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When a Company Is Making Money From the Opioid Crisis

Release Date:

09/07/2017

... Her baby, like her other children, was removed from her care , becoming one more in a wave of children flooding child -services agencies. The crisis can be attributed to many ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Health

New Study, Supported By The Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, Finds College Brings Significant Benefits to Single Mothers and Society

Release Date:

06/06/2018

... The analysis finds that investments in services such as child care and case management boost graduation, and if expanded, ...

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Education

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Jewish Foundation for Education of Women

New Study Funded in Part by Simons Foundation Study Hopes to Predict Autism Behaviors

Release Date:

11/26/2018

... son Ryan, 22, was diagnosed with autism at age 2. As a child , he skied, went swimming, rode bicycles and went on ...

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Top 5 Brooklyn Nonprofits Named Winners of Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Annual $100,000 Spark Prize

Release Date:

01/15/2019

... Campaign Against Hunger · Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation · Girls for Gender Equity ...

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Brooklyn Org

State-by-State Impact of Opioid Epidemic on Children - New Report from the United Hospital Fund

Release Date:

11/13/2019

... will reach $400 billion in additional spending on health care , special education, child welfare, and criminal justice. That figure does not ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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United Hospital Fund

Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion

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08/21/2017

... Growth, discusses how the credit-card company is utilizing resources and expertise from across its operations to address ... inequality "through the lens of financial inclusion." Two billion people...

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Economic Security

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Girl Scouts Accuse Boy Scouts of Recruiting Girls, Souring Century-Old Friendship

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... Century-Old Friendship Around the time of World War I, two organizations set out to mold young Americans into ... fissure in what had been an amicable relationship between two ubiquitous organizations. . ...

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Children, Youth and Families

Gender Justice

Research to Prevent Blindness-Supported Researchers Will Be Integral Part of Latest Effort Within NEI’s Audacious Goals Initiative

Release Date:

11/06/2018

... macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The two researchers comprising the Developing Cone-Dominant ... Awards (CDAs). The majority of team members on two other teams, Retinal Ganglion Cell Replacement...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

Patrick Gaspard, Open Society Foundations and Maria Torres Springer, Ford Foundation Named to NYC Fair Recovery Taskforce

Release Date:

04/26/2020

... Small Businesses Public Health and Health Care Arts, Culture, and Tourism Labor Nonprofits and Social ... Business Enterprises (MWBE) and community health care providers, and work with City officials and...

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Community Development

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Open Society Foundations

Ford Foundation

Borealis Philanthropy’s Fund for Trans Generations Moves $2.5 Million to Trans-Led Organizations

Release Date:

07/12/2022

... Philanthropy’s Fund for Trans Generations (FTG) proudly resources trans-led organizations that are building futures ... FTG grantee partners have led efforts to bring safety, resources , and healing to their...

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LGBTQ

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Borealis Philanthropy

Cary A. Kravet Joins the Board of United Hospital Fund

Release Date:

02/23/2015

... Wharton School of Business. He and his wife, Lisa, have two children. “We are pleased to welcome Cary Kravet to ... of business savvy, legal expertise, and volunteer health care leadership makes him an...

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Health

John A. Hartford Foundation Named One of Nation’s Top Funders Addressing Aging America

Release Date:

12/15/2017

... older Americans tend to be sicker and have less access to care than the elderly in other high-income countries, ... study backed by the Commonwealth Fund. Despite that, care for the elderly remains a low...

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Aging

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Hostos Food Studies Program is Creating Opportunities in the Bronx

Release Date:

10/07/2015

... , and, of course, PhilanthroPost . The program was two years in the making, and last month, the first official ... something from their background, or it’s something they care about – but the class transforms...

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Insights

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Education

Food Systems

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Simons Foundation Supports CUNY Graduate Center to Diversify Astrophysics Education

Release Date:

02/09/2022

... promising students lack the financial support and other resources to do so,” said Robin L. Garrell , president of ... students with a stipend for living costs as well as health care benefits. Students will...