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New United Hospital Fund Report Identifies NYC Neighborhoods Where Medicaid Might Better Support Members’ Health by Addressing Housing Insecurity

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07/26/2018

... throughout New York City where Medicaid might improve access to health care, and health outcomes, for thousands of ... with higher rates of emergency department (ED) use, more frequent hospital admissions, and...

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Health

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United Hospital Fund and New York State Health Foundation Release New Report: Difficult Decisions About Post-Acute Care and Why They Matter

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11/19/2018

United Hospital Fund (UHF) conducted a year-long inquiry, supported by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), to better understand why hospital discharge planning can fall short despite well-intentioned efforts by hospital staff, and...

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New York Health Foundation

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American Cities Lead the Way Amongst 25 Climate Change Projects Competing to be C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards 2017 Winners

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09/18/2017

... and innovative efforts by mayors of the world’s great cities to tackle climate change. The fifth-annual C40 ... continent, and the C40 Awards are a chance to highlight great ideas and help them spread.” “The...

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Open Society Foundations Appoint Gail Aidinoff Scovell as General Counsel

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07/01/2013

... from education to arts to tax law, and her reputation as a great team builder make Gail Scovell the perfect candidate ...

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Sandy support from institutions underwhelms

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10/25/2013

... the nonprofit said the total for Sandy will rise as more donors publicly report their giving. Even so, it seems ...

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Disaster Relief

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Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen

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04/15/2015

... Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen For more than a decade now, the United States has been using ... drones to secretly kill suspected terrorists in Yemen. The public knows very little about these...

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NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal

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07/06/2015

... vehicle that leverages private funding to finance public services — the Adolescent Behavioral Learning ... 18-year-olds who entered Rikers in 2013 by 10 percent or more , the program, which will be discontinued...

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Three Ways Ford Foundation's Shift To Inequality Will Affect Nonprofits Everywhere

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05/24/2016

... incentivizes other funders to approach inequality with more urgency, especially considering Ford Foundation’s ... Nonprofit Council discuss what Ford Foundation’s public shift to inequality means for the...

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Economic Security

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Rockefeller Assists Global Resilience Partnership With New Ideas In Flood Risk Management

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05/24/2016

... upwards of 250 million people each year, causing more economic and human losses than any other kind of natural ... has teamed up with the Global Resilience Partnership, a public -private initiative spearheaded...

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Ford Foundation's Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation' Article on Future of Philanthropy

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07/21/2016

... old. Since its inception, both donors and the larger public have debated how individuals can deploy their ... and its relationship to government and markets, was much more heated during the early 20th century...

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Century Foundation Report Criticizes Student Loan Guaranty Agencies

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09/29/2016

... these agencies are, at least in theory, committed to the public interest. But keeping them aligned with the needs of ... mirror, what should happen with the endowments of more than $5 billion they have amassed...

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Education

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Supported by Ford Foundation, GenForward Poll Shows Clinton’s Edge With Young People Crosses Racial Lines

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10/25/2016

... Lines Young Americans across races and ethnicities are now more likely to support Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump for ... of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The...

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Civic Engagement

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Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer

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02/23/2017

... Atlassian, Box, Pure Storage, and Twillio all went public , earning billion dollar valuations. At the same ... to charity. Since the program launched over two years ago, more than 1,300 companies in 38...

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Sloan Foundation-Supported Poll Finds Blacks Less Likely to Have Enough for Retirement

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05/18/2017

... a new poll found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey also found that African- ... accounts. The survey shows older white Americans are also more likely to collect Social...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Traces of Crime: How New York’s DNA Techniques Became Tainted

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09/05/2017

... went beyond standard practice at the F.B.I. and other public labs, for making identifications from DNA samples that were tiny or that contained a mix of more than one person’s genetic material. As its...

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Justice Reform

NYC Councilman to Propose Free Babysitting for Community Meetings

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09/20/2017

... New York City’s growing government may soon add one more service to the mix: free child care. The city would offer free babysitting at public hearings and community-board meetings under new ...

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Children, Youth and Families

With Federal Cuts to Hospitals, Cuomo Suggests New York City Step Up

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10/03/2017

... Sunday, adding stress to the state’s already overworked public health care system. The cut came as a result of a lack ... Care Act, those funds were supposed to be reduced as more patients received insurance...

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Closing Space for Open Society

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05/17/2018

... and visible statement, but it is only one small part of a more complex story about how a multibillion dollar global ...

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Open Society Foundations President Names Nicole Wilett as New Chief of Staff

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07/16/2019

... position, Wilett will lead the Foundations’ work on public policy and advocacy, and advise the president on new ... the world has made the work of our staff and grantees more urgent than ever. I look forward...

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