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Commonwealth Fund’s Biennial Health Insurance Survey Finds People with Medicaid Have Better Access to Health Care Than the Uninsured and Fewer Medical Bill Problems

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04/27/2017

... health insurer, covering more than 70 million people, about 12 million of whom enrolled when 31 states and the ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

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07/06/2017

... is described in a July 6 paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More detailed information about the study is available online... Alfred P. Sloan ...

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Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

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07/06/2017

... Tillerson's former employer, ExxonMobil, misled investors about the impact of climate change. Schneiderman's office .....

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... pack warnings and advertising bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’s population ... the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control into their national tobacco control...

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How Many Big Storms Before People Abandon Coastal Cities?

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10/02/2017

... billion people live within 60 miles of a coastline, with about 10 percent of the population living in coastal areas ...

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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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10/02/2017

... at his favorite restaurant: KFC. Mr. Awaitey first learned about the fried chicken chain on Facebook. The “finger ... with pockets of extreme poverty, has enjoyed unprecedented national prosperity in the last...

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Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

... STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students Traveling south about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Encourages Donors to Give Where They Live with $100,000 Match

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11/20/2017

... of Commerce, and sponsored by TD Bank with support from National Grid. To encourage Brooklyn residents to give where they live and learn about often overlooked local nonprofits, Brooklyn Community ...

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Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

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02/21/2018

... through a $12 billion endowment that includes committing about $500 million a year in grants to nonprofit ... Company tycoon Henry Ford and his son Edsel, supports national and international efforts aimed at...

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Daggett Announces Retirement from Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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06/07/2018

... demographics and needs of the state. “I am very excited about the strategic plan, and believe it will enable Dodge to ... in the state. In addition, out of concern for the national dramatic downsizing and...

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Arcus Grantee, Dr. Kristina Olson, Receives Prestigious Honor

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10/23/2018

... research represents the first of its kind large-scale national study about the experiences of trans and gender nonconforming ...

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Commonwealth Fund Launches A New Tool for Comparing ‘Medicare for All’ Plans

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03/15/2019

... health care coverage and access, writes. To find out more about those nuances and the range of private and public ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches #Solvable

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06/12/2019

... 2030. We encourage you to watch and listen to learn more about how many of today’s biggest challenges are ...

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New Race to Lead Survey Launches Today

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07/17/2019

... Today In 2016, the Building Movement Project conducted a national survey on race and leadership in nonprofits. The ... is open to anyone working for pay in the sector and takes about 25 minutes to fill out...

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The Whiting Foundation Announces New Grants for Public Humanities Projects Expanding Our Understanding of History and Culture

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05/25/2022

... Whiting Public Engagement Program (WPEP) is a distinctive national grant founded to champion the public humanities in ...

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A Road Less Traveled….

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11/01/2011

... in the most direct way. We are often knowledgeable about the issues and rely on nonprofit organizations to do ... “ The Juvenile Justice System needs to be more open about how to handle youth that are involved...

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ACHA Would Break Apart What Is Working in New York

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05/25/2017

... access to care for millions but also to guide the use of resources and control health care cost growth. Whether in ... this bill, the health of many New Yorkers, and other Americans , hangs in the balance. ACHA...

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New York State Health Foundation Survey Reports 92% of Newly Insured Obamacare Users are Happy with Coverage

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11/11/2014

The majority of New Yorkers have been satisfied with coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act.

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Funders Should Invest in Health Programs to End Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs

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09/15/2016

... wondered the following: Why didn’t my community have the resources to help people when they were in trouble? ... criminalizing people for poverty, and we need to divert resources from our criminal justice...

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