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Open Society Foundations Award $5 Million Challenge Grant To Strengthen Innocence Project

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07/09/2014

A $5 million challenge grant from The Open Society Foundations will help the Innocence Project's efforts to establish a $20 million reserve fund.

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Weinberg Foundation Announces Additional $5 Million to Expand and Strengthen Baltimore Library Project

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12/10/2020

The Weinberg Foundation today announced an additional $5 million in funding to support the Baltimore Elementary and Middle School Library Project.

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12 Nov 2015

Families Funding Change: How Social Justice Giving Honors Our Roots and Strengthens Communities - Webinar

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12:00pm to 1:30pm

Join us in person or by webinar to explore strategies family foundations and donor advised funds can take to engage more deeply in grantmaking that builds toward long-term social change.

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Sanctuary City Policies Strengthened by Oakland, Bars Any City Employee From Cooperating With ICE

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01/19/2018

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John A. Hartford Foundation Supports Report on Disconnect Between Docs and Patients On Advance Planning

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12/08/2016

While clinicians said talking with patients about end-of-life decisions early was important, patients stated that healthcare providers generally failed to do so effectively, according to a new report from a trio of healthcare foundations.

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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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The Commonwealth Fund Outlines 10 Recommendations for Policymakers Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs

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01/20/2017

In 2014, the New York–based Commonwealth Fund established the International Experts Working Group on Patients with Complex Needs through a grant to the London School of Economics and Political Science. The group’s purpose was to outline the...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Funds New Smartphone Application to Detect Vision Problems in Young Patients

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11/05/2014

The new app takes images of hard-to-see areas of the back of the eye.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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

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03/07/2016

New study published in Clinical Cancer Research details the discovery of a biomarker that puts patients at a higher risk for metastasis of uveal melanoma.

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Supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation, Study Shows Alzheimer’s Patients Have Lower Perception of Pain

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07/13/2016

People with Alzheimer’s disease don’t perceive pain as readily as healthy older adults, and this may lead to delays and underreporting of pain.

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United Hospital Fund Releases Report Finding Wide Variation in Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescribing for NYS Medicaid Patients

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06/22/2018

... found wide variations in prescribing rates based on patient age, gender, race/ethnicity, county of residence, and ...

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10 of Every 11 Psychiatric Patients Housed by the Government Are Incarcerated. Here’s What This Crisis Looks Like From the Inside

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06/07/2018

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Paging Dr. Facebook: How the Social Network Could Help Doctors Screen Patients for Depression

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10/16/2018

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Nonprofit Helping Low-Income Patients Describes Itself As ‘Match.com Meets the Peace Corps’

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10/18/2018

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Giving Patients a Voice in Their Mental Health Care Before They’re Too Ill to Have a Say

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12/04/2018

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Jerome Foundation, United Memorial Medical Center Seek Nominations for Health and Humanitarian Award

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08/15/2016

Jerome Foundation, United Memorial Medical Center Seek Nominations for Health and Humanitarian ... Award The Jerome Foundation and United Memorial Medical Center Foundation are jointly seeking nominations for .....

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Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017

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07/06/2017

Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017 ... groups has pumped some $85,000 into the school’s Medical Scholars Pipeline Program, which sows the seeds of .....

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Commonwealth Fund Research Shows Elderly in U.S. Have Trouble Paying Medical Bills

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11/21/2014

... Fund Research Shows Elderly in U.S. Have Trouble Paying Medical Bills The Commonwealth Fund surveyed older adults ... percentage of older adults who have trouble paying their medical bills. Making things even...

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