commonwealth Fund: Coverage Gains Among Lower-Income Blacks and Latinos Highlight ACA’s Successes & Areas for Improvement

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08/21/2017

The uninsured rate for lower-income working-age blacks and Latinos dropped by at least 10 percentage points between 2010, when the first Affordable Care Act coverage expansions went into effect, and 2016, according to the latest Commonwealth Fund...

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Jane Beyer Named Program Officer at Center for Evidence-based Policy and Milbank Memorial Fund

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09/09/2015

Jane Beyer will join the Center for Evidence-based Policy (CEbP) and the Milbank Memorial Fund (MMF) as Program Officer on October 5, 2015.

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Children, Youth and Families

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20 Mar 2019

Collaborative Grantmaking for Early Childhood: The Raising Childcare Fund - A Webinar Hosted by the NY Funders Alliance

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... they are learning from conversations with similar pooled funding strategies, national organizations that partner with ...

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Commonwealth Fund: Why and How to Avoid High-Risk Pools for Americans with Preexisting Conditions

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06/05/2017

... to reduce existing consumer protections and provide funding for states to set up high-risk pools or other ... Budget Office analysis of the AHCA finds that the funding it makes available to states for the high...

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The Today Show Discusses Long-Term Care with United Hospital Fund's Carol Levine

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12/11/2014

Levine offers tips for long-term care planning and the various healthcare options.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Two Hedge Fund Billionaires Donate $1M Each to Pro-Charter School Advocates

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10/21/2015

Officials at Families for Excellent Schools have declined to name the nonprofit’s funders since it was founded in 2012.

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Education

Commonwealth Fund Analysis Shows how Disastrous the Medicaid Work Requirement Would be, Given the Opioid Crisis

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01/12/2018

Kentucky anticipates the most drastic drop in Medicaid enrollment out of the 10 states with pending work requirement waivers, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.

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Commonwealth Fund President Dr. David Blumenthal Explains North-South Health Divide

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04/12/2016

As our next president sets his or her health-care agenda, an often overlooked problem deserves the White House’s attention: big gaps in the health and health care of people in different regions of the U.S.

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Measuring Well-Being in the New York Metro Area

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05/10/2012

... can we measure well-being, access and opportunity in the New York metropolitan area? At a recent Philanthropy New York session, Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis, ... We’re pleased to have them explain their...

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NYC: The New Capital of Fast-food Nation

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09/20/2017

NYC: The New Capital of Fast-food Nation NYC becomes fast-food nation The accelerated minimum-wage hike that New York state imposed on fast-food establishments has not ... Donuts are among the chains expanding...

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Food Systems

Commonwealth Fund Ranks US Health Care Last Among World's Wealthiest Nations

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10/16/2014

United States falls short on access to health care and cost of coverage.

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Commonwealth Fund: Latest Scorecard on Health System Performance Shows More Improvement Than Decline Across States

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12/09/2015

States’ health care systems improved more than they declined, and access to care expanded across the nation, The Commonwealth Fund’s latest Scorecard on State Health System Performance finds.

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