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Rockefeller Foundation Joins Effort to Curb Hotel Food Waste

Release Date:

03/24/2017

... private individuals as its impact on both environmental health , food security as well as bottom lines — companies ... invest in reducing food waste can expect a 14:1 ROI — are increasingly researched and...

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Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

Release Date:

04/25/2017

... economy would be much stronger if barriers in education, health and housing that adversely affect black residents are eliminated. About 200 people gathered at the Long Island ...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

Release Date:

04/27/2017

... students exposure to strategies, skills and programs that are being successfully implemented in settings they are likely to encounter in the field. With the CiA ... engagement and the quality of compassionate...

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JPMorgan Chase and NY Community Trust Partner to Bring Middle-Skills Jobs Training

Release Date:

05/10/2017

... Bronx to New York City employers in three key sectors — health care, information technology, and transportation, ...

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The New York Community Trust

Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries

Release Date:

05/12/2017

... at beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs by income and health status. More than one-fourth of all Medicare ... with multiple chronic conditions or functional limitations are at significant financial risk. Overall...

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Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting

Release Date:

06/05/2017

... social justice issues such as the environment, global health , human rights, emerging democracies, freedom of ... religious affairs. Co-founders of the Boston-based Project are Charles Sennott, who also co-...

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Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

Release Date:

06/14/2017

... influence and credibility. And organizations, arguably, are more likely to have the capacity to disseminate and ... to scientific innovation, individuals, not organizations, are paramount, according to the...

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Rita Allen Foundation

Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color

Release Date:

06/21/2017

... proposed draconian cuts to the nation’s most effective health , nutrition, education, and disability programs, ...

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

Release Date:

07/12/2017

... Become Obese Children Infants born with a high birthweight are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from ... babies early on to prevent the onset of obesity and the health problems it...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

Release Date:

07/25/2017

... Program. The study also notes superior maternal mental health and parenting attitudes among the parents. “This new ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... Advances: Seven Indicators of New York’s Economic Health .” The Census Bureau found that real median family ...

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High-Level UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... partners, the event explored how smart investments in health , empowerment, education and employment can reduce ... force for development, will ensure African nations are able to reap significant dividends over...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ’s Malaria Research Institute discovered a strain of ...

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Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... Falls, warning they still pose a serious threat to public health . The EPA recently abandoned cleanup activities to ... byproducts from prior industrial uses. The three sites are a parking lot at a bowling...

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Rockefeller Foundation Research Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... nations says kids whose watersheds have greater tree cover are less likely to experience diarrheal disease, the second ... the connection between watershed quality and individual health outcomes of children at...

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Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants

Release Date:

11/17/2017

... $1.6 million in funding to seven projects to improve the health of vulnerable populations. The two new grant programs ...

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Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

Release Date:

12/11/2017

... were sicker than their counterparts in other countries and are more likely to go without needed health care because of costs. Why should this be? For one thing, Americans are more likely to...

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Aging

Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

“Arabella Advisors Partners with Fannie Mae to Announce Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge”

Release Date:

12/20/2017

... to increase housing opportunities across the country that are safe, sustainable, and affordable,” said Jeffery ... Vice President and Head of Multifamily, Fannie Mae. “We are excited to collaborate with new...

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RFPs Etc

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Community Development

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Arabella Advisors

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria

Release Date:

02/16/2018

... Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health report successes for highly promising strategies ... nets and insecticide, is to modify the mosquitoes so they are no longer capable of...

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Arcus Foundation, Casey Family Programs and Other Funders Support Voices of Youth Count

Release Date:

04/27/2018

... of Youth Count New Chapin Hall brief shows LGBTQ youth who are homeless experience high levels of trauma, assault, early ... vulnerability of LGBTQ youth in our country today. They are at higher risk both...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Arcus Foundation

Casey Family Programs

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