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How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India

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09/18/2017

How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India As of 2017, 1.3 billion people around the world do not have access to electricity. Of those, 290 million men, women, and...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Opinion: The Risky Consequences Of Inclusionary Housing At Brooklyn’s Pfizer Site

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09/19/2017

... Risky Consequences Of Inclusionary Housing At Brooklyn’ s Pfizer Site The power to zone is a key mechanism New York City has to leverage ... To take advantage of that power...

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Housing and Homelessness

The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

... Are Rethinking Mealtime The day before students returned to class this month, New York City officials announced that ... and state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill to address school meal debt —...

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Education

Food Systems

If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk

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09/21/2017

If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’ s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk Last Tuesday, ... Committee announced it had reached a bipartisan agreement to extend funding for the national Children’...

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The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’s Hard.

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09/21/2017

The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’ s Hard. In 2003, health care policy makers in Massachusetts ... Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That...

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Pound Foolish

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious food. For nearly four decades, the food bank ... United States distribute millions of tons of provisions to more than 46 million people,...

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Food Systems

Bemoaning Budget Cuts, Health Care Navigators Say Feds Don't Get It

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09/22/2017

... bang for the buck, sometimes costing thousands of dollars to sign up each customer. So it is cutting their funding, ... a computer. Many don't understand insurance lingo — what' s a deductible,...

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Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island

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09/26/2017

Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island New York City was ... in opioid-related overdoses last summer when the city’ s special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget G. Brennan, decided ... of...

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NY State Health: Medicare Snapshot - Stories from the Helpline - Improving New York State Access to Medicare Savings Programs

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09/26/2017

... from the Helpline - Improving New York State Access to Medicare Savings Programs Half of all New Yorkers with ... adults and people with disabilities need financial help to maximize their Medicare coverage...

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New York Health Foundation

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Weinberg Foundation Approves $500,000 in Emergency Funding to Those Affected by Hurricane Irma in Florida

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09/27/2017

Weinberg Foundation Approves $500,000 in Emergency Funding to Those Affected by Hurricane Irma in Florida The Weinberg ... Hurricane Irma," said Rachel Garbow Monroe, the Foundation' s President and CEO...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Disaster Relief

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After School Stabbing, Parents Ask: Where Were Metal Detectors?

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09/28/2017

... de Blasio. “At the end of the day, de Blasio, you need to do something about those metal detectors in these schools ... school kids,” said Tammy Carey, a mother who hurried to the building in the West Farms...

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Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows

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10/02/2017

... by the Nationwide Retirement Institute (NRI). Here' s another major worry: Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of future and recent retirees are concerned about cuts to Social Security under the Trump...

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Economic Security

UJA-Federation of New York Receives $20 Million Gift

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10/02/2017

... announced a $20 million legacy gift from the Jack S . & Shirley M. Silver Foundation in support of the ... Centennial Signature Initiative. The gift will be used to help revitalize the infrastructure of the...

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Many Young Adults With Autism Also Have Mental Health Issues

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10/03/2017

... take for granted. "Relationships are so much harder to understand or initiate when by default you don't really ... says. Young adults on the autism spectrum are more likely to also have been...

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In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... Hurricane Harvey caused devastating flooding at Houston’ s Alley Theatre, actors and production staff were ... at a University of Houston venue. The team members needed to see their hard work realized, says...

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

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10/13/2017

... in Private. Why Not in Public? Real male allies tend to have three things in common as agents of organizational ... change. Debra Meyerson and Megan Tompkins’ s research, using the National Science Foundation...

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Gender Justice

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Issues Consensus Report On Diabetes In Association With The ADA

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11/22/2017

... (HbA1C) testing, which provides a measurement of a person' s mean blood glucose levels over the past three months. HbA1C ... However, despite the tremendous value of the HbA1C to clinical management,...

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

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12/11/2017

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have A survey, produced by ... their counterparts in other countries and are more likely to go without needed health care...

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Aging