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Westchester Community Foundation Welcomes Millie Hernandez Becker, Dr. Jennifer Cruz to Advisory Board

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05/02/2023

... she leads clinical operations providing integrated mental health services, school-based mental health programs and clinics, evidence-based treatment for ... with anxiety, and programs improving access to...

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19 Sep 2019

Secure Jobs: A Holistic Approach to Increasing Income and Stabilizing Housing - A Webinar Hosted by Funders Together to End Homelessness

Thursday, September 19, 2019 -

2:30pm to 3:45pm

... the issues at the intersection of employment and housing. What began as a three-year demonstration pilot, is about to ... next iteration of these efforts, set to launch this fall What role funders can explore...

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09 Mar 2021

Next Level Programs and Policies to Close the Wealth Gap - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

... gap has grown wider, not closed. Join us to discuss what grantmakers are doing to address the failure to close the racial wealth ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Invests in Venture to Install 1.3 Gigawatts of Renewable Electricity across Africa by 2018

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01/20/2017

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund invested in the Lekela Power platform -- a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. and Actis LLP that plans to install more than 1.3 gigawatts of renewable electricity across Africa by 2018.

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Weinberg Foundation announces communications leadership transition

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05/19/2022

Current Chief Communications Officer Craig Demchak will retire from the Weinberg Foundation effective October 31, 2022.

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs

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07/28/2014

... to prevent "eye-popping" prices of new drugs from driving health care costs so high that other societal needs suffer, ... This would create huge new challenges in balancing high health care costs...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Mitchell J. Blutt, M.D., Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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08/01/2014

... and chief executive officer of the New York–based health care investment firm Consonance Capital, has been ... of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine, its medical school and health system. In addition, he has...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients

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02/24/2016

... can prompt patients to be more active in their own health and healthcare, and greater patient engagement can ... that was further validated by researchers at Geisinger Health System in a rigorous scientific...

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Paula Luff Named New Director of Sustainability & Impact at the Inherent Group

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03/07/2017

... led the teams that developed flagship programs in global health for the company and its foundation. She also represented Pfizer on philanthropy and global health issues with the media, public officials, bi-...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants $1.3 Million to Support Recovery and Resilience for Puerto Rico's Underserved Healthcare Centers

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08/02/2018

... critical healthcare centers and hospitals. Remote areas are hardest hit by unreliable power, including unexpected ... underserved communities continue to provide essential health services during outages, as...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Disaster Relief

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Supported by The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New Report Finds Even Light Drinking Increases Risk of Death

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10/03/2018

... Increases Risk of Death Drinking a daily glass of wine for health reasons may not be so healthy after all, suggests a ... even have been some studies suggesting it can improve health ," said first author...

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11 Apr 2018

Moving Beyond Financial Education: A Grantmaker's Guide to Investing in Impactful Financial Capability Programs - Webinar

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... "knowledge is power" when it comes to increasing financial health . Now we have ample evidence that financial education ... alone is not powerful enough to change behavior. So, what works? Join us,...

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How We're Addressing the Overhead Fiction

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11/24/2015

... the Ford Foundation Forward blueprint, the foundation's plan for changes in its culture, programs and assets. It is ... history of the Ford Foundation has been our investing in what I think of as the...

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06 Feb 2018

Homelessness Innovations: Are Known Solutions Informing NYC’s Response to Youth Homelessness?

Tuesday, February 6, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... every night . At least 23,000 of the City’s homeless are children and roughly 3,000 are unaccompanied youth. In Houston, the philanthropic ... dedicate themselves to addressing this pressing public ...

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22 May 2018

Education and Homelessness - Working Together for Students Experiencing Homelessness (Part 1 of 2) - A Webinar

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Across the country, student homelessness is rising. Despite increasing numbers, these students – as well as the school liaisons and state coordinators who support them – report that student homelessness remains an invisible and extremely disruptive...

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11 Jun 2018

Education and Homelessness - Working Together for Students Experiencing Homelessness (Part 2) - A Webinar

Monday, June 11, 2018 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

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Jordan Joseph serves as the Learning Services Manager at Philanthropy New York.

Bill de Blasio Says He’ll Build Upon Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative

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02/06/2014

Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he will build on Michael Bloomberg's and the Open Society Foundations' Young Men's Initiative supporting black and Latino men, reported The New York Observer.

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Applications Accepted for the William T. Grant Scholars Program

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03/13/2014

Applications are now being accepted for the William T. Grant Scholars ... early-career researchers from diverse disciplines who are seeking to further develop and broaden their expertise. ... success in conducting...

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