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Release Date:

05/05/2014

The Commonwealth Fund launches the Breakthrough Health Care Opportunities ... care in the United States is not just expensive; it’ s world-class expensive, and unsustainably so. And although ... We’re simply not...

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Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions

Release Date:

06/03/2014

... with a focus on working with art objects. The grants will fund the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chicago Objects Study ... student access to works of art from the Art Institute' s permanent holdings and...

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Individual Market Insurance Premiums Grew 10 Percent Yearly Prior to Affordable Care Act

Release Date:

06/05/2014

... was enacted (2008-2010), according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The analysis, by Jonathan Gruber of the ...

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It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma

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06/09/2014

It’ s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma Writing in the ... David Blumenthal, president and CEO of the Commonwealth Fund , says that the United States needs "creative new ... ever longer lives."...

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NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Release Date:

06/11/2014

... Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods New York City' s Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food ... according to researchers at Columbia University' s School of International...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Tart, Goodwin Win Carnegie Writing Awards

Release Date:

06/30/2014

Under a program funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Donna Tartt won an award for fiction and Doris Kearns Goodwin won for nonfiction.

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Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal

Release Date:

08/14/2014

... New York, has received the Chern Medal, one of the world’ s most prestigious prizes in the field of mathematics. ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $45 Million for City Halls to Tackle Urban Issues

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08/20/2014

Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a new $45 million investment to boost the capacity of city halls to use innovation to tackle major challenges and improve urban life.

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Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane, President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, Dies at 91

Release Date:

08/27/2014

Philanthropist and civic leader Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane passed away on August 24, 2014. Sloane was President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children.

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Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality

Release Date:

10/07/2014

... Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality It' s always hard to pinpoint the role of philanthropy in ... legal across the United States, a trend that yesterday' s Supreme Court decision has...

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NYCT and Tiger Foundation Among Funders of Single-Sex Education

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10/28/2014

... Trust, the Carson Family Trust, the Charter School Growth Fund , and the two foundations of retired financier Julian ...

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Tiger Foundation

ASPCA Provides More than $9.1 Million in Grants through 3Q 2014

Release Date:

10/31/2014

... the following two distinctive initiatives: Lil BUB’ s BIG Fund for the ASPCA, a unique collaboration between the ASPCA ...

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Animal Welfare

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Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

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11/03/2014

... 2016. While the so-called spend-down of the foundation’ s assets includes plans for larger-than-normal grants and ...

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People with Health Insurance Still Can't Afford All the Care They Need

Release Date:

11/14/2014

... you need to look just beyond the cost of a health plan' s monthly premium to figure out your expected medical costs ... these out-of-pocket costs, according to the Commonwealth Fund Health Care...

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

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01/16/2015

... systems that could be vulnerable to attack. That’ s why Microsoft is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, ... share what we’ve learned from operating some the world’ s largest data centers,” says Rob...

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Technology & Innovation

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Ford Foundation Bets on Slow Food Movement to Help Global Poor

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01/23/2015

... Movement to Help Global Poor Mention "slow food" and it' s hard not to think of a more affluent crowd of foodies and ... ways about how and what they eat. In fact, though, that' s an unfair...

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Food Systems

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Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Announces Initiative to Address "Invisible Wounds of War"

Release Date:

02/12/2015

... after injury (MST), among others. The partnership will fund 20 Bob Woodruff Foundation-Jonas Nursing Scholars ... heart-wrenching issues affecting many of our nation’ s heroes. Jonas Center for Nursing and...