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Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for Programs and Melinda Abrams Promoted to Senior Vice President

Release Date:

07/16/2019

... Liz Fowler, a leading health policy expert in both the public and private sectors, will join the Commonwealth Fund ... Chair, Senator Max Baucus, served as Vice President of Public Policy and External Affairs...

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Simons Foundation Helps Scientists Share and Review Findings

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01/06/2015

... share their findings before peer review, now holds more than 1 million research articles. The repository, ... half a million manuscripts, but has taken just 6 more to double its holdings. Researchers now...

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Major Research Groups Are Given Low Marks on Disclosing Donors

Release Date:

05/06/2014

... one star out of a possible five in the survey, to be made public on Wednesday, an advance copy of which was provided to ...

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Foundations Should Push for Disclosure of Corporate ‘Welfare’ Deals

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12/18/2014

... accounting change could be a major boon in helping channel public attention and advocacy to stem the loss of billions of ... go into company coffers, instead of helping the poor and providing education, health...

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Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Science

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04/22/2015

This year’s 32 winners were chosen from a pool of more than 300 candidates.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Commonwealth Fund President Writes About Keeping Perspective During Turbulent Times

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02/07/2017

... be particularly true for younger members of our attentive public , who have not lived through, and emerged safely from, ...

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Health

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At James Blake Trial, Judge Invokes Law Shielding Police Records

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09/21/2017

... the city’s interpretation of a state law that bars public disclosure of the personnel records of police ... boiling point last year when the Police Department stopped providing disciplinary records to...

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Justice Reform

How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... tracking delays on the subway as well as informing the public about the reasons for the problems. It is an ...

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Community Development

Ramona Gadsden

... administration, office management, finance, and human resources . Ramona is a native New Yorker who was born and ... House, a nonprofit organization serving 20,000 people in more than 19 sites throughout the...

Meet the 15 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy

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03/05/2014

... Women are a fast-rising force in philanthropy. More women are making their own fortunes than ever before and ... philanthropy, bringing people together to mobilize huge resources for different causes. Too...

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Gender Justice

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OSF Backed Nonprofit Helping India Move to a Low-Carbon Energy Economy

Release Date:

11/03/2014

... goals as well as development needs with finite financial resources , moving to a low-carbon economy can help it ... which will result in a saving of USD 600 billion for more productive investments, says CPI...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Americans’ Salaries Can’t Keep Up With Rising Medical Costs

Release Date:

10/26/2016

... Keep Up With Rising Medical Costs Americans are spending more of their paychecks on health insurance because stagnant ...

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Health

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Claudia Juech, Associate Vice President & Managing Director, Answers “5 Questions” in PND

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05/10/2017

... activities, an approach the foundation is using to bring more diverse voices into the earliest stages of its work, ... evidence, and ultimately do the most good with the resources it has. . . Rockefeller...

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USAID Announces Over $90 Million In Additional Humanitarian Assistance To Ethiopia

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... Government to demonstrate greater leadership and invest more resources to combat a worsening humanitarian crisis. . . ...

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20 Apr 2017

What is at Stake in the Global Refugee Crisis? – A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, April 20, 2017 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... and will be granted on a first come, first served basis.* More people than any other time in history have been forced ... beyond has displaced 65 million people around the globe. More than half of recognized...

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Wallace Foundation Launches 'Building New Audiences for Sustainability' Initiative

Release Date:

04/16/2015

... A frequent scapegoat is the lack of arts education in the schools , which implies that if people were only better ... 50s, and therefore DID have the benefit of arts education. More immediate culprits, to my...

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Arts

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New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

03/07/2016

... 1, those with high levels of the biomarker PRAME mRNA were more likely to metastasize than those with low levels of ... indicating that patients with this biomarker be monitored more closely for metastatic...

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